Witcher 3 DLC rumors decide up power as IGN Poland says it knew about all of this years in the past

We first reported on rumors of a new Witcher 3 DLC again on the tail finish of 2025, after a Polish monetary analyst and a identified leaker mentioned individually {that a} shock new growth is within the works. And whereas that DLC stays firmly within the realm of hopes and goals for now, with a brand new 12 months now upon us I’m right here to inform you that the muse for that rumor has grown considerably stronger.

There are two huge causes for this. The primary comes from IGN Poland, which mentioned earlier this week (Google translated) that it first heard about this new growth, “from somebody who has repeatedly offered us with dependable insider info,” years in the past. IGN Poland mentioned it did not publish something about it on the time as a result of the knowledge all got here from a single supply (that is how precise journalism works), however in gentle of those new rumors it is opted to make the story public.

IGN Poland mentioned its supply on the time claimed the brand new growth would take gamers to the far-off desert of Zerrikania, which is talked about in passing at just a few factors in The Witcher video games. Zerrikania can be totally different sufficient from The Witcher kingdoms we already know that it might be a spot the place, as an example, Ciri might efficiently bear the Trial of the Grasses, which is usually believed to kill ladies who try it—though The Witcher writer Andrzej Sapkowski clarified in 2025 that he by no means mentioned in his books that ladies cannot survive the method and, in wonderful Sapkowski style, he does not care both means.

The second motive the rumor feels a minimum of considerably grounded is way extra sensible, and has nothing to do with the sport. As a substitute, it is all about CD Projekt itself. It’s possible you’ll recall that when CD Projekt mentioned The Witcher 4 will not be out till 2027 on the soonest, it did so utilizing some archaic corpo-financial converse throughout an traders name: “The sport won’t be launched inside the time-frame of the primary goal for the motivation program which ends thirty first of December.”

CD Projekt mentioned throughout that very same name, in March 2025, that it nonetheless wanted to generate a bit of greater than 1 billion Polish zloty (round $277 million) by the top of 2026 to be able to obtain that incentive program goal—one thing one investor on the decision famous could be “extraordinarily troublesome” with out releasing any new merchandise.

To repeat what I mentioned in December, all of that and 20 bucks will get you a replica of the sensible Witcher 3 growth Blood and Wine (which you actually ought to play if you have not already): CD Projekt has remained stubbornly closed-mouthed about the entire thing, and we have no helpful leaks from, say, PEGI or Ubisoft that successfully confirms it. However the sheer weight of the claims are beginning to add up. I can not say that I imagine simply but, however I need to.

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