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CD Projekt Red teases The Witcher 4 with Ciri

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CD Projekt Red teased The Witcher 4 at The Game Awards as the evening’s first major world premiere.

The cinematic of a young woman being sacrificed while being defended by Ciri, a silver-haired female Witcher, looked pretty amazing, as she faced off against a giant spider-like creature with a monstrous human face.

It was scary, but it was nice to see her slice off the beast’s limbs and lasso it with a lave rope before slicing off its head. There is a lot of pent-up demand for this game, as the Witcher 3 came out in 2015, before the popular TV series hit Netflix. No date was mentioned for release.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.