UPDATE 12TH AUGUST 5.20PM: CD Projekt Purple has confirmed the layoffs to Eurogamer.
“We adjusted the dimensions of the Sirius workforce to replicate the challenge’s wants at this stage of growth,” the corporate stated. “Consequently, 4 folks in Boston and 5 in Warsaw are leaving the corporate, whereas 9 others have been invited to inner recruitment processes for potential roles on different CD Projekt Purple initiatives.”
Our ideas are with the folks affected.
ORIGINAL STORY 12TH AUGUST 4.18PM: CD Projekt Purple has reportedly laid off 9 folks engaged on its mysterious multiplayer-linked Witcher recreation Undertaking Sirius, and stated an additional 9 are to be reshuffled to different groups internally.
Kotaku broke the information this afternoon, citing an unnamed supply’s claims a “broader shift in growth technique” is the explanation for the layoffs. CD Projekt Purple famous in a monetary report in Might that there have been 83 folks engaged on Sirius, so ought to these layoffs be true, it nonetheless leaves a considerable workforce engaged on it.
Undertaking Sirius is a recreation that is by no means absolutely become visible. Sirius was introduced alongside a raft of different initiatives – almost all of which have correct names now, relatively than codenames – again in 2022. Sirius was described as a Witcher spin-off that would come with a multiplayer factor in addition to single-player, and it was in growth at then-external studio Molasses Flood.
Nevertheless, Sirius was rebooted the next yr, after CDPR re-evaluated “the scope and industrial potential of the unique idea”. Then in 2025, CDPR acquired Molasses Flood to work on the sport internally.
Earlier this yr, Sirius gave the impression to be gaining momentum, with CDPR hiring a Future 2 and Guild Wars 2 author to work on the sport. At across the identical time, a second Witcher multiplayer challenge – a free-to-play cellular recreation – was reported to be in growth.
The majority of CD Projekt Purple is presently at work on The Witcher 4, however a collaboration with Idiot’s Idea – a studio made up of former CDPR builders – will carry us a Witcher 3 growth referred to as Songs of the Previous earlier than that, someday subsequent yr. A sequel to Cyberpunk can also be in growth.
Eurogamer has contacted CD Projekt Purple for remark.