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CD Projekt Red released The Witcher 3 Remastered on September 29, offering a free upgrade for existing owners with a reimagined skill system, expanded photo mode, and numerous technical and graphical improvements. Reviewers have praised it as an extraordinarily generous overhaul that modernizes an 11-year-old game without fundamentally altering it. The remaster is part of a larger multi-year Witcher roadmap that includes the previously revealed Songs of the Past expansion, five tracks of which have now been released early as an OST preview. In related studio news, Karolina Stachyra, writer of one of The Witcher 3's most acclaimed quests, has returned to CD Projekt after roughly a decade working at Techland and GSC Game World, rejoining the studio where her career began.