{"id":13610,"date":"2026-05-28T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:03","slug":"cd-projekt-teases-size-and-story-of-new-the-witcher-3-expansion-songs-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextlevelnews.co.uk\/blog\/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":"
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The Witcher 3<\/a> developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the game’s upcoming third expansion, Songs of the Past.<\/p>\n

Officially confirmed yesterday, Songs of the Past will arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S in 2027<\/a> and once again allow players to take on the role of legendary monster slayer Geralt.<\/p>\n

The expansion will launch 12 years after The Witcher 3’s original debut in 2015, and 11 years after the game’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<\/a>, which still lacks a release date.<\/p>\n

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“We won’t give too much away right now because we want you to experience it as you play,” senior community and social media manager Laura Beitzel teased today during a 10th anniversary livestream<\/a> designed to celebrate Blood and Wine. <\/p>\n

“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… keep looking for clues.”<\/p>\n

Here, Beitzel is referencing a piece of artwork and a poem it sneakily posted<\/a> 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’s also holding in Songs of the Past’s reveal artwork, which sports an unusual ornate curved crossguard.<\/p>\n

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Belleteyn has been referenced in The Witcher before, and is a fertility festival that takes place each spring. Here is the image’s accompanying poem, in case you want to scour it for further clues:<\/p>\n