Gamescom 2026 opening, The Witcher 3 expansion 'Songs of the Past' revealed

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At Gamescom 2026 CD Projekt Red unveiled Songs of the Past, a new expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt set in the dark region of Letten. The reveal highlighted a new chain weapon and showed the expansion during the show’s opening presentations. CD Projekt Red promoted a Day 1 REDstream dedicated to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Songs of the Past. Eurogamer reported the expansion’s story was written years ago, according to Fool’s Theory CEO, and had been set aside before now. The announcement arrived as Gamescom opened in Cologne with a large in-person audience and multiple show stages and streams for major publishers.

Wes Fenlon

@wes.readonlymemo.com

Here's a bit of news you won't find at Gamescom: after 20 years, you can play Blue Dragon without an Xbox. A fanmade PC port arrives Friday, I've been playing it, and it's great:

95344d ago

ZuulGhoul42

At first I was "please don't be a slopcomp" but the sub-headline & checking the github swayed my fears. Thank GOODNESS, I'm looking forward to this!

ParadiseRegaind12

Awesome! Dare I hope one day we might see something similar for Lost Odyssey? That amazing game is stuck and doesn’t deserve to be.

Mitch Dyer1

Yesssss. Hope this is compatible with the Android handhelds too.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James86

*on hands and knees begging* Please Save My Lost Odyssey

erin plasma71

"not vibe coded" finally some good fucking food. sheesh

Sega CD Pride Month16

apparently this one is not vibecoded. i don't know much about this game other than the insanely over the top battle song that got stolen for barkley shut up and jam gaiden. maybe i should fix that

Matt the Snow Monster ☃️13

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FEAR AND AWE IN YOUR EYES

Dave Jackson | Tales from the Backlog8

These recomps for games like Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Panzer Dragoon Saga, etc are such a breath of fresh air. Those consoles in particular are still not breezy to emulate so this is a huge service!

Patchouli Business in the front, Patchouli Pleasure in the back7

So thrilled this isn't a vibecoded mess. We jailbroke an old 360 to replay this and it ran far worse than I remembered, so this'll be real nice

Lady_Nanaki7

One of my all time fave games! I am beyond excited to get my hands on this!

PixelleVT 🗝️🍋‍🟩 Luna Moth Vtuber6

I was LITERALLY just mentioning this game to @lainwithtea.bsky.social last night, maybe this is hope that we'll soon get a recomp of Lost Odyssey too?

Maytera Marble6

I've played every Dragon Quest game and Blue Dragon is a top 5 Dragon Quest

Astrid⭐️⭐️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️6

On one hand, LET'S FUCKING GO On the other...damn it's so sad fans had to actually go and port it. There are so many hidden gems locked behind the Xbox 360 exclusivity.

TBSkyen

@tbskyen.com

looking over how much shit announced at Gamescom is projects with genAI in them or from studios that are enthusiastically embracing it... boy it sure does smell like the consent factory is firing on all furnaces doesn't it?

33144d ago

Kris Winters🏳️‍🌈18

"We're all excited for the orphan-crushing machine, look at all the cool stuff it can do while crushing orphans!"

animainia5

it was honestly really depressing. more then half of it all was just ai . waste of time

Ale3

It's so crazy to watch how the dissolving of taste and capable teaching outside of the triple a norm perfectly prepared the blockbuster games industry to become so complacent with this.

Radar of the Stars 🌹1

oh no, looks like I will have to replay the Zero Escape series

Wario64

@wario64.bsky.social

Switch physical owners of The Witcher 3 will receive the free upgrade to Remastered on Sept 29

12245d ago

Dijin Grey4

Ill be double dipping if they do a full on switch 2 physical.

Flopie Sue ΘΔ2

Funny how pretty much everyone but Nintendo is doing these upgrades for free

Joshua Carpenter1

Thats awesome. Easily could've charged for this like SE does with their upgrades. Which I hate. I'm not buying the same game more than once at full price. Gonna play this after Dawnwalker.

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Samantha Ferreira 🔜 Anime NYC14

Oh, hell yeah. Reposting image with Alt Text

The Witcher

@thewitcher.com

REDstreams are taking over gamescom! If both trailers got you excited for what's to come, brace yourself! We kick off Day 1 in just 2 hours with our first REDstream dedicated to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past! www.twitch.tv/cdprojektred youtube.com/live/ZGef9LSPtQw?feature=share

Schedule listing CD PROJEKT RED’s streams at gamescom 2026 planned for Wednesday, August 26. The schedule includes:
10 AM to 10:45 AM, Welcome to Gamescom, in English.
11:15 AM to 12 noon, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past, Characters and Monsters Overview, in English.
12:30 PM to 1:15 PM, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past, Gameplay and Features Overview, in English.
3 PM to 3:45 PM, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past, Story und Welt, in German.
4:15 PM to 5 PM, Geralt und Rittersporn, Interview mit Markus Pfeiffer und Oliver Schnelker, in German.
5:30 PM to 6:15 PM, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past, Gameplay und Features, in German.
6:30 PM to 7 PM, Gamescom 2026 Day 1 Summary, in English.
The logos for CD PROJEKT RED and The Witcher are also visible in the image.

8545d ago

lex luddy goes to gamescom

@lexluddy.xyz

We are at the "Cardboard Cutout of a 5080 in a hardware display cabinet at Xbox booth at Gamescom" stage of capitalism btw...

6445d ago

Alabaster Dawn EA Out Now

@radicalfishgames.com

We're at #gamescom in Hall 10.2 D042 showcasing #AlabasterDawn at the GameUp booth! Drop by and say Hi!

6745d ago

Lupita Nihongo

@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app

My primary takeaway from Gamescom opening night was that we don’t need anymore plays on the word ‘eugenics’.

5744d ago

Lupita Nihongo50

Mewgenics? I mewted it immediately.

Official Commodore®

@commodoreofficial.bsky.social

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4645d ago

Official Commodore®31

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7bitretro1

Noooooooo! Stop making me spend money! Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the best and most engaging games (once CD Projekt Red did the updates) I’ve ever played. I have the Starlight breadbin but this is also calling out.

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Kim Justice20

I mean, there's no end of authentic orange C64's that were used by a guy named Terry who smoked a compost bag's worth of rollups every day so again, I do not see the point. Aside from glomming onto something more popular obviously

Paul [Atreides] Wood2

Me, a Cyberpunk & C64 fan: ಠ___ಠ

Elizabeth Peiró

@elizabethpeiro.bsky.social

I'm super hyped about The Witcher's Songs of the Past expansion 😍 and though of sharing this fanart of the Lady of the Lake I painted what it feels a lifetime ago (2018 I believe). I guess I'll have to replay The Witcher 3 for the thousand time in the meantime...

The Lady of the Lake from The Witcher 3 with a sword in her hands

4945d ago

Shinobi602

@shinobi602.bsky.social

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4744d ago

Jamie McKelvie

@mckelvie.bsky.social

Witcher 3 is getting a remaster? But it only came out 4 years ago, at MOST

5145d ago

Emily Doyle1

It got an upgrade 2 years ago! CDPR just keep giving.

tonči zonjić1

at that rate i'll just wait for witcher 3 3

Knoebel 🛬 Gamescom

@knoebel.bsky.social

'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered' launches September 29th. Free upgrade for previous owners. youtu.be/IGk17XQ7IrQ

4145d ago

All Will Rise by Speculative Agency is at Gamescom!

@allwillrise.bsky.social

Gamescom 2026 has started! Find All Will Rise in the Indie Arena Booth! We'd love to hear what you think of our new demo! Come take revenge on billionaires wrecking the future! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Hassan DuRant9

Another Gamescom indie I am dying to play!

Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky3

Check out @joostvervoort.bsky.social's game if you're in Cologne 🔥

StepManiaX

@stepmaniax.com

We're at gamescom this week (in Hall 10.2) with #StepManiaX, and what better way to celebrate than with, you guessed it, some new songs! Update #80 is here with tracks from Naoki Maeda, Monstercat's Arcando & Pirapus, and the return of the incredible Smile․dk, newly remastered! Out now, worldwide!

2744d ago

Ashley Schofield is at Gamescom! 🐉

@ashlikeadragon.bsky.social

quickly understanding the true gamescom experience to be sitting down Somewhere and typing up notes between appointments also it is still so fucking cool to see my name alongside RPS on that card

A laptop on my knee alongside my Gamescom ticket. There's also a (free) copy of Game Informer!

4745d ago

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