Tag: The Witcher
News The Witcher 4 Can't Be Another Cyberpunk 2077, and CD Projekt Red Knows It
"We lost some people's faith indefinitely"
Cyberpunk 2077 may have gone on to become a commercial juggernaut, but it took the open world RPG years to get there, having finally overcome the damage that had been done by its brutally botched launch. As you'd imagine, developer CD Projekt Red really doesn't want to repeat that mistake with The Witcher...
Rumour The Witcher Co-Op Action RPG in Development, and You Make Your Own Character
But there's no mention of consoles yet
Well this is a rather interesting rumour, isn't it? A new report from MP1st claims that CD Projekt Red has an unannounced co-op action RPG in the works at a currently unconfirmed studio — and it's set in the universe of The Witcher. This supposedly free-to-play project is targeting PC and mobile platforms...
News The Witcher 3's New Expansion Will Be Fully Revealed at Gamescom in August
Songs of the future
CD Projekt Red has confirmed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past — the game's brand new expansion — will get its full reveal at Gamescom 2026. In fact, the DLC will actually be on show in the developer's dedicated area, so it's fair to expect a proper blowout ahead of its intended 2027 release. This year,...
CD Projekt Red reiterates what an "expansion" is
Following yesterday's reveal of new The Witcher 3 content in the form of Songs of the Past, CD Projekt Red has leaned into its definition of what an expansion is, as opposed to standard DLC. This is something the Polish developer has talked up before, and was also commented on by Idris Elba in the...
News Third Witcher 3 DLC Is Real! Songs of the Past Comes to PS5 in 2027
More details coming late summer
After many rumours and much speculation, CD Projekt Red has announced a third expansion for The Witcher 3 really is happening. It's called Songs of the Past and it's coming to PS5 (no PS4 version) in 2027. The developer pitches the DLC as the following: "Songs of the Past will return players to the role of legendary...
News The Witcher 3 Dev Announces Anniversary Stream, Gets Bombarded with Rumoured DLC Demands
Aw sh*t, here we go again
CD Projekt Red fans just never learn, do they? And I happily count myself amongst them. The developer has announced a livestream for the 28th May, celebrating the tenth (tenth!) anniversary of The Witcher 3's second expansion, the outstanding Blood and Wine. There is nothing to suggest that this will be anything other...
News CD Projekt Red Puts Impressive Effort into Witcher 3 April Fools Joke
Introducing Project R.O.A.C.H.
There are always varying qualities of April Fool's jokes on display each year, and what CD Projekt Red has done this time around certainly lands on the premium end. It's pitching a horse-based controller add-on that ensures Roach always sticks to the road when you're riding her in The Witcher 3. It's codenamed Project...
News The Witcher 3's New Expansion Really Does Exist, Says Reliable Insider
Medallion's humming
If recent rumours are to be believed, The Witcher 3 is getting a brand new expansion at some point in the relatively near future — and now, a known insider has added yet more weight to the whispers. Reliable leaker NateTheHate took to X (also known as Twitter) in order to answer some quickfire questions over the weekend. When...
News New Witcher Game Announced, But You Won't Play It on PS5
Only on PC and mobile phones
A new entry in The Witcher series was announced today, but you won't find it on the PS Store to download — in fact, you won't find it on any games console. Reigns: The Witcher is a new "swipe 'em-up" title for PC and smartphones. It's releasing on 25th February 2026, and here's the pitch: As Geralt of Rivia,...
News The Witcher 3 Really Could Be Getting a New Expansion on PS5 in 2026
To tide us over until The Witcher 4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt first released to critical acclaim all the way back in 2015, but it could be getting an all-new expansion later this year. That’s the rumour that’s circulating right now, with relatively strong reporting behind it. Speculation has been swirling for a while, ever since Polish industry...
News The Witcher Dev Still Wants to Release Ciri's Whole Trilogy Within Six Years
Are you Cirious?
The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red is reportedly sticking to its plan to release not one, not two, but three new games within a six year period. To be clear, the company's referring to the new trilogy, which starts with The Witcher 4. The Ciri-led adventure doesn't have a release date (or even a release window) yet, but the idea...
News The Witcher 4 Skips Game Awards for 2025, No New Trailer
After picking up Most Anticipated Game nominee
CD Projekt RED won't be bringing a new trailer for The Witcher 4 or any fresh piece of footage to The Game Awards next month, after it first debuted the new RPG at the show last year. CEO Michał Nowakowski shared the news in a social media post, where he thanked everyone who voted for The Witcher 4 to...
News 'We Want to Innovate': The Witcher 4 Dev Finds Inspiration in Baldur's Gate 3
Talk the talk
When you think of landmark western RPGs of the modern era, it's likely that two games immediately come to mind: The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3. It's obviously the latter that's had more impact in recent times, setting a new benchmark for choice-driven adventures — to the point where it's now being named as an inspiration for The...
News Key Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Writer and Designer Joins The Witcher 4 Team
Things are getting Cirious
A prominent member of Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios has just joined CD Projekt Red to work on The Witcher 4. Karel Kolmann was part of the Czech outfit for just over eight years, and took on some important roles during that time. Primarily, he was a gameplay designer, but also acted as a writer and...
News The Witcher 3 Mod Support on PS5 Delayed into 2026
Meditate until then
Previously planned to launch by the end of this year, mod support for The Witcher 3 on consoles — including PS5 — has now been delayed into 2026. This is to be the open world RPG's final, final update, allowing console players to take advantage of community-driven creations. However, CD Projekt Red clearly needs a little...
News The Witcher 4 Being Built for PS5 First and Foremost, Will Target 60fps
Big ambitions
CD Projekt RED has, historically, focused on the PC versions of its games, and then dialled them down for console. But this hasn’t always been a successful strategy for the studio. For example, many fans criticised the Polish studio for downgrading The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt prior to release, while Cyberpunk 2077’s issues on the PS4...
News Don't Expect The Witcher 4 to Look Like That Unreal Tech Demo When It Launches on PS5
Press X to doubt
CD Projekt RED momentarily dropped jaws this week when it showed a demo of The Witcher 4, running at 60fps with ray tracing on a bog-standard PS5. Of course, among the hanging tongues was a hearty helping of scepticism: can Sony’s current console, released in 2020, really do that? After all, not even showpiece first-party titles...
News The Witcher 4 Gameplay Revealed, Running on PS5 at 60fps with Ray Tracing
Unreal stuff
CD Projekt Red has given us our first real look at The Witcher 4, but the big surprise here is that the game's Unreal Engine 5 tech demo — just showcased during Unreal Fest — is running on a base PS5. The studio says that the current build runs at 60 frames-per-second with ray tracing on Sony's current-gen system, and it looks...
News First Witcher 4 Footage Could Be Coming This Week
Unreal
Our first glimpse of The Witcher 4 could be incoming, as CD Projekt Red has confirmed that it'll be presenting at State of Unreal on the 3rd June. As the name suggests, State of Unreal is a tech-driven showcase for everything Unreal Engine. The Polish developer promises a look at "some of the innovative technology & features that will...
News The Witcher 3 Final Patch Confirmed, Adds Mods on PS5
Coming later this year
As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, CD Projekt RED has shared it is working on one final patch for The Witcher 3. Arriving later this year, the update will bring mod support to the PS5 version of the RPG. In a blog post, the developer revealed: "Later this year, we will release one more patch for The Witcher 3: Wild...
Poll 10 Years Later, What Are Your Thoughts on The Witcher 3?
The way the wind howls
Ten years is a long time. An awful lot can happen in such a span, but we think one constant has remained since this day all the way back in 2015: The Witcher 3 is still an incredible video game. First released on the 19th May 2015, the third title in CD Projekt Red's series took the gaming world by storm. It was met with rave...
News The Witcher 4's Awesome Reveal Trailer Wins Prestigious Art and Design Award
Ciri-ous business
The reveal trailer for The Witcher 4, which debuted during The Game Awards last year, has gone on to win a pretty big award. The ADC Annual Awards celebrate craft and creativity across a wide spectrum of artistic endeavours. They cover fields like architecture, illustration, and photography, while also highlighting works in...
News The Witcher 3 Turns 10 This Month, CD Projekt Red Wants to 'Celebrate Together'
3's a magic number
Originally released on the 18th May 2015, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will celebrate its 10th anniversary in just a couple of weeks' time. Building up to said celebrations, developer CD Projekt Red has posted a reminder across social media, stating that it wants to "celebrate together". It's also handed us some lovely new artwork...
News The Witcher 4 Dev Warns Against Beta Test Scam
Geralt of here
In what will probably end up being the weirdest news story of the day, The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has felt the need to post an official statement regarding some kind of ongoing scam. Apparently, the scam in question revolves around people being invited to beta test The Witcher 4 — the highly anticipated sequel that was...
Stick to what you know
It's said it before on multiple occasions, but it's always nice to hear CD Projekt reiterate its commitment to making single-player games. As part of the company's latest earnings briefing, co-CEO Michal Nowakowski gave everyone exactly what they wanted to hear, stating that although "the video game market continues to...
News The Witcher Anniversary Concert World Tour's First Dates Revealed, More to Come
Woodwind's howling
CD Projekt Red has announced, as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (can it really have been that long?), the first two tour dates for a globe-trotting tour, with more dates and locations forthcoming. Fittingly enough, The Witcher in Concert will begin in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 31st and...
News CD Projekt Red Confirms Ciri Recast for The Witcher 4 on PS5
The Lion Cub of Cintra is still the same on the inside
Developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Ciara Berkeley will play Ciri, the protagonist of the just-revealed The Witcher 4. The role was previously portrayed by Jo Wyatt in The Witcher 3. Fan speculation started to swirl immediately after the reveal trailer aired on Friday, and CDPR has since...
News The Witcher 4 Announced Starring Ciri
Are you Cirious
The next The Witcher game from CD Projekt Red has been officially revealed. It's called The Witcher 4 (that was easy!) and it stars a more mature Ciri — the woman Geralt effectively raised as his daughter, and tracked down in The Witcher 3. All we've got right now is this pretty great CG trailer. No release window has been...
News Geralt Actor 'Slapped by CD Projekt', Walks Back The Witcher 4 Comments
"I don't know how true it is. I went off a rumour"
It seems Doug Cockle, the English voice of Geralt in The Witcher series since it began, got in some hot water over the comments he made back in August (resulting in articles like this). Cockle claimed that The White Wolf would be "part of the next game" but that the story wouldn't be "about him this...
News The Witcher 4 Hits Huge Dev Milestone, Enters Full Production
Baptism of Fire
Polaris, the project name for the next The Witcher title, has just hit an all-important milestone in its development process. Director Sebastian Kalemba has taken to social media in order to reveal that the game — commonly referred to as The Witcher 4 — is now in "full-scale production". Typically, this means that the bones of...
News Wind's Howling Through This Netflix The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep Clip
Nothing but a softy
It feels like an eternity since the release of CD Projekt Red's groundbreaking RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and though a sequel is in the works, Geralt of Rivia will not be the protagonist. Thankfully, you can get your fix of gravelly-voice
News The Witcher 4 Close to Full Production, Next Cyberpunk Progressing as Planned
Slow your role
It's been a good few months since we last heard from CD Projekt, but it sounds like the company's still got everything under control. As has been widely reported, it currently has two separate teams working on the next game in The Witcher series (commonly referred to as The Witcher 4), and the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077. The Witcher 4...
News Geralt Voice Actor Confirms Role in The Witcher 4, White Wolf Will Be 'Part of the Game'
This world needs a professional, not a hero
While The Witcher trilogy has primarily followed the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, all of that will change in the next entry in CD Projekt Red series', colloquially known as The Witcher 4. However, this transition will be eased by one Doug Cockle, the voice actor responsible for bringing Geralt to life,...
News The Witcher Congratulates Elden Ring's DLC Triumph with Awesome Artwork
The best of the best
In case you haven't already heard, the newly released Shadow of the Erdtree expansion for Elden Ring is now the highest-rated DLC of all time, settling on a staggering PS5 Metacritic score of 95. But of course, where one game rises, another must fall — and so The Witcher 3's brilliant Blood and Wine expansion has been knocked...
News Feast Your Eyes on Liam Hemsworth as Geralt in The Witcher Season Four
Blaviken, butchered?
Previously only glimpsed, we've gotten our first official look at the new Geralt of Rivia, Liam Hemsworth, who has taken up the mantle of the White Wolf from Henry Cavill in season four of Netflix's The Witcher adaptation. In the short teaser, we see Hemsworth looking particularly brooding in the snow-covered woods, along with...
News The Witcher's Ciri Says She Hopes Fans Give Liam Hemsworth a Chance as Geralt
"That fan base can be very attack-y"
Netflix's The Witcher has quietly been blazing a trail for the recent mainstream acceptance of video game IP making the jump to TV, best exemplified by HBOs The Last of Us and Amazon's Fallout adaptations. We learned in 2022 that Henry Cavill would be laying down his swords at the end of Season 3, with Australian...
News New Witcher Comic Continues After The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
A witcher's work is never done
Dark Horse and CD Projekt Red have announced a new comic series based on The Witcher — or more specifically, the four-issue story takes place beyond the conclusion of Geralt's journey in The Witcher 3. In the game's Blood and Wine expansion, the grizzled monster slayer can end up owning an old vineyard, and this is...
News The Witcher 4 Must 'Build a New Community', Aims to Exceed Predecessor Entirely
Breaking the boundaries of the RPG genre
Project Polaris, colloquially known as The Witcher 4, is now developer CD Projekt Red's primary focus since Phantom Liberty sent Cyberpunk 2077 out on a high note, and anticipation is high. The game's director, Sebastien Kalemba, has she
News The Witcher 4 Is Now CD Projekt Red's Main Focus as Work Wraps Up on Cyberpunk 2077
Wind's howling
As part of its latest earnings report, CD Projekt Red has provided an update on the state of its current projects, as of the 31st October, 2023. Now that it's all but wrapped up major support for Cyberpunk 2077 — following the release of Phantom Liberty in September and the announcement of the Ultimate Edition — the company's...
'Micro'-transactions
As noted in our coverage of the reveal, Destiny 2's new, The Witcher 3-inspired crossover cosmetics look cool, but knowing the general state of microtransactions in live service games, they're probably going to cost a small fortune. Taking that thought and running with it, players are already dragging Bungie's plans through the...
News Alright, Destiny 2's Witcher 3 Crossover Armour Is Cool
Make a wish
We'll admit, it's been quite some time since we wrote anything genuinely positive about Destiny 2, but we're willing to give it up for this newly revealed crossover. Bungie's teamed with CD Projekt Red to craft some really cool looking cosmetics based on The Witcher 3, which decks out Titans, Warlocks, and Hunters in armour that...
News Gravelly-Voiced Geralt Voice Actor to Reprise Role in The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
Doug Cockle is back on deck
Fellow walkers of The Path rejoice: the gravelly voice of Geralt you know and love from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is reprising the role in an animated movie coming to Netflix called The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. The inimitable Doug Cockle will return sometime "late" next year in the film, which will see Geralt...
News The Witcher 3's Tragically Misunderstood Rock Troll, Werewolf Get Dark Horse Figures
Surpisingly human
Dark Horse Direct has just unveiled the latest additions to its growing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt collection, adding the tragically misunderstood Rock Troll and Werewolf figurines to its roster. Both are made of lovingly detailed PVC, with the Werewolf measuring 12 inches in length and the more diminutive Rock Troll coming in at a...
News PS Plus Premium Adds Four-Hour Trial for One of the Best RPGs Ever Made
Geralt of here
If you've somehow never played The Witcher 3, then you may be interested in knowing that a trial for the landmark RPG is now available through PS Plus Premium. The four-hour sample can be played on both PS5 and PS4, but it's worth noting that the PS5 version is the much enhanced Complete Edition, which launched last year. Now, four...
News The Witcher 3 PS5, PS4 Update 4.04 Is Out Now, Fixes Ray Tracing Mode
Get all the patch notes here
CD Projekt RED has today unleashed patch 4.04 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt across both PS5 and PS4 consoles. This update is designed to fix a number of minor issues relating to side quests, and on PS5 more specifically, improves the graphical mode that utilises ray tracing. The RPG should be more stable after loading a...
Random Geralt of Rivia Gets Gorgeous Bishoujo Makeover in Figurine Form
Ciri's up next
Geralt of Rivia is getting a makeover like never before, with a high-end figurine of the character being rendered in bishoujo ("beautiful girl") style from specialist manufacturers Kotobukiya. In fact, Kotobukiya has partnered with CD Projekt to produce a range of figures (229mm tall) based on characters from the series, and Ciri is...
News Work on the Next Main Witcher Game Is Ramping Up as Cyberpunk Expansion Nears Release
A witcher's work is never done
CD Projekt Red has published its latest business overview online, and as is usually the case with the Polish company's reports, the documentation details the games that are currently in development. Right now, most of CDPR's teams are still hard at work on finishing Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, which is still set...
News The Witcher 3 Sales Top a Ridiculous 50 Million
Geralt of here
There are some evergreen games that just end up going far beyond sales expectations. Grand Theft Auto V, for example, is still featured in best sellers lists, having surpassed an utterly insane 180 million copies in its lifetime. And although the vast, vast majority of titles released today could never even dream of reaching that kind...
News The Witcher 3 Patch 4.03 Fixes Autosave Stuttering on PS5, City Frame Rate, Visual Bugs
Out today
A new update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been released, and it promises to fix some very specific issues on PS5. Patch 4.03 aims to finally remove the annoying stutter that occurs when the game is autosaving, while also squashing the graphical bug that makes Geralt's character model flicker in the equipment screen. Hurrah! What's...
News The Witcher 3 'the Best It's Ever Been' with Latest PS5 Update
Smooth sailing
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition is "the best it's ever been" on PS5, according to those eggheads over at Digital Foundry. The team's latest video goes in-depth on update 4.02, which launched last month. This patch promised to improve performance across the board, and based on Digital Foundry's findings, that's exactly...
