Warner Bros. Interactive Acquired The Rights To Distribute Cyberpunk 2077
Developer CD Projekt Red is partnering with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to distribute and to promote Cyberpunk 2077 in North America.
Warner Bros. Interactive will handle the promotion and distribution of Cyberpunk 2077 for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in North America. The two companies had partnered-up previously to distribute The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Michal Nowakowski, CD Projekt Red’s Member of the Board and SVP of Business Development and Kevin Kebodeaux, Senior Vice President, Sales, Americas, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment provided a statement about the partnership:
We’ve worked with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on’ The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings’ and ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’ and both releases turned out to be really successful, so we’re entering this new stage of our cooperation with great confidence. Cyberpunk 2077’ is our biggest and most ambitious project to date, and I’m really looking forward to all the amazing things we can achieve together.
CD Projekt Red is one of the best game development studios in the world and it’s great to be working with the team again. Cyberpunk 2077 is a standout title and we are expecting great things from our continued collaboration with CD Projekt Red.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a narrative-driven, open-world RPG set in the most vibrant and dangerous metropolis of the future — Night City. The game follows the story of V, a mercenary on the rise in a world of cyberenhanced street warriors, tech-savvy netrunners and corporate life-hackers. Featuring CD Projekt Red’s hallmark concept of choices and consequences, players will face difficult decisions that ripple through the entire game. CD Projekt Red claims the game is still a work-in-progress but it’s fully playable.
No official release date has been announced for the game.