Company's net profit reached 91.3 million zlotys ($22.35 million), below analysts expectation of 93 million zlotys. Revenue for the period fell 14% year-on-year to 325.2 million zlotys.

After a nearly three-year period without any major new game release, CD Projekt awaits the Sept. 26 premiere of the highly-anticipated first and only expansion to Cyberpunk 2077 under the title Phantom Liberty. The company started the marketing campaign for the expansion in June.

"Positive reactions from gamers and media representatives alike fill us with optimism. We believe that a successful launch of the expansion will again confirm the great potential of the Cyberpunk franchise", CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski said in a statement.

"In addition to the final, most intensive phase of Phantom Liberty development, this year we've also been hard at work on other projects - particularly the first game in the new Witcher trilogy", company's CFO Piotr Nielubowicz said in a statement, adding the company spent 160 million zlotys on these projects in the first half of 2023.

CD Projekt has sold over 20 million copies of Cyberpunk 2077 so far, with the Witcher trilogy sales exceeding 75 million copies.

($1 = 4.0855 zlotys)

(Reporting by Adrianna Ebert; Editing by Tomasz Janowski and Josie Kao)