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Disc owners on Xbox should plan the store claim for Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. Switch 2 players can pre-order the native build. Series households should clock Play Anywhere before starting a second save on PC by accident. And if your shelf already carries Wolverine bruises, leave one clear evening for a Remastered White Orchard loop just to feel the Quen glow and the mount handling before you dive back into Novigrad docks.",[25,187,188,190,191,193,194,69,199,203],{},[38,189,40],{}," lands ",[43,192,45],{},". Official art and the full announcement live on ",[11,195,198],{"href":15,"rel":196},[197],"nofollow","CDPR's Witcher news post",[11,200,202],{"href":87,"rel":201},[197],"Xbox Wire",". 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