{"id":124275,"date":"2022-03-22T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124275"},"modified":"2022-03-22T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T06:20:02","slug":"the-witcher-4-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124275-the-witcher-4-announced","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 4 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red has\u00a0announced that it will be working with Epic Games to develop the next installment in The Witcher series of video games.<\/p>\n<p>The developer also confirmed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thewitcher.com\/en\/news\/42167\/a-new-saga-begins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post on The Witcher website<\/a> that it will be moving from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5 to create a vast open world and choice-based story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting moment as we\u2019re moving from REDengine to Unreal Engine 5, beginning a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games,&#8221; said CD Projekt Red CTO Pawe\u0142 Zawodny.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll closely collaborate with Epic Games\u2019 developers with the primary goal being to help tailor the engine for open-world experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Witcher is one of the most popular fantasy franchises that span several books, video game series, and most recently a Netflix adaptation starring Henry Cavill who plays the famous Witcher Geralt of Rivia.<\/p>\n<p>In The Witcher video games, fans get to play as Geralt as he ventures \u201cThe Continent\u201d on quests to slay deadly monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Although this announcement is exciting for fans, the development time frame and the release date are still unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XtbfqscMWr\">https:\/\/t.co\/XtbfqscMWr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eK6ZIbfLRa\">pic.twitter.com\/eK6ZIbfLRa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Witcher (@witchergame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/witchergame\/status\/1505945110722326529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Awesome PC game deals from Steam and Epic Games this weekend\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124249-awesome-pc-game-deals-from-steam-and-epic-games-this-weekend\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome PC game deals from Steam and Epic Games this weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red has\u00a0announced that it will be working with Epic Games to develop the next installment in The Witcher series of video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":124277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2122,1415,1093,1157],"class_list":["post-124275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-epic-games","tag-the-witcher","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}