Age of Wonders 4: Expansion Pass

CD Projekt execs compared the scope of the upcoming Witcher 3 DLC to that of Blood and Wine

The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the game's upcoming third expansion, Songs of the Past.

CD Projekt's newly-revealed The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past will help set the stage for the upcoming The Witcher 4, the developer has suggested.

The Witcher 3's upcoming expansion, Songs of the Past, was originally targeted to release this year, but developer CD Projekt Red pushed it to 2027. During an earnings call, CD Projekt's joint-CEO Michal Nowakowski said there was a "moment" when the Polish studio envisioned releasing Songs of the Past in 2026, but it was decided that shifting to 2027 would allow for "the best possible result." "We had a moment where our plans assumed that Songs of the Past would be released this year, but we decided, together with the dev team, that the game would be released in 2027 to achieve the best possib

More than a decade after it originally released, The Witcher 3 is getting new content, Songs of the Past. Developer CD Projekt Red wants fans to know that this is an "expansion" and not "DLC." The terms may be synonymous to some, but the Polish developer does not see them as being the same. "For us at CDPR, DLCs are small pieces of content we release for free--like the additional outfits for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Expansions, on the other hand, are major pieces of content providing lots of hours of gameplay, including new story, characters, etc," CD Projekt Red's Marcin Łukaszewski said. An