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We first reported on rumors of a new Witcher 3 DLC back at the tail end of 2025, after a Polish financial analyst and a known leaker said separately that a surprise new expansion is in the works. And while that DLC remains firmly in the realm of hopes and dreams for now, with a new year now upon us I am here to tell you that the foundation for that rumor has grown somewhat stronger.

There are two big reasons for this. The first comes from IGN Poland, which said earlier this week (Google translated) that it first heard about this new expansion, "from someone who has repeatedly provided us with reliable insider information," years ago. IGN Poland said it didn't publish anything about it at the time because the information all came from a single source (that's how actual journalism works), but in light of these new rumors it's opted to make the story public.

IGN Poland said its source at the time claimed the new expansion would take players to the far-off desert of Zerrikania, which is mentioned in passing at a few points in The Witcher games. Zerrikania is also different enough from The Witcher kingdoms we already know that it could be a place where, for instance, Ciri could successfully undergo the Trial of the Grasses, which is commonly believed to kill girls who attempt it—although The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski clarified in 2025 that he never said in his books that women can't survive the process and, in fine Sapkowski fashion, he doesn't care either way.

CD Projekt said during that same call, in March 2025, that it still needed to generate a little more than 1 billion Polish zloty (around $277 million) by the end of 2026 in order to achieve that incentive program target—something one investor on the call noted would be "extremely difficult" without releasing any new products.

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