{"id":82861,"date":"2026-05-28T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82861"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:37:33","slug":"cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=82861","title":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Teases Size and Story of New The Witcher 3 Expansion Songs of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\">The Witcher 3<\/a> developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the game&#8217;s upcoming third expansion, Songs of the Past.<\/p>\n<p>Officially confirmed yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-songs-of-the-past-expansion-dlc-announced-first-details-confirmed\">Songs of the Past will arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S in 2027<\/a> and once again allow players to take on the role of legendary monster slayer Geralt.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion will launch 12 years after The Witcher 3&#8217;s original debut in 2015, and 11 years after the game&#8217;s second expansion, Blood and Wine, released in 2016. Fans expect its story to also act as something of a bridge to the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-iv\">The Witcher 4<\/a>, which still lacks a release date.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"every-cd-projekt-red-game-in-development\" data-value=\"every-cd-projekt-red-game-in-development\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t give too much away right now because we want you to experience it as you play,&#8221; senior community and social media manager Laura Beitzel teased today during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4asecMMnP4E\">10th anniversary livestream<\/a> designed to celebrate Blood and Wine. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But as a few eagle-eyed people have already seen over the past 24 hours, there are some hints waiting for you on a very important evening in Witcher lore, Belleteyn Night, in our Belleteyn celebration that we shared a few weeks ago. So&#8230; keep looking for clues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here, Beitzel is referencing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the game&#8217;s upcoming third expansion, Songs of the Past. Officially confirmed yesterday, Songs of the Past will arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S in 2027 and once again allow players to take on the role of legendary monster slayer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":82863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82861","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\/82861"}],"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\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82865,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82861\/revisions\/82865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}