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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered Announced, Songs of the Past Gets First Look (press.cdprojektred.com)

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Songs of the Past is now available to wishlist ahead of its 2027 release. It will take players to the brand new realm of Letten — an idyllic land of rural tradition that hides a dark secret just below the surface.
Remastered — a free upgrade for existing The Witcher 3 owners on qualifying platforms — brings a slew of upgrades and enhancements to visuals, performance, gameplay, and more when it launches on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
The Witcher 3 is coming to two brand new platforms. A native version of Remastered will be released on Nintendo Switch 2, and through a new partnership between CD PROJEKT RED and Blizzard Entertainment, Battle.net — both on September 29.
All owners of The Witcher 3 can now play to two acclaimed expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — at no additional cost.

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Again? They remastered it 3/4 years ago already

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Probably to playtest a new iteration of their engine to make it ready for Witcher 4. While W3 is old, it's updated version would require PS5/Xbox Series X/S.

[–] Nukular@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No. Witcher 4 will be an Unreal Engine game.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 3 days ago

Which is a shame. I feel like REDengine was getting so close to being actually good. But I get it, though. Easier onboarding of staff etc with UE. More resources out there. More documentation. Less work on the engine and more on the game itself. I understand the reasoning, I just don't like the UE near-monopoly.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't Witcher 4 use unreal? They supposedly gave up on red engine because it caused too many headaches with cyberpunk.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

News say you are right. Still, redoing a complete game on a new engine may be an easy way to let devs and artists adapt to it.