The Witcher 3 Is Getting A Brand-New Expansion On Xbox, 12 Years After Release

CD Projekt RED has surprise-announced a third major expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - more than a decade since its last DLC release in 2016's Blood and Wine.

The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past is due out in 2027 — 12 years after the initial launch of TW3 — and is being developed in collaboration with Fool’s Theory; a team featuring "industry veterans" who worked on the base game, and are also in charge of the already-announced The Witcher Remake.

We'll hear more about the Songs of the Past expansion this summer, but in the meantime, PC players will have to be on the lookout for updated minimum specs, as the new DLC will bring its own performance and compatibility requirements to The Witcher 3 next year. In terms of consoles, Songs of the Past has only been announced for current-gen machines - much like Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion last year.

This new DLC announcement for The Witcher 3 perhaps isn't that surprising for anyone following recent rumours, but the timing has indeed come as a bit of a shock. It sounds as though CDPR revealed Songs of the Past slightly early because of unintentional updates to the team's RED launcher. Whoops!

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