{"id":12869,"date":"2026-08-12T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:21:15","slug":"cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Confirms Layoffs on The Witcher Multiplayer Spin-Off, Issues Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">CD Projekt has confirmed layoffs on The Witcher multiplayer spin-off, codenamed Project Sirius.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">First reported by Kotaku, nine staff working on the game were cut. In a statement issued to IGN, CD Projekt confirmed four staff in its Boston office and five in its Warsaw headquarters lost their jobs, with nine others told they could apply for potential roles on other projects. As of April 30, Project Sirius had 83 staff working on it. That number is now presumably closer to 60.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cWe adjusted the size of the Sirius team to reflect the project\u2019s needs at this stage of development,\u201d CD Projekt said. As a result, four people in Boston and five in Warsaw are leaving the company, while nine others have been invited to internal recruitment processes for potential roles on other CD Projekt Red projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Every CD Projekt Red Game In Development<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">CD Projekt brought Boston-based The Flame in the Flood developer The Molasses Flood into the fold to make Sirius back in 2021, but it has suffered difficulties in the years since. Indeed, this isn\u2019t the first time it\u2019s had layoffs. In 2023, CD Projekt said Sirius had a &#8220;new framework&#8221; after restarting development. Layoffs followed.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">There is no suggestion today that Project Sirius is canceled, but it is now nearly four years since it was announced and CD Projekt has yet to show anything of the game. Meanwhile, the company is hard at work on The Witcher 4 (513 staff), Cyberpunk 2 (163 staff), and new IP Project Hadar (24 staff). There\u2019s also a The Witcher 3 expansion coming next year and a remake of The Witcher 1.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">On top of that, CD Projekt has an extremely ambitious plan to launch The Witcher 4, The Witcher 5, and The Witcher 6 all in a six-year time period. It&#8217;s this plan which essentially rules out the possibility of expansions for The Witcher 4. And then there\u2019s Cyberpunk 2 to slot in at some point.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cd-projekt-confirms-layoffs-on-the-witcher-multiplayer-spin-off-issues-statement.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-12869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12871,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions\/12871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}