{"id":82796,"date":"2026-05-28T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82796"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:37:01","slug":"the-witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-is-an-expansion-not-dlc-cd-projekt-insists-while-using-ign-interview-with-idris-elba-to-make-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82796","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past Is an Expansion, Not DLC, CD Projekt Insists While Using IGN Interview With Idris Elba to Make the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-songs-of-the-past-expansion-dlc-announced-first-details-confirmed\">the announcement of The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past<\/a>, CD Projekt staff have taken to social media to insist it should be considered an expansion, rather than DLC \u2014 even using an IGN interview with Cyberpunk star Idris Elba to hammer home the point.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, CD Projekt announced the third expansion to its hugely successful fantasy role-playing game The Witcher 3. It\u2019s due out in 2027, 12 years after the 60 million-selling The Witcher 3 came out in 2015, and 11 years after the second expansion, Blood and Wine, came out in 2016. The Witcher 3&#8217;s first expansion, Hearts of Stone, was released in October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have much to go on, save an official description that confirms Songs of the Past will return players to the role of legendary monster slayer Geralt of Rivia for a brand new adventure on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC. That\u2019s left a void for discussion around the size and scope of Songs of the Past, but everything CD Projekt staff have said following the announcement suggests fans can expect something pretty big.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me remind you the definition of the Expansion,\u201d Pawe\u0142 Sasko, Associate Game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the announcement of The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past, CD Projekt staff have taken to social media to insist it should be considered an expansion, rather than DLC \u2014 even using an IGN interview with Cyberpunk star Idris Elba to hammer home the point. Yesterday, CD Projekt announced the third&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":82798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82800,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82796\/revisions\/82800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}