The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt delayed to May 19th, 2015

CD Projekt RED took the wraps off a brand new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt trailer this weekend, impressing many and provoking concern in others who believe that the game has suffered a visual downgrade since we last laid eyes on it.In addition CD Projekt RED issued a statement today revealing that The Witcher 3 has been delayed a further three months, and will now launch on May 19th worldwide. Whilst the game is nearing completion, the CD Projekt Board explain that it needs the extra time in order to ensure that as many bugs have been eliminated as possible, "to a level that will allow you to enjoy the game thoroughly."You can check the controversial Elder Blood trailer below, with many eagle-eyed viewers claiming that this latest trailer suffers from lower-resolution textures to what we’ve seen previously. Presumably CD Projekt RED would be running all of its trailers on the PC version, which could be worrying news, but we’d be surprised if the Polish video game developer hampered the PC version at all.The ire of the gaming community quickly grabbed the attention of CD Projekt RED, and community manager Marcin Momot responded, blaming the supposedly poor visual quality on Youtube’s compression."I believe some explanation is required here,” he reassured. “Unfortunately this time we've encountered some horrible YouTube compression problems. At this very moment we are working on fixing this and will upload another version of the trailer as soon as we can. It will present much higher quality. I want to assure you that there will be no downgrade – I see this game every day – it looks stunning."

It all looks pretty great so far to me but hey ho! The trailer itself reveals a few new returning faces, but CD Projekt RED is still keeping things pretty under wraps for now. During the announcement of this trailer though the developer did reveal that this third outing would contain at least one more playable character, which is rumoured to be a grey-haired woman called Ciri.Of the delay CD Projekt RED said; "We owe you an apology. We set the release date too hastily. It's a hard lesson, one to take to heart for the future. We know what we want to do to make Wild Hunt one of the best RPGs you will ever play. And we continue to work hard to achieve just that. So, we apologize and ask for your trust."