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Leaks claim that new Witcher 3 DLC may appear at The Game Awards, ten years after the RPG's launch

by editor@pcgamesn.com

A Polish leaker has doubled down on claims that developer CD Projekt Red is working on DLC for The Witcher 3, a decade after the game's release. Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine are two highlights of the original game, and some of the best pieces of DLC I've ever played-right up there with Phantom Liberty. Borys Nieśpielak first circulated these rumors in the summer, suggesting that DLC for the game would arrive in 2026, but in a recent appearance on the Rock i Borys Podcast with Remigiusz Maciaszek, he has suggested that we might find out more about the new addition at The Game Awards. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The Witcher 4 might be miles away, but Geralt and Ciri are honing their blades for some turn-based tactics this month This gorgeous Witcher 3 gaming gear is the perfect way to celebrate its 10th anniversary Best Witcher 3 mods 2025

The Witcher 4 might be miles away, but Geralt and Ciri are honing their blades for some turn-based tactics this month

by editor@pcgamesn.com

Pining for The Witcher 4? Sad to see the Netflix show approaching its end after all these years? Though there's nothing stopping you from starting your second (or fifth) run through The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt while you wait for something, anything new in the Witcher universe, you could turn your attention to a humble crossover event in an entirely different kind of game. Sword of Convallaria, one of the best turn-based strategy games of last year, is gearing up to welcome Geralt and his crew next week. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Stunning turn-based strategy game feels like the return of FF Tactics

Before The Witcher 3 launched, CD Projekt was terrified that Batman: Arkham Knight would flatten it with its Batmobile: 'They're just gonna roll over us'

by Rick Lane

When The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in 2015, its success was so overwhelming that it's hard to imagine it would have gone any other way. But from CD Projekt's perspective, success seemed far from certain in the runup to launch. In particular, the Polish studio was deeply concerned about competition from another game released that summer, Rocksteady Studios' Batman: Arkham Knight... Read more.

The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'

by Jody Macgregor

dam Badowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt Red, doesn't look back fondly on the collectible-card romance options in The Witcher 1. "It was childish in the beginning," he says when the topic comes up. He's much more pleased with how things turned out in The Witcher 3, which did justice to what he calls "the emotional aspects of the characters from the books.".. Read more.

CD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'

by Emma Withington

CD Projekt is a game industry powerhouse. After 10 years we still can't get enough of The Witcher 3, which reached 50 million copies sold in 2023 and it has the world on tenterhooks in anticipation for The Witcher 4... Read more.

CD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero

by Emma Withington

On August 14, 2013, CD Projekt announced that veteran British actor and screenwriter Charles Dance (Dracula, Game of Thrones, The Crown) would be playing the ruthless Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr var Emreis—an impressive addition to The Witcher 3 cast and a role that fit Dance like a glove. At that time his character Tywin Lannister was a fan favourite for viewers of Game of Thrones, and hadn't yet been unceremoniously killed off while on the privy. Life was good... Read more.

CD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth

by Emma Withington

It's hard to imagine a time where dark fantasy wasn't a game industry heavyweight that permeates every fiber of my being—who doesn't love tales that leave you in a moral quandary for days on end? The perceived level of complexity that you're getting into can be challenging to overcome, but over the last decade more and more games in this vein have transformed from niche outliers to something more accessible... Read more.

CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was 'pretty standard' and they didn't believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world

by Fraser Brown

It's hard to imagine anyone not having faith in The Witcher 3, an RPG that has dominated the genre for the last decade. But that was the situation CD Projekt found itself in when it was trying to sell the idea to prospective partners during development... Read more.

CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone's life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations

by Emma Withington

One of my fondest memories of playing The Witcher 3 was when I came home slightly inebriated with a friend and I thought it would be fun to try playing the game with each of us managing one half of the controls... Read more.

This gorgeous Witcher 3 gaming gear is the perfect way to celebrate its 10th anniversary

by editor@pcgamesn.com

Yes, it really has been ten years since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was first released, and what better way to accompany a long-deserved replay than by adorning your desk with this stunning Witcher 3 gaming gear from Corsair. With a keyboard, mouse, and mouse pad to choose from, you can get a full setup or just pick out your favorite piece. While the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen update in 2022 gave many of us an excuse to dive back into the game, the combination of a big anniversary and the excuse to treat yourself to some new gear means it might to time to play it all over again. What's more, every single item in this Corsair collection is a fantastic choice, with each having impressed us in our tests, and the keyboard being the top wireless choice on our best gaming keyboard guide. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Corsair facing $5.5m payout to customers over gaming RAM lawsuit Save $30 on this superb Corsair wireless gaming headset, if you're quick Save 20% on this superb ...

The surprise Witcher 3 patch adding cross-platform mod support is delayed until 2026

by Andy Chalk

Back in May, CD Projekt announced "one more patch" for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that will add cross-platform mod support through mod.io across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The update was intended to be rolled out later in 2025, but the studio said today that it's going to take a little longer than expected... Read more.

Best Witcher 3 settings for PC and Steam Deck

by editor@pcgamesn.com

Thanks to regular updates over the past few years, including the major next-gen graphical update, The Witcher 3 has never looked better on PC, but getting the best out of it will still require a little messing around in the settings menus. Luckily, we've already tested the best Witcher 3 settings for PC and Steam Deck and have detailed them below. It won't take the best graphics card to get the fastest frame rate out of The Witcher 3, but refining your graphics settings to maximize the performance of your hardware is key. If you want to make sure your hardware isn't too out of date, be sure to check out the Witcher 3 system requirements. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: This new HyperX gaming headset looks fantastic, until you see the price This new AMD powered handheld launches soon with a PS5-beating gaming GPU Get Battlefield 6 free thanks to Intel, even if you only buy a budget gaming CPU

Fancy snooping around The Witcher 3 palace from Blood and Wine? Well, this mod gives it a book-accurate interior

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It's been years, Gerry from the Riviera, but you can finally stop knocking on a certain Duchess' door in the hopes she'll let you see whether some Elven staircases are as spirally as you remember. A Witcher 3 modder has used REDKit to open those doors and had a crack at making a lore-accurate interior for Beauclair Palace, the posh setting of the fantasy game's Blood and Wine expansion. Read more

A Witcher 3 dev kept mum about a secret Blood and Wine quest epilogue for nearly a decade, until someone dug up some cut parents

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There's no way I'm learning this for the first time after ten or so years of people exploring every nook and cranny of this game. That's the thought that went through my head when I spotted a tweet from Witcher 3 quest designer Philipp Weber earlier this month, revealing that one of the Blood and Wine DLC's quests had a secret cut epilogue. I've played quite frankly far too much of the RPG over the years, and I'd never heard of it. Of course, I'm just one bloke, and hardly an endless encyclopedia containing every single bit of trivia about a decade old game. That's when I raked through the internet, and couldn't find any mentions of the cut epilogue. Surely Weber hadn't kept this under his hat for about a decade, not even mentioning it when folks found what he'd called a "last secret" by investigating the exact same quest. Er, yes, he had. Read more

Why was The Witcher 3 so dark? 'It's dishonest to always show and paint the world in a positive light'

by Jody Macgregor

s part of The Witcher 3's 10th anniversary celebration, CD Projekt Red spoke to GamesRadar about the "secret sauce" that made its quests so special. Maturity was cited as the main ingredient by Paweł Sasko, a quest designer on The Witcher 3, because the majority of its developers were entering their 30s and 40s. Also, importantly, they were Polish... Read more.