One of the more unexpected pieces of today’s Witcher 3 Remastered announcement was the Battle.net partnership, and CD Projekt Red has now published a blog post detailing how the collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment came together, along with new specifics on that Geralt-themed Diablo IV skin.
The history runs deeper than you might expect. As Global PR Director Radek Grabowski tells it, CD Projekt was Blizzard’s official distributor in Poland back in the 1990s, with employees handing out copies of StarCraft at a Warsaw trade show in 1998 while wearing shirts bearing the game’s three factions. Nearly three decades later, the studio that grew out of that distribution business is bringing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to Blizzard’s own platform, which is why CD Projekt Red is framing the whole thing as a continuation of the same story.
The post also shares more details on the new skin. The Geralt-themed Diablo IV skin will be available when pre-purchase opens for Songs of the Past on Battle.net, going to any player who buys the expansion there, and it’ll also be granted to anyone who purchases Songs of the Past when it fully launches next year. Remastered hits Battle.net simultaneously with other platforms on September 29, and CD Projekt Red says the games are “just the beginning” of the partnership, with more of the skin and further reveals planned for BlizzCon 2026 in Anaheim in September.
Honestly, this strikes me as a strange collaboration. Realistically, anyone who wants The Witcher 3, or eventually The Witcher 4, is going to just buy it on Steam, or on CD Projekt’s own GOG for that matter. There’s probably a very small percentage of gamers out there who only have the Battle.net launcher installed, but I don’t think that crowd is itching to play The Witcher. If anything, this partnership is cooler the other way around, with Blizzard games getting Witcher content instead. Cyberpunk’s V in Overwatch? Sure, why not.
For now, the Geralt skin is the only concrete crossover either company has announced, so BlizzCon is where we find out whether those teased surprises flow in the direction I’m hoping for.
