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CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 4 will be a 'more console-first development'

But also: "Because we're CDPR, we always like to push PCs to the limit."

PC Gamer

I just experienced super-smooth Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra settings on a Mac, but the developers say there’s more to ‘squeeze out’ of Apple Silicon

How CD Projekt RED turned a MacBook Pro into a gaming laptop for Cyberpunk 2077

TechRadar

Years before becoming The Witcher 4's narrative director, Philipp Weber's first job at CDPR was spending days throwing quest ideas into a GDoc for The Witcher 3

Things were "a little bit vibe-based"

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"Suddenly a lot of people who loved Skyrim started paying attention to The Witcher 3": CDPR says an old E3 demo was a turning point for its defining RPG

A whole new world

GamesRadar

The Witcher 4 is coming together with the same "scrappy energy" CDPR used to get The Witcher 3 over the line: "Get it done. Do it dirty"

"Do it the way we used to do it!"

GamesRadar

With Oblivion Remastered's first patch looming, I wish Bethesda had taken a leaf from CDPR's book and straight-up incorporated popular mods at launch

Gotta be better than reinventing the wheel, no?

PC Gamer

The Witcher 3 once had a suicide mission ending 'inspired by Mass Effect 2,' a quest where Geralt joined the Wild Hunt, and a version of its vampire-focused Blood and Wine DLC without vampires

There are more than a few things on the cutting room floor.

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'What if Blade was a witcher?' is the scary question asked as Blood of Dawnwalker from former CDPR devs announces 2026 release

How gruff can a protagonist get? Scientists aim to find out.

PC Gamer

CDPR can't help itself, channels Terraria with yet another Cyberpunk 2077 update coming this month: "We have been cooking for you in secret for a bit"

Cyberpunk 2 associate game director Pawel Sasko is "taking care of the update personally"

GamesRadar

Witcher 4’s Unreal Engine demo looks promising—but I fear a repeat of a Cyberpunk 2077 situation

Ambitions and promises plagued CDPR's past releases, and I fear if Witcher 4 isn't another case disappointment.

Destructoid

How The Witcher 4's "infinite forest" is being built one branch at a time using Unreal Engine 5.6

I speak to Epic Games and CD Projekt Red to discover if this is more than a demo.

Creative Bloq

The Witcher 4 dev says the tools behind its PS5 tech demo "unlock me as an artist," and that CDPR will use them "to create much bigger things" in future

"You can be more expressive, you can be more playful, you can try to dream a little bit more"

GamesRadar

Witcher 4 tech demo shows swapping to Unreal Engine was "worth it," CDPR says, and that "it's not like we lost things because of the transition" away from Cyberpunk 2077's RED Engine

"Obviously, it was a well-thought-out decision to move over"

GamesRadar

The Witcher 4 tech demo has me hyped for a big budget open world for the first time in years—but not because of the Unreal graphics

Thank god, they're making open worlds with character again.

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CDPR says Ciri's face in the new Witcher 4 trailer is "a direct copy of The Witcher 3 model" despite "two subtle changes"

Ciri's face is "the same character model" from the 2024 Witcher 4 trailer

PC Gamer

The Witcher 4's leafy glory is all down to Epic's Nanite Foliage, and largely so is the fact it can run ray-traced at 60 fps on a lowly PS5

That level of performance on an aging console suggests good things for the PC version.

GamesRadar

The Witcher 4 is targeting 60 FPS on current-gen consoles and will "bring in a new generation of open-world RPGs" with its Unreal Engine 5 tech, CDPR says

The Witcher 4 Unreal showcase was running on a standard PS5 with raytracing

PC Gamer

We just got a look at someone actually playing The Witcher 4 as CDPR promises 'the most immersive and ambitious open world Witcher game ever'

Our witcheress is all grown up.

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New The Witcher 4 screenshots show Ciri in a beautiful, bustling location, and a truly horrible monster

The Witcher 4 already looks astounding

GamesRadar

The Witcher 4 first look - State of Unreal 2025 Live Coverage

CD Projekt Red will play a major part in today's stream

GamesRadar

The Witcher 3 devs "toyed with" making Geralt drown if he tried to swim with his armor on: "Immersive or just a bit too realistic?"

Instead, you'd have to "strip down" at every shoreline on The Continent

GamesRadar

CDPR "thought it was going to be more of a challenge" porting Cyberpunk 2077 to Nintendo Switch 2, but beefier specs and microSD made it "surprisingly fast"

The future is now, samurai

GamesRadar

With The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2 and way more on the horizon, having multiple projects on the go gives CDPR "more opportunities to be more creative"

"This is the most exciting part of our business."

GamesRadar

CDPR devs are so locked into The Witcher 4 that they're apparently using its new control scheme by accident while playing other games

"I'm actually using Witcher 4 controls...spoiler"

GamesRadar

CDPR boss tells The Witcher 4 hopefuls to "keep calm" as Summer Game Fest hype builds: "Remember that next week we are launching Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on Nintendo Switch 2"

The "Let's go" crowd is suddenly saying "Oh no"

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