- CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski shared an update on the studio’s third franchise. hadar
- According to him, work on the project is “progressing dynamically.”
- Nowakowski also provided an update on The witcher 4the development
CD Projekt Red has provided a new update on The witcher 4The development and progress of its mysterious third franchise, codenamed hadar.
In its annual earnings call, CDPR Co-CEO Michał Nowakowski shared “an important development update” regarding Hadar and confirmed that work on the project is “progressing dynamically and the team has laid the foundations for this completely new intellectual property.”
“We have now clearly defined the distinctive features of this world and established key pillars that will not only provide the foundation for the game itself, but also, potentially, for other future products,” Nowakowski said.
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“Of course, this does not mean the end of work on the IP itself, which will naturally continue to evolve and develop on many fronts over time. The team is now actively designing specific elements that could be included in the game. We are creating multiple prototypes and implementing them directly in Unreal Engine. This allows us to test live and verify how selected mechanics and game elements may work.”
CDPR first announced the Hadar project in 2022, which the studio calls a new series set in an original universe, but development updates have been quiet until today.
Nowakowski mentioned that as of the end of February 2026, it had over 900 developers on board, meaning it gained over 220 developers over the past year.
A graph shows that 26 people were working at Hadar at the end of February this year (thanks, GameSpot).
The co-CEO also shared an update on The witcher 4which supposedly won’t be released until after 2027. Nowakowski said that compared to October 2025, most of the new employees are now part of the team working on the game, “where they help improve the quality and extend the solutions presented in the Unreal Fest tech demo throughout the game.”
“Having gained greater visibility into the scope of the game, we are strengthening our internal teams while recruiting top talent to provide long-term support in the delivery of both. The witcher 4 and our future titles,” he said.
“Of course, these staffing figures only reflect the projects we are developing internally. They do not include projects we do in cooperation with our external partners, including the one we are working on with Fool’s Theory.” Nowakowski refers to the fool theory. witcher 1 redo.
CDPR is also developing the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, which now has 149 developers working on it.
In addition to a new trilogy of sorcerer games that the studio wants to release within six years, rumors have circulated for months that a third expansion will be released for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt It will arrive this year.
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