CD Projekt Red unveils new studio and The Witcher 3 logos

CD Projekt Red has today unveiled two new logos — or “visual identification” according to the press release — for the studio itself and for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

The new logo for the studio features a red bird and is known as the REDbird logo and is seen as embodying the spirit of CD Projekt Red by Head of Studio Adam Badowski. The new logo would give the website a new look. “We are rebels and rebels are free. Just like birds. The Northern Cardinal, or REDbird, is what we see ourselves in the industry: intrepid, bold and confident; flying high and aiming even higher.”

The REDbird logo is the new, official logo for the studio starting today, 15 May.

The newly unveiled The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt logo “casts the spotlight on the mask” of general Eredin, leader of the Wild Hunt. Cd Projekt Red says the “Wild Hunt has always been thought to presage war, great plagues and death. Their origin unknown, these ghastly riders instilled fear in the hearts of men and are believed to be able to steal people’s spirits that would later join the cavalcade.”

The stuff of nightmares, the Wild Hunt always appear at night and in the Winter, their coming heralded by the aurora borealis. In the game the Wild Hunt are not simply bosses, but are woven into the folklore of the world and are essential to The Witcher 3’s narrative universe.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One February 2015.