The name CD Projekt Red is one that carries weight in the gaming industry, or rather it did at one point. As the studio behind the phenomenally beloved The Witcher series, the company's reputation has sadly dipped since releasing Cyberpunk 2077 at the end of 2020, which has gone down as one of the most disastrous video game launches in recent history. That aside, the developer is still going strong, and to celebrate the fact that it's been in business since 2002, CDPR are offering discounts for its catalog of games.
In a recent post on Steam, CD Projekt Red has said that, starting next week, all of its games will be up for sale at reduced prices to commemorate being in business for 20 years. While technically the company was founded in 1994, it began life as a way of importing PC games into Poland, which didn't have a prominent gaming scene back then. It wasn't until 2002 that founders Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński set up a development department, with the team looking to do an adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy books, which would become 2007's The Witcher.
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It's this series that gave CDPR its reputation over the years, with Cyberpunk being a departure from the antics of Geralt of Rivia. The studio recently announced a new The Witcher game was in the works, though there's no release window yet. This new entry in the saga will also represent something a little different for the company, as it's being developed in Unreal Engine 5. Whether this is to distance itself from the barrage of bugs that were left in Cyberpunk can only be speculated.
Despite CD Projekt Red's reputation falling over the last couple of years, the developer still seems keen to move forward, returning to
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