The events of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 take place after Blood and Wine, but you don't have to complete the expansion
CD Projekt RED revealed where the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past fits in the timeline and what players need to finish before starting it. The story takes place after the ending of...
Why The Witcher 3 Remaster is worth playing on the highest difficulty
Many players default to the standard difficulty so they can enjoy the story in peace. In RPGs with a well-designed combat system, that habit often backfires: half the mechanics stay an unread chapter. Geralt, armed...
The three best protagonists of story-driven RPG live in Eastern Europe
The RPG genre has long run on American fuel: Skyrim, Fallout, Mass Effect. But put together a short list of characters worth living a hundred hours as, and it turns out they all come from...
The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past scriptwriter wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone – is the story in good hands?
If you need proof that real fans are working on The Witcher 3's new expansion, here's one: the lead writer of Songs of the Past wrote her thesis analyzing "Hearts of Stone" almost a decade...
Songs of the Past were made possible thanks to the development of a remaster of the 11-year-old The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fool's Theory revealed that the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt might never have happened without a massive remaster of the base game. Technical limits of the original engine made...
Geralt's chain was supposed to appear back in The Witcher 3, but it only became technically possible now
The Witcher 3 is finally getting a weapon fans have wanted for over a decade – Geralt will get a chain. In Andrzej Sapkowski novels, the witcher occasionally uses a chain when fighting monsters. It...
Songs of the Past will conclude The Witcher 3's story, not pave the way to The Witcher 4
CD Projekt Red says the third and final expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, called Songs of the Past, will "complete" the game story by finally giving Dandelion the spotlight he deserves. Developers clarified...
After the free remaster of The Witcher 3 was announced, most gamers once again calling CD Projekt RED the best studio in the universe
Games industry has trained everyone to expect a familiar cycle – a studio ships a broken game, collects money from preorders, quietly patches critical bugs for six months, then moves on to the next title....
Mod with 725 thousand downloads to be officially included in The Witcher 3 Remastered
CD Projekt RED brought in one of the community most well-known modders to work on The Witcher 3 Remastered. The developer in question goes by "HalkHogan" and created The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project NextGen...
The Witcher 3 fan compared a shot of Gaunter O'Dimm from the original and the remaster – in the reissue the image got worse due to lighting
Remasters almost always try to sell the same idea: what was dark and murky is now bright and clean. The problem is that in games, "dark and murky" is often not a bug – it's...
The upcoming expansion for The Witcher 3 will feature Geralt's canonical weapon from the books for the first time – a silver chain
At Gamescom, CD Projekt Red finally revealed the long-awaited teaser trailer for the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3. The biggest surprise came from the weapon in Geralt hands – a silver...
Patch 4.040.200 for The Witcher 3 released, giving away the first two expansions for free, plus a full list of remaster features
CD Projekt RED released update 4.040.200 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt right after announcing the free remaster at Gamescom Opening Night Live. The patch is already live, while the remaster itself won't arrive until...
The Witcher 3 remaster will release for free on September 29 with a Songs of the Past trailer
CD Projekt RED announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered during Gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25. The update arrives September 29 and goes to every owner of the game for free, with no...
The Witcher 3 developer revealed that NPC mothers in villages dropped their babies on the ground for weeks
CD Projekt Red quest designer Philipp Weber explained how the studio nearly painted itself into a corner early in the production of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The team focused on giving NPCs believable daily...
Only 5.6% of players completed the rarest quest in The Witcher 3
Game Checklists, a site that works with progress trackers for achievement hunters, dug through data from more than three thousand The Witcher 3 player profiles to figure out which quests get skipped the most. Incomplete...
New Witcher 3 DLC may be set near Velen rather than Zerrikania, rumor suggests
Rumors about a mysterious third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt keep surfacing online – and at this rate, the hype surrounding it might start rivaling that of Half-Life 2 Episode 3. CD Projekt...
Witcher 3 mod restores darker Hearts of Stone ending cut during development
Brothers in Arms mod for The Witcher 3 has long been known as an extensive collection of bug fixes and restored content. The mod receives regular updates – developers previously restored numerous cut dialogues, including...
Modder creates quest for The Witcher 3 letting you play as Ciri in Kovir
Right after The Witcher 4's presentation at Game Awards 2024, modders immediately started porting the older Ciri into The Witcher 3. Now one of them has taken things further by creating a full story quest...
The Witcher 3 mod makes grass significantly more beautiful across all regions without serious frame drops
Modder Maidenfan724 released a comprehensive mod for The Witcher 3 that completely overhauls grass across all major areas of the game. The modification is compatible with both the original and next-gen versions, making the improvements...
