All six new Witcher games CD Projekt explained By Kes Eylers-Stephenson, 04 Oct 2022 FollowtopicsPlayStation 5AnnouncementKes Eylers-Stephenson The Witcher gaming universe is about to expand mightily after CD Projekt announced six new games in the franchise. This includes a new trilogy, spin-offs, and the upcoming PS5 remaster of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt.The Witcher series is getting six new games, CD Projekt has announced. This includes a new mainline series to carry on from "the legacy" of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, spin-offs, and a long-awaited PS5 upgrade to The Witcher 3. The Witcher franchise is coming back for moreNew Witcher trilogy, spin-offs, and remasterThe Witcher 4 begins a new trilogy which will be released within a six-year cycle along with the other three games, the publisher announced via a strategy update (embedded below). The official statement reads: "Polaris is a codename for the next installment in The Witcher series of games, which we recently announced was in pre-production. It is the beginning of a new saga: we aim to release two more Witcher games after Polaris, creating a new AAA RPG trilogy."The first game of the new trilogy was already announced with the news that the developers were swapping to Unreal Engine 5 rather than its proprietary RED Engine. After a developent update, the future of the series was implied to be a new trilogy — which is obviously now the case with The Witcher Polaris and it's two sequels.Two new The Witcher spin-offs were also announced. A game codenamed Sirius is being developed by The Molasses Flood, a developer acquired by CD Projekt only recently. "It will differ from our past productions," say CD Projekt, "[by] offering multiplayer gameplay on top of a single-player experience including a campaign with quests and a story."The second spin-off is called Hadar, "a third, entirely distinct IP, created from scratch within CDPR. The project is in the earliest stages of the creative process, which means we are not developing any game yet, but working exclusively on the foundation for this new setting." What exactly this project could look like is anyone's guess — though, it's likely the experimental one referred to previously — but it should help flesh out the mesmerising world of The Witcher further. All three new Witcher games have boring title cardsThe Witcher 3 Wild Hunt for PS5 is confirmed to be on the way by the end of 2022. The upgrade hasn't really been talked about in extensive detail yet, despite its announcement last year, though we know it should be using ray-tracing. It faced considerable development trouble after the war in Ukraine piled trouble on the Russian side of the American-registered Saber Interactive. While the release date has been narrowed and the game has been rated, it looks like this is the final update we will be getting before the game is fully unveiled. That is it! Those are all three games announced by CD Projekt, the developers of one of our best PS4 games and best DLC on PlayStation. Let us know what you think of these games in the comments and F in the chat for Thronebreaker The Witcher Tales going without its deserved sequel.Related stories: Loved The Witcher 3? You need to keep an eye on new RPG Dawnwalker Top PS5 games of 2023 — 100 most-played PS5 and PS4 games this year The Witcher 4 development update gives us hope for Gwent on PS5 The Witcher 4 can wait — check out this overlooked PS4 spin-off first The Witcher 4 getting full focus as CDPR wraps up latest PS5 expansion AnnouncementPlayStation 5 Written by Kes Eylers-StephensonEditor Kes is our resident expert in PlayStation and Sony news. He writes about PS5 games like LEGO Horizon Adventures, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Concord, and Death Stranding 2 using experience from years of PlayStation gaming. He also covers PS Plus news, as well as his favorite games — The Witcher 3, God of War, and The Last of Us — before an evening swim.