{"id":86268,"date":"2026-07-21T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86268"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:40:09","slug":"well-finally-see-the-witcher-3s-new-expansion-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86268","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll Finally See The Witcher 3\u2019s New Expansion Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Gamescom Opening Night Live just a little over a month away, it looks like the first big reveal for the showcase has been revealed:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"263053\"> The Witcher 3<\/a>. Not too long ago, CD Projekt Red confirmed that a third expansion for its fantasy-themed action-RPG is in development, and today, it confirmed a first look at The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt &#8211; Songs of the Past will be held during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-witcher-3s-songs-of-the-past-expansion-was-supposed-to-release-sooner\/\">Geoff Keighley&#8217;s annual Gamescom<\/a> kick-off show on August 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond that, CD Projekt Red&#8211;not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/the-witcher-company-cd-projekt-is-now-cd-projekt-red-not-to-be-confused-with-cd-projekt-red\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CD Projekt Red<\/a>&#8211;added that the expansion will also have a presence on the Gamescom showfloor, via a guided presentation at the studio&#8217;s booth for the duration of the convention. Arriving 12 years after The Witcher 3 first launched, Songs of the Past follows Geralt of Rivia on a new quest, but other than that, CD Projekt Red has been cagey with details. What we do know is that the expansion is being co-developed with Fool&#8217;s Theory, a studio comprised of several veteran developers who worked on The Witcher 3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/witcher-3s-songs-of-the-past-is-an-expansion-not-dlc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The expansion will launch<\/a> for the PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One controversial decision by CD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Gamescom Opening Night Live just a little over a month away, it looks like the first big reveal for the showcase has been revealed: The Witcher 3. Not too long ago, CD Projekt Red confirmed that a third expansion for its fantasy-themed action-RPG is in development, and today, it confirmed a first look at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86268"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86271,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86268\/revisions\/86271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}