{"id":88262,"date":"2026-08-26T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88262"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:41:32","slug":"weve-seen-the-witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-in-action-and-its-looking-like-another-blood-wine-gamescom-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88262","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Seen The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past in Action, and It\u2019s Looking Like Another Blood &amp; Wine | gamescom 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Geralt carefully circles the Swarmion, his steps slowly overlapping as he sizes up his foe. The creature could be easily mistaken for any generic fantasy undead or humanoid mutant, were it not for the cloud of hornets that swarm around its torso \u2013 a bizarre form of armour by any stretch of the imagination. But our Witcher is as resourceful as ever. He switches his silver sword for a chain, swinging the hooked end round and round as he chooses his target. The creature&#8217;s legs, or its head? The answer is obvious. The hook sinks into the fleshy neck and pulls taught, wrenching the creature out of the hornet swarm and pulling it directly into the path of Geralt\u2019s blade. Blood plumes from its neck. The head falls with a dull thud. <\/p>\n<p>The silver chain is an important weapon for Geralt of Rivia. Those who have been there from the beginning will remember it from The Witcher\u2019s very first cutscene, back in 2007. Those who have been there from the <em>actual<\/em> beginning will know it from the short story within The Last Wish collection, from which that cutscene was adapted. The important thing is that it\u2019s part of Geralt\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geralt carefully circles the Swarmion, his steps slowly overlapping as he sizes up his foe. The creature could be easily mistaken for any generic fantasy undead or humanoid mutant, were it not for the cloud of hornets that swarm around its torso \u2013 a bizarre form of armour by any stretch of the imagination. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":88264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88262","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\/88262"}],"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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88266,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88262\/revisions\/88266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}