{"id":92517,"date":"2026-11-03T17:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92517"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:46:07","slug":"the-witcher-3-devs-talk-songs-of-the-past-dlc-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92517","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3 Devs Talk Songs of the Past DLC Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been more than a decade since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt<\/a> was first released, but CD Projekt Red isn&#8217;t quite finished with the game just yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-songs-of-the-past\">Songs of the Past<\/a>, the game&#8217;s third expansion, is set to arrive in 2027, bringing with it an entirely new region to explore, new monsters to hunt, and more stories to tell.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you expand on a game as beloved as The Witcher 3 without upsetting its notoriously dedicated fans? And how do you keep things fresh while remaining faithful to a universe with decades of established lore?<\/p>\n<p>IGN spoke to CD Projekt Red&#8217;s level design lead Miles Tost and Songs of the Past writer Paula Meissner at the Lucca Comics &amp; Games festival about creating a distinct new corner of the Continent, the surprising importance of local booze, and why even bringing characters back from the dead doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean breaking canon.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-screenshots\" data-value=\"the-witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p><strong>IGN: <\/strong>Talking about songs of the past, from a pure level design perspective, is there a special new mechanical hook that you&#8217;re looking at for players? And also, how does the environment actively change in a way that maybe veteran players of The Witcher 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been more than a decade since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was first released, but CD Projekt Red isn&#8217;t quite finished with the game just yet. Songs of the Past, the game&#8217;s third expansion, is set to arrive in 2027, bringing with it an entirely new region to explore, new monsters to hunt, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":92519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92517","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\/92517"}],"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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92521,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92517\/revisions\/92521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}