{"id":604509,"date":"2026-08-25T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604509\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:16:15","slug":"the-witcher-3-is-getting-a-remaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/604509\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt \u2014 Remastered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewitcher.com\/us\/en\/witcher3#expansion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will bring<\/a> improvements to visuals and combat, a \u201creimagined\u201d skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Remastered will be a free upgrade for players who own the base game on GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X \/ S. With the launch of Remastered, The Witches 3 will also be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">This remastered version of The Witcher 3 (which follows a next-gen upgrade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/12\/12\/23505545\/the-witcher-3-next-gen-update-ps5-xbox-pc-hands-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released in 2022<\/a>) is the start of a big push for the franchise over the next few years. CDPR is set to launch a brand new Witcher 3 expansion, titled Songs of the Past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/937970\/the-witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-expansion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2027<\/a>, and it\u2019s aiming to release its next mainline Witcher game, The Witcher 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/983822\/the-witcher-4-release-window-gamescom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in 2028<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,213,61,60,43,80],"class_list":["post-604509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}