Gabe Amatangelo

In an interview with Game File, Cyberpunk 2077 game director Gabe Amatangelo voiced his confidence in his hard-working team going forward, eager to recapture the success found by the game’s expansion Phantom Liberty.

CD Projekt Red may insist that it's done working on but that may only be half the story. Having been released in an unfinished state back in 2020, the studio has worked tirelessly over the last three years to deliver the product that was initially promised to consumers, concluding with the launch of the excellent 2.0 Update and. As CDPR looks to the future, game director Gabe Amatangelo explains that there could still be some room to grow in some very small ways.

CD Projekt Red finally seems to be moving on from according to a new interview. In the years following the sci-fi RPG's disastrous 2020 launch, its developers have worked to overhaul the title with many major patches that not only fixed bugs and glitches, but added completely new features such as a working Metro system, romantic hangouts across multiple apartments, car combat and more.

Cyberpunk 2077 completed a remarkable turnaround last year with the launch of Phantom Liberty and the free Update 2.0, but CD Projekt RED has continued to release patches for the game since then. From smaller updates to larger ones that bring new gameplay features, the studio has continued working on the action RPG, even though the focus of the team has now very much shifted to its sequel, Project Orion.

Future minor Cyberpunk 2077 updates aren't ruled out, according to Game Director Gabe Amatangelo.

Cyberpunk 2077's director, Gabe Amatangelo, has addressed the possibility of future updates to the game, stating that the game will only continue to receive small updates in the future. With last year seeing Cyberpunk 2077 getting one of its biggest updates yet, it looks like the game won't be receiving future patches of the same size.

Cyberpunk 2077's director has said that CD Projekt Red is "done" working on the RPG but says it may still add the odd small feature when needed. 

A CD Projekt Red developer has revealed that even his landlord gave him a tough time following the troubled release of Cyberpunk 2077. The RPG's late 2020 launch is still considered to be one of the worst in video game history, but improvements over time have turned the title into a fan favorite.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Cyberpunk 2077 was a mess when it first launched. Whether it was the missing features or the numerous bugs, many felt that CD Projekt Red had failed to deliver the game that it promised.

The sequel to seems to have already learned an important lesson from its predecessor and, with it, is hoping to avoid the first game’s biggest and worst mistake. The release of CD Projekt Red’s open-world RPG was a reputation scandal, despite the large sales figures. At launch, the product was plagued by bugs and other technical problems, mostly on the past-gen consoles. Aside from the technical issues that affected customers, the game was wrapped in problems with development, such as the crunch imposed on employees to deliver the title on time – when it was clearly not ready.

“Most companies die with a bad launch, this one actually came out stronger.”

With support for Cyberpunk 2077 having finally ended, CD Projekt RED is moving on to its next projects, and while it looks like The Witcher 4 will take precedence as it enters full production later this year, work on the next Cyberpunk game is also underway.

Cyberpunk 2077 will receive its "last big update" tomorrow, December 5, 2023, as developer CD Projekt Red turns its attention towards the sequel, codenamed Orion, and the next mainline Witcher game, codenamed Polaris.

Two months after saying that Cyberpunk 2077's massive 2.0 patch and Phantom Liberty expansion would be the last of the «big updates» to the game, CD Projekt has surprised everyone with an announcement that update 2.1 is coming in December with «new and hotly anticipated gameplay elements.»

CD Projekt Red has a few more surprises in store for Night City citizens.

CD Projekt has provided a sales update on Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion.

CD Projekt has announced the anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition, which will bundle the base game with its Phantom Liberty expansion.

CD Projekt Red wants Cyberpunk 2077's sequel, codenamed Orion, to undergo a similar evolution to that of The Witcher franchise.

With Cyberpunk 2077's only expansion, Phantom Liberty, now firmly in the rearview, CD Projekt RED is free to look to the future. There's the new The Witcher trilogy, of course, but also the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel codenamed Project Orion.

CD Projekt has confirmed plans to release a complete edition of Cyberpunk 2077.

With Cyberpunk 2077 receiving its last major update and its only paid expansion in Phantom Liberty (which sold three million in its first week), CD Projekt RED is looking to the future, specifically Project Orion. Announced in October 2022, the sequel promised to prove the “full power and potential of the Cyberpunk universe.”

CD Projekt has released the latest Cyberpunk 2077 update for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.

Cyberpunk 2077 marks the end for CD Projekt's REDengine, the in-house technology that it's been building on since 2011's The Witcher 2. Last year, CD Projekt announced that its next Witcher game and other games going forward—including Cyberpunk's sequel, codename Orion—will be developed with Unreal Engine 5.

When Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC launched, it marked the end of REDengine. The development team has been using that engine for years, and their transition to Unreal Engine 5 also meant that the studio would no longer support Cyberpunk 2077. Instead, this launch expansion was the last of the big new content for the game. Now, the focus is on developing future games through Unreal Engine 5. However, if you thought that this shift was difficult, you’d be surprised. We’re finding out that the transition and the content they learned to develop using REDengine is a bit easier to bring onto the new engine. 

CD Projekt have detailed Cyberpunk 2077 2.01, the game's first patch following update 2.0, which implemented a top-to-bottom reset of the once-ailing but at present, rather triumphant sci-fi RPG. According to the provisional changelog, the latest update encompasses general performance improvements and minor fixes plus a fatal bug which sees V falling through an elevator floor to their death when the performance falls too low. Now that's what I call a plunging frame-rate.

CD Projekt has detailed the next Cyberpunk 2077 patch, which aims to address an issue with corrupted PS5 saves, among other features.

Despite its many, MANY problems, there were several things that gamers were looking forward to in Cyberpunk 2077 when it first came out in 2020. One was how you could augment your character, V, to suit your needs in this Cyberpunk world. Specifically, you could make V as robotic as you wanted or keep them human if you desired. Through your augments, you could make “builds” of V that could do all sorts of damage on a physical or technological level. As you would expect, gamers have debated what the best build to do in the game is.

Cyberpunk 2077 director Gabe Amatangelo has revealed how to become what he believes is one of the most fun archetypes in Phantom Liberty: "a warlock netrunner."

Cyberpunk 2077's devs never considered abandoning the game despite its rocky launch in 2020.

Despite its disastrous launch, CD Projekt Red never thought about quitting development on Cyberpunk 2077.

CD Projekt RED has said a few times now that Phantom Liberty is to be Cyberpunk 2077’s one and only expansion, and as you may have expected, that still remains the plan now, in spite of the success that the developer is enjoying in the aftermath of the expansion and the base game’s impressive overhaul with Update 2.0.

When it comes to cyberpunk, I'm a simpleton: I'm always chasing the initial radioactive wave of cool that emanated from the pages of William Gibson's Neuromancer and its prequel short story Johnny Mnemonic. When I saw the monowire cyberware in Cyberpunk 2077, I knew it was the weapon for me, and I was even more excited when Cyberpunk director Gabe Amatangelo recommended a particular monowire build to me, capitalizing on all the changes to Cyberpunk's skill system in 2.0 and Phantom Liberty, in an interview this week.

CD Projekt Red has always stuck by its games. The Witcher and The Witcher 2 both got massively improved Enhanced Editions about a year after launch, while The Witcher 3 more recently got its big next-gen update a full seven years later. But none of those games had the rough landing of Cyberpunk 2077's, which led to everything from staff departures to class action lawsuits. The list of things to fix was vast, and the list of things that could be improved was even longer. It seemed like at some point, CD Projekt would have to declare the game done, perfect or not, and move on—especially when the studio decided to switch its future projects to Unreal Engine 5, easing Cyberpunk's REDengine towards retirement.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and patch 2.0 will be the final updates to the game as the developer shifts its focus towards a sequel. 

Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t have the grand launch that CD Projekt Red had hoped for. It was a rough game at its release, with some platforms being unplayable. That resulted in a massive back peddle from CD Projekt Red. It was all hands on deck when the studio worked through the countless bugs and technical issues that plagued the game. Fortunately, the game had turned itself around, leaving some fans eager to dive into its expansion. However, if you were hopeful that more big updates would be coming to the game at this point, you would be disappointed. 

Cyberpunk 2077 has been on a lot of people’s minds lately. The recent release of the Phantom Liberty DLC and the big 2.0 update has brought the game back into the fore (not that it ever truly left). However, it looks as though CD Projekt Red is ready to move onto something else.

Cyberpunk 2077 just launched its first and only DLC, Phantom Liberty, alongside the major 2.0 update. Many fans claim that the update and expansion have ironed out most of the game's long-standing problems, fulfilling old promises after years of waiting. Our own reviewer Andrew King says that it finally made the game "worth the trip". However, according to CD Projekt Red, these are the last major updates, meaning that the Cyberpunk 2077 we have today is the final version.

Cyberpunk 2077 game director Gabe Amatangelo has confirmed that the studio isn’t planning any more big updates for the title.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that, despite the success of Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, the paid expansion and update 2.0 will be the game's last major updates as the studio shifts focus to the sequel.

Cyberpunk 2077 is, finally, having its big launch moment. On Tuesday, buoyed by the 2.0 patch and expansion Phantom Liberty, the game hit its highest peak playercount since 2020. We loved Phantom Liberty, saying in our review that it's "CD Projekt firing on all cylinders to tell a great RPG story." It's been a long but impressive comeback for Cyberpunk, and the fact that the game is finally getting universal praise made me wonder if CD Projekt was reconsidering its plan to move on to a new game. After all, The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone was good, but Blood & Wine was even better…

Phantom Liberty, the first and only major expansion for Cyberpunk 2077, is nearly here. The highly anticipated DLC, which adds new quests, stories, locations, characters, and abilities, will be accompanied by a major update to the base game that adds all-new, highly requested gameplay systems.

I’m sure quite a few upcoming games are already marked on your calendar. For some of you, Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming expansion might be among the list of upcoming releases you’ll want to take on. While Cyberpunk 2077 failed to deliver the grand launch that fans were expecting, the development team put a hold on everything planned for the game post-launch and instead focused on ensuring the game met its standards. A series of updates later, the developers were able to refocus on an expansion release. Unfortunately, this game is only getting one expansion with Phantom Liberty. However, if you have been waiting for another reason to jump back into Night City, CD Projekt Red is hopeful you’ll have one this coming month. Recently, the game director behind the expansion, Gabe Amatangelo, was interviewed and provided the footage directly on their official Cyberpunk 2077 YouTube channel.

CD Projekt Red is hosting a gameplay livestream for Cyberpunk 2077 later this week, where it will share more details about its next update.

CD Projekt is RED going to have several major projects on its plate in the coming years, but it seems its current headcount of employees is more than what it will need. In a recently published organizational update, the company has announced that it will be laying off around 100 people between now and Q1 2024, which will account for roughly 9% of its total workforce.