CD Projekt CEO says Polaris 'is Witcher 4,' company quickly takes it back

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They finally said it out loud.

This was actually brought to my attention by a colleague at

, who wanted to double-check with me that Kiciński was in fact saying"Witcher 4," and not, maybe,"Witcher,You can hear it for yourself in this time-stampedTo be clear, this isn't big news about a fourth Witcher game. We've known about that for a year now, and despite CD Projekt's protests we've been calling it Witcher 4 all along.

The new game may not be Witcher 4 when it finally launches. It's still in the early stages of development, and a full and proper title has not been formally announced. It could end up as The Witcher: Infinite, or The Witchers, or Witcher: Novigrad City, or something equally fanciful and unlikely. And in fact, CD Projekt described Kiciński's statement as"a slip of the tongue" in an email sent to PC Gamer.

"Polaris will be the first game in a new Witcher saga," a CD Projekt rep said."The saga will consist of three games. The official name of this project is Polaris." That's fair enough from an internal development standpoint. Nothing has changed, on paper at least, and Polaris it remains for now. But we all heard it, and frankly it was nice that someone at CD Projekt finally said it out loud: The Witcher 4 is coming.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.

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Holy shit. An article that isn't the Woke of Us.

Check this game 😍

...Well. That's a bit odd. It's like trying to say it isn't publicly supposed to be it but is. Or trying to say it's just oriented like the main games in structure, but it's anywhere related to the adventures of Geralt like we know it personally.

What took them so long?! canitnow really

No more Witcher games please, enough is enough

the one store front one sounds like GOG is going and its gonna be epic games store, considering they are using unreal engine instead of the RED engine.

I lol'd

Witcher 4 with Ciri as main character.

Of course, and Orion is Cyberpunk 2

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