Witcher 3 Set to Receive Two Big Expansions in Late 2015 and Early 2016

Written by Brandon Hofer on April 07, 2015

News: CD Projekt Red have revealed that there will be two massive expansions for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with 30 new hours of gameplay.

The Witcher 3 comes out next month but earlier today CD Projekt Red revealed two massive expansions that they are currently working on. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as Geralt of Rivia, a professional monster slayer tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.

“With the development of Wild Hunt coming to an end, the team has embarked upon the creation of two new really big adventures set in The Witcher universe,” says Marcin Iwiński, CD Projekt Red co-founder. “We remember the time when add-on disks truly expanded games by delivering meaningful content. As gamers, we’d like to bring that back. We’ve said in the past that if we ever decide to release paid content, it will be vast in size and represent real value for the money. Both our expansions offer more hours of gameplay than quite a few standalone games out there.”

Hearts of Stone will take Geralt on an all-new, 10-hour-plus adventure into the wilds of No Man’s Land and the nooks and alleys of Oxenfurt, where he’ll try to complete a contract from the mysterious Man of Glass. Caught in a thick tangle of deceit, Geralt will need all his cunning and strength to solve the mystery and emerge unscathed.

Blood and Wine, a 20-hour-plus tale that will introduce the all-new in-game region of Toussaint, will take Geralt to a land untainted by war, where an atmosphere of carefree indulgence and knightly ritual masks an ancient, bloody secret.

“While we’re offering the Expansion Pass now, we want to make one thing clear: don’t buy it if you have any doubts. Wait for reviews or play The Witcher and see if you like it first. As always, it’s your call,” Iwiński concludes.

The upcoming expansions will offer gamers new adventures, gear and foes and will feature characters both new and dearly missed -- all crafted with maximum attention to detail and quality by the joint forces of CD Projekt Red’s Warsaw and Cracow studios.

The “Hearts of Stone” content is slated for release in October, while “Blood and Wine” is slated for release in the first quarter of 2016. Both expansions will be available on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. What do you think about this new content? The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt already has hundreds of hours worth of content and now this new content adds another 30. There were no pricing details revealed at this time. Will you be buying this new content when it becomes available later this year and in the early part of 2016?