Digital Extremes Provides Warframe, Soulframe Updates

Digital Extremes held its annual TennoCon event this past weekend in London, Ontario. During the event, the company released new information for its ongoing free-to-play sci-fi MMORPG Warframe and a new gameplay showcase for its upcoming free-to-play fantasy action MMORPG Soulframe.

Warframe: Tau is Warframe’s next narrative chapter and takes players to the new Star Chart, the Tau System, and will be available on all platforms later this year. It sees players visit Sentient ring city of Fornax, which features constant black rain and a criminal underworld with faction in-fighting. Players will challenge a crime boss known as the Hunra, voiced by Jonathan Bullock, who rules over the city by overseeing the production and distribution of an addictive substance called Bloom. Tau will introduce a new Sentient Warframe named Brysko. While silent to the world outside, he has an active inner monologue (voiced by Matthew Mercer). He was created by Albrecht Entrati to infiltrate the Hunra’s inner circle.

Tau will introduce Warframe’s first card-based mini-game, Portau. It is said to iterate on the rules of poker, featuring its suits of Blooms, Cores, Moons, and Suns and is extremely popular in the Hunra’s gambling dens. In addition to the new Fornax environment, It will also add the new Fornax Drowners Sentient enemy faction. Other new content coming alongside Tau includes Amir’s Shockwave, a new side story coming in August that offers a take on the Nightwave free battle pass, and the “Iceblade of Narin” fall update, which will introduce the female ice-themed 66th Warframe.

Warframe originally released for PC in 2013 before later coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch 2. The game is set in a fractured universe and sees players join an ancient class of warriors called the Tenno, using bio-metal suits called Warframes to fight against hordes of enemies.

Meanwhile, the gameplay showcase for Soulframe offers a look at both story and gameplay elements for the game. It also showcases some of its new voiceovers, including performances from Ben Starr and Jennifer English. The video also reveals that the “Warsongs” update for the game’s pre-alpha “Preludes” version is planned to be made available to those with access around fall 2026.

Soulframe is set in a separate universe to Warframe, taking place on the world of Alca. Using the Spellsong, the sky gods have made the people forget their past history and culture. Players control an Envoy, who retains their connection to the spirits and ancestors and sets out to save the people from the gods and their servants, the Ode. The game was originally announced in 2022, with its first “Preludes” version released in 2023. The full game has not yet been dated, but is planned to release on PC and consoles.