Goodbye free time: The Witcher 3 New Game + DLC is finally out

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This is the first moment of the rest of your witching life: The Witcher 3's New Game + DLC is out now across all platforms, letting you begin Geralt's journey anew with more experience, your old gear, and tougher enemies. You will have to start over on your Gwent card collection, though.

The New Game + mode closes out three busy months for CD Projekt Red as the last of 16 free DLC add-ons. Now the studio can get cracking on those two story expansions which will be "almost the size of The Witcher 2." This is all great news for Witcher fans, but it's also great news for everybody hoping to hear more about Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red's other ongoing project) before 2020 - which, somewhat depressingly is when the Cyberpunk role-playing game was originally set.

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I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and now I'm a staff writer here at GamesRadar.

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