{"id":9847,"date":"2026-05-28T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:04:31","slug":"cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Teases Size and Story of New The Witcher 3 Expansion Songs of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the game&#8217;s upcoming third expansion, Songs of the Past.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Officially confirmed yesterday, Songs of the Past will arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S in 2027 and once again allow players to take on the role of legendary monster slayer Geralt.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The expansion will launch 12 years after The Witcher 3&#8217;s original debut in 2015, and 11 years after the game&#8217;s second expansion, Blood and Wine, released in 2016. Fans expect its story to also act as something of a bridge to the upcoming The Witcher 4, which still lacks a release date.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Every CD Projekt Red Game In Development<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;We won&#8217;t give too much away right now because we want you to experience it as you play,&#8221; senior community and social media manager Laura Beitzel teased today during a 10th anniversary livestream designed to celebrate Blood and Wine. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;But as a few eagle-eyed people have already seen over the past 24 hours, there are some hints waiting for you on a very important evening in Witcher lore, Belleteyn Night, in our Belleteyn celebration that we shared a few weeks ago. So&#8230; keep looking for clues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Here, Beitzel is referencing a piece of artwork and a poem it sneakily posted on social media a month ago. It shows Geralt resting by a bonfire as Dandelion plays the lute while villagers dance. More importantly, though, it shows Geralt with a mysterious new sword \u2014 the same sword he&#8217;s also holding in Songs of the Past&#8217;s reveal artwork, which sports an unusual ornate curved crossguard.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"jsx-313219616\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image article-image article-image-full-size jsx-1809694635 jsx-2338608387\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><figcaption data-cy=\"caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490 jsx-479945570 article-image-caption\">CD Projekt&#8217;s sneaky The Witcher 3 Belleteyn tease \u2014 with Geralt&#8217;s new Songs of the Past sword visible in the bottom left corner. Image credit: CD Projekt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Belleteyn has been referenced in The Witcher before, and is a fertility festival that takes place each spring. Here is the image&#8217;s accompanying poem, in case you want to scour it for further clues:<\/p>\n<section class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"null\" class=\"progressive-image article-image article-image-full-size jsx-1809694635 jsx-2338608387\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><figcaption data-cy=\"caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490 jsx-479945570 article-image-caption\">The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past official artwork. Image credit: CD Projekt.<\/figcaption><p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Today&#8217;s livestream also included confirmation that Songs of the Past will include more Gwent cards, and that CD Projekt was still working on cross-platform mod support for The Witcher 3, to launch at some point in the future. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Finally, CD Projekt&#8217;s latest financial results have today confirmed a new overall sales total for The Witcher 3, which now stands at 65 million copies sold, up five million from its last count. That number seems likely to rise even further when Songs of the Past launches at some point in 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky <\/em>@tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.webp\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past.webp\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9849,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions\/9849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}