An unlikely collaboration has been revealed between Blizzard Entertainment and CD Projekt Red, the studios behind Diablo and The Witcher series, respectively.
The two companies announced the team-up in separate blogs posted to their respective websites, with CDPR sharing a substantive breakdown of the studios’ relationship with each other, and Blizzard opting for a more straightforward explanation of what the collab actually means right now.
The TLDR is that The Witcher 3: Remastered, which was announced during today’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, is coming to Blizzard’s Battle.net launcher when it releases on September 29. Meanwhile, the upcoming Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, will also come to Battle.net when it launches next year, and if you pre-order it, you’ll get a Geralt of Rivia-inspired skin in Diablo 4.
That’s exciting enough, but it sounds like CDPR and Blizzard have a lot more planned for their big new partnership that’s still to be revealed. “Both CD PROJEKT RED and Blizzard Entertainment create worlds that allow players to immerse themselves in captivating adventures for hundreds of hours,” says CDPR global PR director Radek Grabowski in a statement. “Both studios have always had the ambition to raise the bar — for themselves and, in doing so, for the video game industry. Their worlds and characters have inspired not only other game developers, but also musicians, filmmakers, cosplayers, and, of course, countless players.”
The official CDPR Twitter account adds: “And that’s just the beginning of our partnership with Blizzard…”
According to Blizzard, we’ll learn more about its collab with CDPR during this year’s BlizzCon, which takes place on Saturday, September 12, and Sunday, September 13. GamesRadar+ will be in attendance and you can bet your bottom dollar we’ll give you all of the firsthand details as they come.