{"id":81744,"date":"2026-09-03T07:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81744"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:04:58","slug":"the-witcher-4-cyberpunk-2077-developer-cd-projekt-red-ramps-up-hiring-on-project-hadar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=81744","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2077 Developer CD Projekt Red Ramps Up Hiring on &#8216;Project Hadar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/09\/02\/witcher-4k-tech-demo-blogroll-copy-1748975818271-1788385719321.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The Witcher and Cyberpunk developer CD Projekt Red is staffing up for its unannounced &#8216;Project Hadar&#8217;, as that team is currently over 30 people strong with plans &#8220;to hire more, up to 50 developers by the end of this year,&#8221; CD Projekt Red vice president of investor relations Karolina Gnas said on the company latest earnings call on Wednesday. The Project Hadar news was first reported by GamesRadar.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;Right now, the team is mostly focused on testing different approaches, ideas, and, you know, prototyping some gameplay element, and this is it,&#8221; Gnas added. &#8220;Hadar is still in the concept phase.&#8221; CDPR also confirmed that the remake of The Witcher 1 is on hold in favor of putting more resources into The Witcher 4, which the studio is targeting for a 2028 release, as well as the just-announced decade-later Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">But what is Project Hadar? It&#8217;s tough to guess at this point, as The Witcher is a third-person fantasy RPG, while Cyberpunk is a first-person RPG shooter. Hadar being an RPG of some caliber is the only reasonably safe bet at this point.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Regardless, CDPR is nothing if not busy, with The Witcher 3 Remastered due out this month (and thankfully, existing owners get upgraded free and, yes, your old save files will work), plus The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, The Witcher 4, a Cyberpunk sequel, the aforementioned Witcher 1 remake, and Project Hadar all in development.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Ryan McCaffrey is IGN&#8217;s executive editor of previews and host of IGN&#8217;s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<em>, and a co-host of <\/em>Next-Gen Console Watch<em>. He&#8217;s a North Jersey guy, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Taylor ham,&#8221; not &#8220;pork roll.&#8221; Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMC_Ryan\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>@DMC_Ryan<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-witcher-4-cyberpunk-2077-developer-cd-projekt-red-ramps-up-hiring-on-project-hadar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher and Cyberpunk developer CD Projekt Red is staffing up for its unannounced &#8216;Project Hadar&#8217;, as that team is currently over 30 people strong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10412,3697,29375,11430,781,14227,8291,819,10956],"class_list":["post-81744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cyberpunk","tag-developer","tag-hadar","tag-hiring","tag-project","tag-projekt","tag-ramps","tag-red","tag-witcher","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}