{"id":83301,"date":"2026-05-29T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83301"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:36:53","slug":"the-witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-expansion-is-in-a-way-a-prologue-for-the-series-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83301","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past Expansion ‘Is, in a Way, a Prologue’ for the Series’ Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CD Projekt’s newly-revealed The Witcher 3<\/a> expansion Songs of the Past will help set the stage for the upcoming The Witcher 4<\/a>, the developer has suggested.<\/p>\n

While telling a standalone story starring Geralt set after the events of The Witcher 3, the new adventure will also act as a sort-of prologue to CD Projekt’s next big blockbuster, according to the company’s joint CEO Micha\u0142 Nowakowski.<\/p>\n

Speaking to investors, Nowakowski was questioned on how the expansion is being positioned in the franchise, why it is now launching in 2027 (after previously being expected this year) and whether any of CD Projekt’s new trilogy of The Witcher games will also receive expansions, as The Witcher 3 has (don’t hold your breath).<\/p>\n

“First and foremost, we really wanted to deliver a great experience to the fans, a really cool expansion that’s going to make people happy that they can come back to The Witcher 3 setting,” Nowakowski said, discussing why Songs of the Past was being made. <\/p>\n

“Of course, indirectly, yes, it is a reminder [of the franchise for fans]. It is, in a way, a prologue, although it’s not a prologue in a verbatim way of [being] a prologue for the actual The Witcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CD Projekt’s newly-revealed The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past will help set the stage for the upcoming The Witcher 4, the developer has suggested. While telling a standalone story starring Geralt set after the events of The Witcher 3, the new adventure will also act as a sort-of prologue to CD Projekt’s next…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":83303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83301","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\/83301"}],"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=83301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83305,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83301\/revisions\/83305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}