CD Projekt Red cuts 9 staff on Witcher multiplayer spinoff

CD Projekt Red has reduced the development team working on its multiplayer Witcher spinoff, Project Sirius, laying off nine employees and reassigning nine others to different projects within the company. The studio confirmed the changes on August 12, 2026, stating they were made to adjust the team's size to reflect the project's needs at its current stage of development.

The layoffs were first reported by Kotaku and subsequently confirmed by CD Projekt Red to other outlets. According to the company's statement, five employees were let go from its Warsaw headquarters and four from its Boston office. The nine employees who were not laid off have been invited to apply for other internal positions at CD Projekt Red. This marks the second significant restructuring for Project Sirius, following a 2023 overhaul that resulted in 29 layoffs and a reboot of the project's framework.

Project Sirius is an experimental multiplayer game set in The Witcher universe, originally announced in October 2022. It is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a Boston-based studio that CD Projekt acquired in 2021 and fully integrated into CD Projekt Red in April 2025. Details about the game remain scarce,...