CD Projekt has confirmed that the work it did on a new Witcher game to give it a “new framework” has now been completed. In a regulatory filing, CD Projekt said this work on Project Sirius–the codename for the new game–has now been completed. The game is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based developer owned by CD Projekt.
We still don’t know anything about what the “new framework” is or why it needed to be undertaken. Game development is a highly iterative process, so it’s not surprising that the game underwent some changes. What is more notable is that CD Projekt made these changes public by way of a legal filing due to the financial impact of the situation.
CD Projekt Red originally said the value of expenses incurred from implementing the “new framework” came to 33.4 million PLN ($7.6 million USD) for 2022 and 9.5 million PLN ($2.2 million USD) for January and February 2023. This comes out to 42.9 million PLN, or $9.7 million USD.