The Witcher and The Witcher 2 have been critically well received, with the second installment pushing the latest PC hardware to its limit. The studio, CD Projekt, has now announced its next project: Cyberpunk, a game based on the pen-and-paper RPG.

Projekt said the game is a "triple-A RPG" and represents the first new IP since The Witcher debuted in 2007. Developers from The Witcher's team are working on the title.

The announcement was made at the CD Projekt Summer Conference, where Cyberpunk creator and R. Talsorian Games chairman Mike Pondsmith said the franchise has more than five million players worldwide.

"Like the similar Shadowrun series, Cyberpunk debuted in the late 1980s and featured many staples from the Cyberpunk genre established by authors like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, such as hackers, cybernetic implants, and megacorporations," Gamasutra reported.

Projekt is working with Pondsmith, and wants to create a franchise of Cyberpunk-based games as it did with The Witcher.

CD Projekt said, despite the polar-opposite differences in setting between The Witcher and Cyberpunk, the latter will feature hallmarks from The Witcher including moral choices and non-linear progression.

It was also confirmed The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings releases for the Xbox 360 in Japan on August 23, and the title will arrive for Macs this fall. The Enhanced Edition of The Witcher 2 arrived earlier in 2012 for Xbox 360 players in North America and Europe.

As background, Cyberpunk 2020 is a pen-and-paper RPG from Talsorian Games and Mike Pondsmith. It featured hacking, cybernetic limbs and a variety of weapons. It also included 1980-esque cellphones, not the smartphones of today. In the slides from the conference, CD Projekt said it will have a rich and futuristic world, "ultramodern technology" and a "decadent and degenerate human society."

In the pen-and-paper version, there are over 4,700 pages describing the game world and 44 handbooks.

The developers also made five promises: it will be a mature RPG that is "realistic and brutal," it will have advanced RPG mechanics based on the pen-and-paper system, a non-linear story, different character classes, a "gigantic arsenal of weapons, upgrades, implants and cool high-tech toys" and will "set a new standard in the futuristic RPG genre."

CD Projekt also revealed The Witcher 2 has sold more than 1.3 million copies across the PC and Xbox 360.

No release date for Cyberpunk has been announced.