What year is it? I’m not sure, but CD Projekt RED announced a new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Titled “Songs of the Past,” it will be out in 2027 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
This expansion has actually been rumored for a long time. It felt hard to believe when the rumors first came out. A 2015 game getting story DLC over ten years later? But the rumors kept circulating, and now it’s official.
There’s no word yet on what the expansion will be about, but more details will be out this summer. It feels plausible that it will connect to the upcoming fourth game in some way, but that’s still just speculation.
You know, now it doesn’t seem quite as bad that I haven’t played The Witcher 3 yet. See, I was just waiting for all the DLC to come out first!
What do you think about the new Witcher 3 expansion?
Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate was announced exactly 5 years ago, described as having a new combat system and potentially being darker in tone, and updates about it after that were few and far between.
So it wasn’t a huge shock to learn they changed directions with it, although I’m a little surprised at how up-front they were about it. In today’s short live stream, they said outright that development was restarted. They started from scratch with a new direction, and now it has a logo (pictured above) and title, Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams.
After a short teaser that gave a glimpse of the main characters and the world (which admittedly is more than we ever saw for Flames of Fate, they said it’s about a hero who has strange visions while asleep and that beyond those dreams is “surely not a world of darkness, but a bright and exciting future.”
It really sounds like the darker direction planned for Flames of Fate turned out not to be popular.
Anyway, Beyond Dreams sounds like it’s still early in development, but here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another five years before we hear about it again. In the meantime, they closed out the stream with the announcement of a new Dragon Quest Monsters game, The Withered World.
I still haven’t played any of the Dragon Quest Monsters games (besides the demo for the previous one), but I’m curious about this new game as well.
How do you feel about the latest Dragon Quest announcements?
A month ago, we discussed the surprise announcement that Exstetra would be getting a PC remaster and localization.
Originally released for the 3DS and Vita, Exstetra is a JRPG in which you awaken your allies’ powers by kissing them, and that sounds silly enough to catch my attention.
(Okay, so “never-before-localized 3DS/Vita JRPG” would have already caught my attention, but still.)
FuRyu has now announced that the PC remaster will be out on July 30 worldwide. Not only that, but Switch, Switch 2, and PS5 versions are also being developed.
They also released the opening movie (last time we only had 3DS/Vita footage to go on).
I’ll probably wait for the Switch version, which sadly doesn’t have a release date yet. But don’t worry, I’ve got plenty of games in my backlog to keep me busy until then.
What year is it? I’m not sure, but CD Projekt RED announced a new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
