CD Projekt Teases Size and Story of New The Witcher 3 Expansion Songs of the Past

The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has dropped its archetypal communicative hints for the game's upcoming 3rd expansion, Songs of the Past.

Officially confirmed yesterday, Songs of the Past volition get for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S successful 2027 and erstwhile again let players to instrumentality connected the relation of legendary monster slayer Geralt.

The enlargement volition motorboat 12 years aft The Witcher 3's archetypal debut successful 2015, and 11 years aft the game's 2nd expansion, Blood and Wine, released successful 2016. Fans expect its communicative to besides enactment arsenic thing of a span to the upcoming The Witcher 4, which inactive lacks a merchandise date.

"We won't springiness excessively overmuch distant close present due to the fact that we privation you to acquisition it arsenic you play," elder assemblage and societal media manager Laura Beitzel teased contiguous during a 10th day livestream designed to observe Blood and Wine.

"But arsenic a fewer eagle-eyed radical person already seen implicit the past 24 hours, determination are immoderate hints waiting for you connected a precise important evening successful Witcher lore, Belleteyn Night, successful our Belleteyn solemnisation that we shared a fewer weeks ago. So... support looking for clues."

Here, Beitzel is referencing a portion of artwork and a poem it sneakily posted connected societal media a period ago. It shows Geralt resting by a bonfire arsenic Dandelion plays the lute portion villagers dance. More importantly, though, it shows Geralt with a mysterious caller sword — the aforesaid sword he's besides holding successful Songs of the Past's uncover artwork, which sports an antithetic ornate curved crossguard.

CD Projekt's sneaky The Witcher 3 Belleteyn tease — with Geralt's caller Songs of the Past sword disposable successful the bottommost near corner. Image credit: CD Projekt.

Belleteyn has been referenced successful The Witcher before, and is simply a fertility festival that takes spot each spring. Here is the image's accompanying poem, successful lawsuit you privation to scour it for further clues:

"So yes, Geralt is holding a sword," CD Projekt's Amelia Korzycka continued, referencing Songs of the Past's cardinal artwork. "It is simply a precise important sword for the communicative and you volition get to cognize it erstwhile the crippled comes out. So a fewer much streams earlier that erstwhile [we] uncover it."

Beitzel besides discussed the size of the enlargement — and arsenic we heard previously, Songs of the Past is an enlargement alternatively than a smaller DLC oregon add-on.

"Songs of the Past volition beryllium aligned with what you're acquainted with successful Blood and Wine, and what you've travel to acquisition and expect from america erstwhile we bash our expansions," Beitzel explained. "It's an expansion, let's marque it clear."

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past authoritative artwork. Image credit: CD Projekt.

Today's livestream besides included confirmation that Songs of the Past volition see much Gwent cards, and that CD Projekt was inactive moving connected cross-platform mod enactment for The Witcher 3, to motorboat astatine immoderate constituent successful the future.

Finally, CD Projekt's latest fiscal results person contiguous confirmed a caller wide income full for The Witcher 3, which present stands astatine 65 cardinal copies sold, up 5 cardinal from its past count. That fig seems apt to emergence adjacent further erstwhile Songs of the Past launches astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027.

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