Battle.net has spent over two decades as a launcher built almost entirely around Blizzard's own catalog. That changes on September 29, when The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered arrives on the platform, followed later by a brand-new expansion, Songs of the Past, in 2027. It's the first time a major outside AAA franchise has landed on Battle.net at this scale, not a small indie exception to the rule.
The remaster includes the base game plus the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions, with visual and gameplay updates layered on top of a game that's already sold tens of millions of copies since 2015. Songs of the Past is new story content entirely, described as pitting Geralt against threats tied to his oldest friendship, with pre-purchases and wishlists both open now on Battle.net ahead of a 2027 release.
Why Blizzard Is Doing This Now
"Battle.net has always been about bringing amazing games and worlds to our players, and we're thrilled to be welcoming one of the best," said Andrew Guerrero, VP of Blizzard Product Management. That's marketing language, but the underlying move is a real strategic shift. Steam and Epic have spent years absorbing third-party catalogs while Battle.net stayed a single-publisher storefront. Adding one of the best-selling RPGs of the last decade is Blizzard signaling it wants Battle.net to compete as a broader platform, not just a home for its own four franchises.
The two companies are framing this as a starting point rather than a one-off. CD PROJEKT RED's Jan Rosner called it "only the beginning of a broader collaboration," and the first crossover reward is already set: anyone who pre-purchases or buys Songs of the Past gets a Geralt-themed skin usable in Diablo IV, with more details coming at BlizzCon 2026 in September. Whether that turns into a real content pipeline or stays a single skin remix depends on what both studios actually ship next, and BlizzCon is where that gets tested.
