{"id":85279,"date":"2016-01-14T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85279"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T10:03:25","slug":"blood-and-wine-to-be-the-best-the-witcher-3-experience-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/85279-blood-and-wine-to-be-the-best-the-witcher-3-experience-yet","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Wine to be the best The Witcher 3 experience yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All signs point to <em>The Witcher 3\u2019s <\/em>final expansion, <em>Blood and Wine<\/em>, being the best, most complete experience yet.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion was initially teased by Community Lead and Website Coordinator at CD Projekt RED, Marcin Momot, who, when referring to the expansion\u2019s features and changes on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marcin360\/status\/671683292622692352\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, called it \u201c<em>AWESOME!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a meeting looking at all these new features\/changes coming to @witchergame with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BloodandWine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BloodandWine<\/a> expansion pack. One word &#8211; AWESOME!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcin Momot (@Marcin360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marcin360\/status\/671683292622692352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minus a few vibrant, really quite enchanting screenshots, that tweet is all we\u2019ve gotten out of the game\u2019s developers. Thankfully, senior writer Jakub Szamalek has broken the silence.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.it\/articles\/2016-01-10-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-cosi-nasce-un-capolavoro-intervista\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer Italy<\/a>, Szamalek said that <em>Blood and Wine<\/em> would be \u201c<em>better than the main game.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as Szamalek is concerned, <em>Wild Hunt<\/em> lacked a charismatic enemy, something that <em>Blood and Wine<\/em> addresses. This latest antagonist, Szamalek believes, is both unique and memorable and should sell the plot of Geralt\u2019s final adventure.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion will also introduce players to an all new region, Toussaint, as well as its capital city of Beauclair \u2013 both of which are a sight to behold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-toussaint-is-famous-for-its-wine-and-vineyards.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84313\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-toussaint-is-famous-for-its-wine-and-vineyards.jpg\" alt=\"The Witcher 3 - Blood and Wine-toussaint-is-famous-for-its-wine-and-vineyards\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-toussaint-is-famous-for-its-wine-and-vineyards.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-toussaint-is-famous-for-its-wine-and-vineyards-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-toussaint-is-famous-for-its-wine-and-vineyards-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-the-palace-of-beauclair.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84311\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-the-palace-of-beauclair.jpg\" alt=\"The Witcher 3 - Blood and Wine-the-palace-of-beauclair\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-the-palace-of-beauclair.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-the-palace-of-beauclair-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/The-Witcher-3-Blood-and-Wine-the-palace-of-beauclair-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final expansion also incorporates everything the team has learnt since the release of <em>Wild Hunt<\/em>. They\u2019ve also apparently taken a lot of the feedback and criticism received for both <em>Wild Hunt <\/em>as well as <em>Hearts of Stone<\/em> and used it in the development of the conclusion to it all.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, we can\u2019t wait for this one last 20 hour hurrah.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\u2019s Blood and Wine<\/em> is set to release in the first half of 2016, and then it\u2019s onto <em>Cyberpunk 2077 <\/em>for CD Projekt RED.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/next-witcher-3-expansion-is-better-than-the-main-g\/1100-6433789\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More gaming news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/85239-5-fps-games-we-cant-wait-to-play-in-2016.html\">5 FPS games we can\u2019t wait to play in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85237-ea-will-let-you-play-nearly-any-game-on-origin-for-4-99-a-month.html\">EA will let you play nearly any game on Origin for $4.99 a month<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/85213-new-gloriously-gory-details-about-doom.html\">New, gloriously gory details about Doom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/85199-teenager-accidentally-spends-r128000-on-fifa-microtransactions.html\">Teenager accidentally spends R128,000 on FIFA microtransactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s according to CD Projekt RED&#8217;s senior writer Jakub Szamalek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":85283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13471,2122,1969,15397,1239,1853,8657,10065],"class_list":["post-85279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-blood-and-wine","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}