In a sad turn of events after last week CD Projekt Red confirmed that it had renewed tasking the Boston based inner studio The Molasses Flood with the restart of development of a new The Witcher coded named Sirius, most of its talent have been let go.

CD Projket Red confirmed VGC report about a lay-off run early this week that impacted most of The Molasses Flood staff and local Poland gaming studio as well.

"Because the project changed, so has the composition of the team that's working on it--mainly on The Molasses Flood's side. The concrete number of employees we parted ways with is 21 team members in the US and 8 in Poland”.

Four days prior, CD Projekt Red told its investor that it has a new framework for Project Sriius development after publicly acknowledging that development needed a reboot a few weeks ago.

The new framework includes partial reversal – 21.5 million PLN – of the impairment allowance on development expenditures related to the Project in 2022, which originally amounted to 33.4 million PLN and burdened the financial result of the Company and its Group in 2022 and writing off 2.7 million PLN of the development expenditures related to the project in the first quarter of 2023.

In translation for gamers uninterested in the business aspect of the gaming industry, this is just setting things in order to ensure that production can have a more realistic approach and use of budget within the scope of goals.

Project Sirius will be a new original The Witcher game that will include a multiplayer element on top of a single player experience that will include "a campaign with quests and a story".

It will be interesting to see what else they can give as detail but, their next earning reports could be in June.