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I’ve Seen The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past in Action – It’s Brand New Region and Fantastic Story Set-Up Makes Me Think We Have Another Blood & Wine on Our Hands IGN har set en times demo af The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past på gamescom 2026. Den kommende udvidelse følger Geralt, der leder efter den forsvundne bard Dandelion i området Letten, og byder blandt andet på nye monstre, en sølvkæde som våben og en fortælling udviklet af Fool’s Theory. Udvidelsen lanceres næste år og ventes at have en størrelse sammenlignelig med Blood and Wine.

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Save 26% Off Kirby Air Riders for the Nintendo Switch 2 Kirby Air Riders til Nintendo Switch 2 er midlertidigt sat ned fra 69,99 til 51,99 dollar hos Amazon, svarende til en besparelse på cirka 26 procent. Spillet kombinerer racerløb med kampbaserede elementer og indeholder blandt andet Road Trip- og City Trial-spiltilstande. Artiklen fremhæver også tilbud på MicroSD Express-kort, som er nødvendige for ekstra lagerplads på Switch 2.

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While Work on The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 Continues, CD Projekt Red Ramps Up Hiring on Mysterious 'Project Hadar' CD Projekt Red opruster bemandingen på det hemmeligholdte Project Hadar, som nu har over 30 medarbejdere og ventes at nå op på 50 inden årets udgang. Projektet er stadig i konceptfasen, hvor udviklerne afprøver idéer og prototyper. Studiet prioriterer samtidig The Witcher 4, mens genindspilningen af det første The Witcher-spil er sat på pause.

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Leaked Resident Evil 4 Remake Merchant Voice Line Shows Capcom Wanted to Connect Game With Village En modder har fundet 671 færdigindtalte, men fraklippede replikker på PlayStation 5-versionen af Resident Evil 4 Remake. Materialet indeholder blandt andet en reference til The Duke fra Resident Evil Village samt dialog, der antyder, at spillere oprindeligt kunne dræbe købmanden. De uudnyttede lydfiler og animationer giver et indblik i Capcoms ændringer under udviklingen.

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The Witcher Remake Is on the Back Burner, Confirms CD Projekt Red Udviklingen af The Witcher Remake er midlertidigt sat på hold, mens Fool’s Theory hjælper med The Witcher 4 og udvidelsen Songs of the Past til The Witcher 3. CD Projekt Red forklarer, at remaken bygges på værktøjer, aktiver og produktionsprocesser fra The Witcher 4. Spillet forventes derfor tidligst efter The Witcher 4, muligvis omkring 2028.

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I Found the Best Harry Potter Deals on LEGO, Movies, and Games Happening for Back to Hogwarts 2026 IGN har samlet aktuelle Harry Potter-tilbud i forbindelse med den årlige Back to Hogwarts-fejring. Kampagnen omfatter blandt andet LEGO-sæt, 4K-samlingen med Harry Potter- og Fantastic Beasts-filmene samt LEGO Harry Potter Collection til PlayStation 5. Flere produkter er sat ned hos forhandlere som LEGO, Amazon, Walmart og Best Buy, mens der ikke er fundet særligt attraktive bogtilbud.

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'I Just Don't Want to Play It Ever Again' - TimTheTatman Turned Down Six Figure Deal to Stream Arc Raiders Streameren TimTheTatman fortæller, at han afslog en sponsoraftale på et sekscifret dollarbeløb for at spille ARC Raiders i fire timer. Han begrunder beslutningen med, at spillet frustrerede ham så meget, at han ikke ønsker at vende tilbage til det. Spillet har samtidig mistet spillere efter kritik af manglende indhold, og Embark Studios har udskudt kommende ekspeditioner til 2027.

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IKEA Announces Collaboration With The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fans Are All Saying the Same Thing IKEA har annonceret et uventet samarbejde med The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, som lanceres som en Creation den 9. september 2026. Detaljerne er endnu uklare, men en reklamevideo viser blandt andet en Kallax-reol og en runeindskrevet unbrakonøgle blandt Skyrim-genstande. Fans har især bemærket, at samarbejdet kommer før det længe ventede The Elder Scrolls 6.

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77-Year-Old Volunteer Teacher Arrested and Charged With Harassment After Striking Young Student in Altercation Over Pokemon Cards En 77-årig frivillig lærer i Alabama er blevet anholdt efter en konflikt med en elev under 10 år om Pokémon-kort. Overvågningsvideo viser ifølge politiet, at Oscar Truitt Jr. slog barnet flere gange på en folkeskole i Dothan. Han er sigtet for chikane, mens myndighederne ikke har oplyst yderligere om barnets fysiske tilstand eller hvilke kort, striden handlede om.

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Andrew Garfield’s Medieval Epic The Uprising Is Surprisingly Crossing Over With Fortnite Fortnite lancerer en gratis, brugerdefineret oplevelse baseret på filmen The Uprising, der har Andrew Garfield i hovedrollen. Den multiplayerbaserede 5-mod-5-kamp foregår i 1380’ernes England, hvor Rebels skal eskortere en rambuk mod Londons porte, mens Kingsmen forsøger at stoppe dem. Oplevelsen indeholder historisk inspirerede nærkampsvåben, buer, opgraderinger og forskellige filmiske afslutninger.

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'It's Crazy' — YouTuber Claims Rockstar Confirmed Fans Measured Oxygen Levels Around Its Campus in Anticipation for a New Trailer Den italienske YouTuber Mike ShowSha hævder, at Rockstar-medarbejdere bekræftede, at en fan målte iltniveauet omkring Rockstar North for at forsøge at forudsige en ny GTA 6-trailer. F remgangsmåden omfattede også lydudstyr, overvågning af medarbejdertrafik og camping uden for området. GTA 6 er planlagt til udgivelse 19. november 2026.

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Former Concept Artist Confirms Disney Planned a Smash Bros.-Style Crossover Fighting Game With Some Deep-Cut Characters, but It Got Canceled En tidligere konceptkunstner hos Disney har bekræftet, at virksomheden arbejdede på et crossover-kampspil med figurer fra blandt andet The Lion King, Tarzan og Treasure Planet. Projektet, med arbejdstitlen Disney's Action Figure Face Off, nåede prototypestadiet, men blev senere droppet til fordel for spil baseret på film og tv-serier. Idéen var blandt andet inspireret af Kingdom Hearts og Super Smash Bros.

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'No Consideration Is Currently Being Given' — Square Enix Responds to Rumors of Going Private Square Enix afviser et rygte om, at selskabet overvejer at blive taget af børsen. Rygtet, som blev bragt af det japanske magasin Sentaku, fik aktiekursen til at stige næsten 12 procent, men selskabet oplyser, at der ikke pågår nogen overvejelser om en privatisering. Afvisningen kommer under en bredere konsolidering i spilbranchen.

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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Review So Far - IGN IGN deler foreløbige indtryk af Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, som endnu ikke er færdigspillet. Efterfølgeren er et klassebaseret co-op-skydespil med seks klasser, herunder den nye Specialist, der kombinerer evner fra andre klasser. Missionerne er velkendte, men underholdende, især sammen med venner, mens variationen af Xenomorph-typer giver kampene særpræg. Anmelderen er dog usikker på spillets langsigtede holdbarhed.

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Humble Choice Members Can Grab 8 PC Games for Just $15 Through September’s Drop, Including Frostpunk 2, Sonic X Shadow Generations, and 6 More Humble Choice-pakken for september 2026 er nu tilgængelig med otte pc-spil til 14,99 dollar om måneden. Udvalget omfatter blandt andre Frostpunk 2, Sonic X Shadow Generations, Voidtrain og Keylocker. Nye medlemmer får desuden en måneds IGN Plus, op til 20 procent rabat i Humble Store, og fem procent af abonnementsprisen doneres til Make-A-Wish.

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‘It’s Not a Revolutionary Thing For an RPG to Have’ — Fable Explains The Very Obvious Reason as To Why Its Hero Design Has Changed Fable-instruktør Ralph Fulton forklarer, at spillets forskellige helte i trailere og gameplay blot viser mulighederne i den indbyggede figurtilpasning. Spilleren kan selv forme sin figur, herunder udseende og køn, og den nye kvindelige helt er ikke nødvendigvis et svar på tidligere onlinekritik. Fable udkommer 23. februar 2027.

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Here's How to Watch Playstation's Back-to-Back September 2026 State of Play (and Everything We Think We'll See) Sony afholder to State of Play-udsendelser den 3. september 2026: en almindelig præsentation efterfulgt af State of Play Japan. Den første begynder klokken 15.00 dansk tid, og begge streams kan ses på blandt andet YouTube, Twitch og IGN. Sony har lovet opdateringer fra PlayStation Studios og partnere samt et længere kig på Final Fantasy VII Revelation.

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Alienware sender to nye OLED-skærme på vej – den ene rammer 560 Hz - recordere.dk Alienware har annonceret to nye OLED-gamingskærme. AW3226Q er en 32-tommers 4K-skærm med 165 Hz, mens AW2527HX er en 24,5-tommers QD-OLED-model med Full HD-opløsning og en opdateringshastighed på 560 Hz til konkurrencespil. Begge modeller får tre års garanti, der dækker burn-in. Priserne er endnu ikke offentliggjort.

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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster Hands-On: Warhammer Does 2D Sidescrolling Stealth, and So Far Does it Well IGN har prøvet en kort demo af Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster, hvor spilleren styrer Skaven-karakteren Vihneek i et 2D-actionspil med fokus på stealth og platforming. Anmelderen fremhæver vægløb, udforskning og evnen til at udmanøvrere eller likvidere vagter, mens banedesignet sammenlignes med Hollow Knight. Spillets historie er endnu svær at vurdere efter den cirka 30 minutter lange demo.

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After 10 Years, Pokémon Go is Getting a Pokémon Anime Crossover Episode Pokémon GO og anime-serien Pokémon Horizons krydser for første gang officielt spor i en særlig episode, der får premiere i Japan 18. september. Professor Willow, Meltan og en PokéStop medvirker, mens elementer fra episoden også introduceres i mobilspillet. Her kan spillere blandt andet møde Captain Pikachu og fange en Charizard med beskyttelsesbriller.

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The Big Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered Interview: Launching Against GTA 6, Cutting Hedorah, and Staying (Mostly) Faithful to a GameCube Classic Pipeworks genopliver GameCube-klassikeren Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee i en ny version, der kombinerer originale animationer, lyd og gameplay med opdaterede modeller, teksturer, lys og effekter. Udvikleren fortæller i et interview om arbejdet med at flytte spillets data til Unreal Engine, hvorfor Hedorah er skåret fra, og hvordan udgivelsen håndterer konkurrencen fra GTA 6. Spillet lanceres 3. november 2026 til pc, Switch 2, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X/S.

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Viral Gaming Toilet Chair Appears to Resurface Via Facebook Marketplace — Listed as in 'Used' Condition, for $500 En hjemmelavet Fortnite-stol med indbygget spand, kendt som Battle Bucket, ser ud til at være dukket op på Facebook Marketplace. Den sælges for 500 dollar og beskrives som brugt, rengjort og stadig funktionsdygtig. Stolen blev oprindeligt viral via en TikTok-video fra 2023, og opslaget har siden fået kommentarer fra blandt andre G Fuel og en britisk esportsarrangør.

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Pokémon Fans Think The Franchise's New TCG Movie Hides a Secret Mega Evolution Pokémon-fans spekulerer i, om den lysende Mimikyu på plakaten til den kommende film Pokémon: Wild Card antyder en hidtil ukendt Mega Evolution. Filmen får premiere næste år og kan ifølge teorierne fungere som forsmag på Mega Mimikyu i enten Pokémon Winds and Waves eller en senere opdatering til Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Der er endnu ingen officiel bekræftelse.

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Eight-Player Splitscreen Added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo har udgivet en gratis opdatering til Mario Kart 8 Deluxe på Switch 2, som tilføjer split-screen-løb for op til otte spillere. Funktionen deler skærmen i otte lodrette vinduer og kræver otte controllere. Opdateringen introducerer også CameraPlay, der viser spillernes ansigter under løbene, men denne funktion er begrænset til to til fire spillere. Desuden er grafik og indlæsningstider forbedret.

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Star Wars Zero Company Started as a Pitch for a Game in the Titanfall Universe Star Wars Zero Company blev oprindeligt udviklet som et taktisk spil i Titanfall-universet efter et oplæg til Respawn Entertainment. Vince Zampella afviste idéen og bad i stedet Bit Reactor udvikle et spil baseret på Star Wars. Spillet har siden fået positive anmeldelser og nåede næsten 78.000 samtidige spillere på Steam, selv om størstedelen af studiets ansatte kort før lanceringen blev sendt hjem på orlov.

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'Consoles Are Here to Stay' — CD Projekt Red Boss Says Developer 'Isn't Worried' About Next-Gen Console Delays CD Projekt Reds meddirektør Michał Nowakowski siger, at han ikke er bekymret for, at stigende RAM-priser kan gøre konsoller dyrere eller forsinke næste generation. Ifølge ham vil indholdet fortsat være afgørende, og udvikleren vil tilpasse sig den hardware, spillerne bruger, når The Witcher 4 udkommer. Han forventer, at konsoller forbliver relevante trods udviklingen mod digitale spil.

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I’ve Seen The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past in Action – It’s Brand New Region and Fantastic Story Set-Up Makes Me Think We Have Another Blood & Wine on Our Hands

IGN har set en times demo af The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past på gamescom 2026. Den kommende udvidelse følger Geralt, der leder efter den forsvundne bard Dandelion i området Letten, og byder blandt andet på nye monstre, en sølvkæde som våben og en fortælling udviklet af Fool’s Theory. Udvidelsen lanceres næste år og ventes at have en størrelse sammenlignelig med Blood and Wine.

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Geralt carefully circles the Swarmion, his steps slowly overlapping as he sizes up his foe. The creature could be easily mistaken for any generic fantasy undead or humanoid mutant, were it not for the cloud of hornets that swarm around its torso – a bizarre form of armour by any stretch of the imagination. But our Witcher is as resourceful as ever. He switches his silver sword for a chain, swinging the hooked end round and round as he chooses his target. The creature's legs, or its head? The answer is obvious. The hook sinks into the fleshy neck and pulls taught, wrenching the creature out of the hornet swarm and pulling it directly into the path of Geralt’s blade. Blood plumes from its neck. The head falls with a dull thud.

The silver chain is an important weapon for Geralt of Rivia. Those who have been there from the beginning will remember it from The Witcher’s very first cutscene, back in 2007. Those who have been there from the actual beginning will know it from the short story within The Last Wish collection, from which that cutscene was adapted. The important thing is that it’s part of Geralt’s core Witcher gear – and so it’s only fitting that we finally get to use it in what could well be the last time we get to play as him.

Songs of the Past is The Witcher 3’s unexpected third expansion pack, which will launch next year – 12 years after the base game was originally released, and a year ahead of the series’ in-development fourth game, which passes the protagonist baton to Ciri. And Geralt’s chain-swinging monster battle was just one small section of an hour-long demo I watched at gamescom 2026, during which a member of the CD Projekt Red dev team played through the ‘A Bed of Thorns’ quest, an early chapter that establishes Songs of the Past’s story.

Geralt awakens in Letten, the homeland of his frequent partner-in-heroics, Dandelion. While much of Geralt’s life has been well documented across both Witcher books and games, Dandelion’s history is a little more of an enigma – one that Songs of the Past seems primed to crack. The quest’s opening sees Geralt trek towards a grand hilltop estate, the home where Dandelion grew up not as a bard, but as Julian Alfred Pankratz, Viscount de Lettenhove. It’s not hard to see why he left this life of nobility behind; Geralt endures a painfully tense meal with Dandelion’s incredibly stern grandmother, a woman who would make even the most pampered person want to run away from home. Also present is Lilla, Dandelion’s cousin – a much more agreeable woman and Geralt’s new companion (plus, of course, potential target of affection – although this playthrough ignored any flirtatious dialogue options.)

I hesitate to make a judgement call on Songs of the Past's writing at this early stage, but I'll understand if you've some reservations - rather than purely CD Projekt Red behind the wheel, this expansion is the work of Fool's Theory, a different studio (although one that is made up of many CDPR veterans). Thankfully, what I've seen so far suggests the quality bar has been maintained. Within just a single scene I had a very good idea of who these two women were and how their values complimented or clashed with Geralt's own well-established code.

Not at the table is surely the reason Geralt came here in the first place; his faithful bard is nowhere to be seen. And so begins Geralt and Lilla’s mission to seek out Dandelion and bring him home. But where to start? Well, in dreams: during the night Geralt had visions of blood, thorns, violets, and a well – an image Lilla recognises as The Garden of Thorns. The two meet later that day to head out in search of what should just be a bad story, but is very quickly going to become a horrifying reality.

Letten is a beautiful place, divorced from the woes of The Continent. In that way it’s a little like Blood and Wine’s idyllic Toussaint, and the comparisons don’t stop there: CD Projekt Red says to expect something of a comparable size, so it may well be that Songs of the Past extends as far as 30 or so hours. Geralt explores the old and new sides of the town, and we pass by rows of bushes entwined with wild flowers – there’s a little of Nordic midsummer in its design, blended with English and Polish countryside. It all looks beautiful, helped by the newly-announced remaster, which upgrades The Witcher 3’s technology base with higher-resolution textures and path-tracing lighting. It would be disingenuous to say it makes this decade-old RPG look like a game from the current console generation, but it’s nonetheless a beautiful thing, particularly when it comes to natural environments caught in the final rays of the day’s sun.

Letten is a beautiful place, divorced from the woes of The Continent. In that way it’s a little like Blood and Wine’s idyllic Toussaint.

But a Witcher’s job rarely stays in pleasant territory. It’s not long before Geralt and Lilla have journeyed beyond the town’s borders and found themselves in more cursed lands. Knotted trees with twisted branches form the edge of an arena in which Geralt does battle with a Thornbloom, a large vine-like plant that can cause fields of large bulbs to grow and subsequently explode. While the remaster and, by extension, Songs of the Past benefit from an upgraded combat system, it’s not obvious in this fight how substantial the change is – this very much looks like Witcher combat as usual. A little later, when the Swarmion and its hornet shield turn up, it becomes clear that the chain does add some extra flair to the proceedings, and I like that in a moment of slow-motion you’re able to target what body part Geralt sinks the hook into before grappling a far-off enemy into melee range. But until I go hands-on with the new system I’m going to assume the changes are subtle tweaks rather than a revolutionary overhaul.

Similarly, CD Projekt Red didn’t dedicate much time to exploring Geralt’s upgraded character progression systems, so it’s as yet unclear just how different things are compared to the original version. What I did see, however, were new skill pages that re-arrange the layouts of the abilities in more of a distinct tree shape, so it may be that there’s been a re-thinking of how you progress Geralt through his RPG upgrades… or at least a re-thinking of how that progression is communicated.

Geralt and Lilla continue to push through the forest and eventually make their way to a tightly-woven wall of thorns, its branches laced with violets and human skulls. At its base lies a dying deer, its blood soaked up by the horrifying structure. This is the gate to the Garden of Thorns. Beyond lies answers to the mystery of our missing Dandelion. In another playthrough, Geralt may well have used his intellect to coax those branches open – CD Projekt Red promises that there are multiple ways to navigate this problem. In the interest of time, though, the developer controlling the demo takes the path of violence, slicing the gate apart. The strike causes the garden to grow vines between Geralt and Lilla, separating them. Perhaps this is the consequence for not seeking out a more careful approach to the situation? Either way, Geralt is forced to fight through Giant Centipedes and those aforementioned Swarmions to find his way back to Lilla… and the well.

Yes, the well from Geralt’s dream is real, and defended by the Slumbering Knight, this demo’s boss fight. A noble corpse that’s become half tree, it’s able to strike and defend itself with a huge, bark-shrouded arm. But that’s not the interesting thing: around its neck is a chain finished with a horse pendant. The sigil of Lettenhove. This withered warrior is a member of Dandelion’s own house… or at least was, once upon a time. Thankfully, despite the signs this man once wore flamboyant costuming, there’s no suggestion this is Dandelion himself. The search goes on, and the next location is obvious: down the well. Will there be a devil in this one?

Not quite. But the twisted wooden figure within it, which you saw during the trailer for Songs of the Past shown at Opening Night Live, could well be mistaken for one. Quite what it is remains to be seen, as that’s where the gamescom demo suddenly cuts to black. But, considering its prominence in said trailer, this creature likely lies at the heart of this Dandelion-themed mystery.

This first taste of Songs of the Past doesn’t offer up anything radically new or unexpected. This is more of The Witcher 3, even with its remastered tech base and updated combat and ability systems. But it’s wise not to approach this project with the expectations of “new” Witcher – this is an expansion for a 11 year old game, after all. Save that enthusiasm for The Witcher 4. But still, this is an 11 year old game that has summoned me back numerous times already, and even as its joints get creaky, it’s always incredibly clear why The Witcher 3 is a generational-defining RPG. To be able to revisit it once more to play through a whole new story, meet brand new characters, and explore a rich new setting isn’t something I thought I’d ever get to do, and so in some ways that’s more interesting than a brand new game – perhaps with Songs of the Past, CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory has found a way to make coming back to a well-loved home feel like the first time all over again.

Matt Purslow is IGN's Executive Editor of Features.

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