{"id":88193,"date":"2026-08-25T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88193"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:38:11","slug":"the-witcher-3-remastered-launches-september-as-a-free-upgrade-for-existing-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88193","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3 Remastered Launches September, as a Free Upgrade For Existing Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>CD Projekt Red has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\">The Witcher 3 Remastered<\/a>, coming as a free upgrade to all owners on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S next month on September 29.<\/p>\n<p>In a stunning conclusion to Gamescom&#8217;s Opening Night Live, the developer confirmed a list of additional features coming to the game&#8217;s Remastered version as well as notably enhanced visuals, which we&#8217;ve listed out below. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no upgrade to the game&#8217;s current Switch 1 version, though a separate Switch 2-native version of The Witcher 3 Remastered will be sold, and owners of the Switch 1 version will be able to claim this free. The remastered game will also be sold on PC via Battle.net for the first time, where it will unlock a Geralt-themed skin in Diablo 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Witcher 3 Remastered \u2014 and the current game, as of today \u2014 will also include access to the game&#8217;s first two expansions at no additional cost. Of course, all of this precedes the arrival of the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-songs-of-the-past\">Songs of the Past<\/a>, The Witcher 3&#8217;s third expansion, due in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Everything new coming to The Witcher 3 Remastered<\/p>\n<p>Major features include tweaked combat, improved traversal and movement, revamped mount handling, enhanced monster behaviors, a skill tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3 Remastered, coming as a free upgrade to all owners on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S next month on September 29. In a stunning conclusion to Gamescom&#8217;s Opening Night Live, the developer confirmed a list of additional features coming to the game&#8217;s Remastered version as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":88195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88193","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\/88193"}],"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=88193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88197,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88193\/revisions\/88197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}