CD Projekt Red Poaches Another Warhorse Lead

CD Projekt Pink continues so as to add gifted builders to its crew, significantly those that had been working in lead roles at Warhorse Studios, as observed by b0ysbrokenheart on X (formerly Twitter). The newest addition is Zbynek Zelinka, whom b0ysbrokenheart confirmed utilizing a screenshot of Zelinka’s LinkedIn profile exhibiting his present job as a Senior Gameplay Designer at CD Projekt Pink, beginning in October 2026.

Zelinka was beforehand a Lead Technical Designer at Warhorse Studios, the place he labored for a complete of seven years and 10 months, rising from Technical Designer to Senior Technical Designer and finally Lead Technical Designer earlier than departing for CD Projekt Pink.

That is the Third Result in Go away Warhorse for CD Projekt Pink

Along with Zelinka, Zdenek Glatz and Karel Kolmann have additionally left Warhorse Studios for CD Projekt Pink within the final yr. All three of these builders had been at Warhorse Studios for seven or eight years, that means CD Projekt Pink is selecting up some extremely skilled workers, not less than two of whom have been concerned within the growth of each Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

Glatz joined CD Projekt Pink in Could 2026, in response to his LinkedIn, as a Senior Open World Designer. Earlier than that, he was a Lead Stage Designer at Warhorse Studios, having beforehand labored as a Sport Designer/Author and Senior Sport Designer/Author on the studio. He is bringing eight and a half years of expertise to CD Projekt Pink with him.

Along with Zelinka, Zdenek Glatz and Karel Kolmann have additionally left Warhorse Studios for CD Projekt Pink within the final yr.

Kolmann joined CD Projekt Pink in November 2025 as a Senior Quest Designer. She spent simply over eight years at Warhorse Studios earlier than that, beginning as a Author and Sport Designer in 2017, then transferring to Senior Sport Designer and finally to Lead Gameplay Designer. With them collectively, CD Projekt Pink beneficial properties a mixed 24 years of sport design expertise so as to add to their in-progress tasks.

CD Projekt Pink and Warhorse Each Have Tasks in Improvement

CD Projekt Pink has just a few extremely anticipated video games within the works, and the corporate is clearly doing its finest to seize gifted builders to assist deliver these video games to life. We all know that CD Projekt Pink is engaged on a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, which has the placeholder title of Undertaking Orion, and a job listing shows that they don’t seem to be completed trying to find builders to assist with the sport.

Then, you may have The Witcher 4 in development from CD Projekt Red, which continues the collection by placing Ciri within the position of fundamental character, and this undertaking could be significantly becoming for the devs who left Warhorse Studios to work on it. The world of The Witcher has extra magic and fantasy parts, however the normal setting is not that completely different from Kingdom Come: Deliverance. If I needed to guess, I would wager that the Witcher collection is the place the previous Warhorse devs are going to be working.

They may be placed on The Witcher 3’s Songs of the Previous growth’s growth crew, however the launch date for that’s shut sufficient that I think about quite a lot of the event is completed, and it is within the remaining levels, which leaves The Witcher 4 because the probably alternative, or the secretive Undertaking Hadar new IP that we do not actually know something about.

In the meantime, Warhorse Studios has one other Kingdom Come sport within the works and a Lord of the Rings sport, however the feedback on b0ysbrokenheart’s X submit present that persons are a bit apprehensive about these video games as devs are leaving the studio for CD Projekt Pink. One even requested CD Projekt Pink to “maintain their horses” for the sake of the subsequent Kingdom Come sport so it may be nearly as good as the primary two.

I am not very apprehensive in regards to the tasks, as all of the studio closures imply that there are, sadly, a ton of gifted builders at present out of labor, and I am positive a lot of them could be an excellent match to hitch Warhorse Studios.