New The Witcher 3 mod automatically switches path tracing between 8 regions, interiors and combat
A new mod called Dynamic Region Graphics is out for The Witcher 3 Remastered, letting players decide exactly where path tracing kicks in and where lighter graphics settings are enough. Path tracing support on PC...
Gamer shows how to set up two DLSS 5 passes in The Witcher 3 so characters don't look older
Reddit user Kromatico posted a side-by-side video of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with DLSS 5 on and off, running in dual-pass mode. The test ran in the most demanding part of the game for...
The Witcher 3 fans are upset that the remaster literally destroyed the cozy charm of golden Toussaint
The chase for photorealism does strange things to games. Raw detail ages in a couple of years, while good art design lasts for decades. Sometimes a path tracing update manages to swap the latter for...
Don't slaughter the cows in The Witcher 3's prologue – otherwise the game turns into a horror movie
Starting areas in RPGs usually run on an unspoken agreement. The world goes easy on the hero and throws a few wolves, drowners, and a couple of clumsy bandits their way. Sometimes that deal falls...
Modder turns all griffins in The Witcher 3 into legendary low-poly pigeons
Modder grapedia released Low-Poly Pigeon – The Revenge for The Witcher 3. The mod turns every Griffin in the game into the angular bird players know from the long-running meme. For anyone out of the...
The Witcher 3 fans split into two camps: some complain about overly drastic combat changes, while others don't notice them at all
Improving something millions of players have already beaten inside and out is one of the most thankless jobs in game development. Changes either go unnoticed entirely or get noticed too well, and then your own...
The Witcher 3 remaster made dungeons brighter and monsters funnier
Darkness in games works as well as any soundtrack, because the scariest things are the ones you can't see. But flood a dungeon with even light and render every brick, and the monster around the...
The developers of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 wanted to send players to a new region from the start, but are doing everything they can to dodge questions about the main villain
CD Projekt RED is keeping most story details of the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past under wraps. The studio has shown the setting and a few characters Geralt will meet, but the...
The Witcher 3 players joke about Vesemir riding an invisible horse around White Orchard after the remaster release
Big updates to older games work like a lottery. New textures and lighting almost always come bundled with surprises, and some of them look like genuine witcher magic. Case in point: Geralt's gray-haired mentor calmly...
Fans of The Witcher 3 are disappointed with the remaster, which turned out to be packed with bugs
You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, as everyone knows. The trouble starts when the horse isn't visible at all, and the rider glides over the ground with legs spread wide, occasionally sinking...
CD Projekt RED releases patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remaster with DLSS and fix for dark interiors
CD Projekt RED released a patch for the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Updated Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series. The Xbox Play Anywhere version on PC also got its own fix. The studio announced...
One PC setting rids The Witcher 3 Remastered of its washed-out picture
The Witcher 3 Remastered launched this week, and early impressions of the re-release are mostly positive. Lighting has sparked the most debate. The updated visuals are noticeably brighter than the original, and some fans of...
The Witcher 3 Remastered performance test in 4K – RTX 5080 handles path tracing at up to 84 FPS with frame generation
CD Projekt RED has released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered. The free update is available to all Complete Edition owners, and its main addition is path tracing support on PC. The team at DSOGaming...
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...
