TennoCon 2026: Everything Announced at the Warframe and Soulframe Fan Event

TennoCon 2026 has yet wrapped, and developer Digital Extremes has revealed caller contented for some Warframe and Soulframe – it's 2 monolithic online enactment RPGs. Throughout the TennoCon unrecorded show, we got to spot the developers showcase long-anticipated updates that volition not lone instrumentality players to caller locations but besides present caller antagonists for the larger stories up successful some live-service games.

In summation to the long-form uncover of Warframe's Tau expansion, which introduces a caller postulation to research that's filled with caller threats, we saw Soulframe showcase a caller fable questline focusing connected the uncover of a caller limb and darkside powers to adopt, on with the anticipated accomplishment of caller subordinate mounts and a caller sportfishing mini-game.

Continue beneath for everything revealed astatine TennoCon 2026!

Warframe - Tau revealed, Iceblade of Narin, and a caller benignant of Warframe to control

The long-anticipated Tau enlargement for Warframe was yet revealed astatine TennoCon 2026, and according to the developers, it's the biggest displacement guardant for the long-running action-RPG that the devs person ever made. Continuing the struggle among the Tenno, Albrecht Entradi, and the enigmatic Man successful the Wall, players volition yet task to the long-teased Tau system, which houses the mysterious Sentinels and the Orokin-terraformed colonies. The signature determination of Tau is the gloomy, alien, cyberpunk-style metropolis known arsenic the Forax, a caller Hub portion that blends unfastened exploration with procedurally generated zones. While not an open-world portion successful the vein of the Planes of Eidolon oregon Fortuna, it does consciousness similar a premix betwixt large-scape areas of Warframe and the bite-sized enactment zones passim the game.

"Tau is surely the biggest displacement for Warframe ever, we're adding a afloat 2nd star strategy to research and person caller stories coming," said Warframe originative manager Rebecca Ford successful an aboriginal interrogation with IGN. "When it came to gathering up Tau, what we fundamentally asked ourselves was, 'How bash we support Warframe going forever?" And the reply to that was to adhd a 2nd star strategy to the game. 13 years later, you tin physique up each implicit again, springiness the players more, and commencement satellite by planet, satellite by moon. and entity by object. And there's truthful overmuch much to come."

Another of the signature reveals successful the unrecorded demo for Warframe was a caller benignant of Warframe known arsenic Brysko (voiced by Matt Mercer of Critical Role fame), a peculiar Chimera Warframe that is simply a sentient being created wrong the Tau system. Along with a playable Lotus section, we besides got to spot Brysko successful action, who plays arsenic a gunslinger Warframe successful combat sequences that play retired likewise to a fast-paced quality enactment game. Warframe has focused heavy connected character-first storytelling successful caller years, and 1 of the cardinal focuses of the Tau update is Brysko's communicative and however the Chimera Warframe volition play into the game's future.

Along with a caller uncover for Tau, Warframe volition besides motorboat respective updates successful the lead-up to Tau's motorboat aboriginal this year, including a customizable Orokin Vessel that players volition acquire. Firstly, the adjacent large update to Warframe is the Iceblade of Narin, a communicative quest featuring a caller determination and a caller playable Warframe to acquire. Moreover, caller deluxe versions of Qorvex and Banshee, a gameplay rework, and caller Nightwave missions with the Amir's Shockwave update are besides connected the way.

Also revealed astatine TennoCon was Warframe ‘s first-ever paper mini-game, Portau, which is based connected the mechanics of poker. The Sentient paper crippled iterates connected the rules of poker with its ain suite of Blooms, Cores, Moons, and Suns.

Soulframe - New fables, a caller acheronian pact, and mounts are connected the way

Digital Extremes' Soulframe and its increasing high-fantasy beingness are inactive successful its alpha stage, and the developers person been gradually defining a much engaging and soulful companion to Warframe. At TennoCon, we got to spot the latest updates coming to Soulframe, which focuses connected the Envoys encountering their darkest challenges yet with the accomplishment of a caller threat, and a caller accidental to prosecute with the increasing corruption to follow the archetypal acheronian powers known arsenic vespers.

Firstly, 1 of the aboriginal reveals is that much players volition beryllium capable to get entree to Soulframe Preludes – the existent aboriginal entree for the action-RPG. Players who motion up for entree to Soulframe Preludes connected the authoritative tract earlier July 12 11:59 ET volition gain entree to the game. While invites person steadily gone out, this marks the astir important accidental to get entree to Soulframe.

One of the important reveals was the caller communicative and fable ngo called Warsongs – which is acceptable for merchandise this Fall. The questline we saw added much details to the subordinate character's root communicative and however their parent came into struggle with Tempest Bayor, who is fixed much inheritance and thrust down his motivations, mounting the events of the crippled into motion. Furthermore, actors Ben Starr (Final Fantasy XVI, Expedition 33) and Jennifer English (Baldur's Gate 3, Expedition 33) person joined the Soulframe formed arsenic recurring antagonist Tempest Bayor – the red-armed anti-Envory – and supporting subordinate state Empress of Eldveil, respectively, to further grow connected Soulframe's increasing narrative.

"We astir apt announced the crippled overmuch sooner than we should have, but really, what has travel retired of it is that we're gathering this crippled alongside the community," said elder assemblage manager for Soulframe successful a chat with IGN. "When we yet got players successful to trial the crippled and play early, it was a large accidental to truly spot them instrumentality successful the satellite and get into the knitty-gritty of the satellite we're building. In the past year, especially, we person taken a batch of large swings with the game, and we're conscionable perpetually gathering up towards our adjacent steps. Some truly large **** is coming soon."

One of the astir breathtaking moments of the TennoCon demo was the conflict betwixt Tempest Bayor and the Envoy's mother, who are some concisely playable during the Warsongs demo. The demo culminates successful an brushwood wherever the Envoy gets a little acquisition with the Vadagar pact – which introduces the quality to clasp the powers of the acheronian side.

In the caller questline, we get to spot the subordinate Envoy travel into interaction with a corruption that grants them a caller Vadagar pact and weapon, which showcase Soulframe's archetypal attempts astatine offering a acheronian broadside of sorts to follow. According to the devs, this questline is Soulframe's darkest storyline truthful far, and it volition connection players – if they are truthful inclined – the accidental to physique up their corruption powers. The caller limb shown disconnected during the demo focused connected the snake sword known arsenic the Coiled Dawn, which uses ample sweeping strikes to chopped down aggregate enemies.

In summation to the expanded fable, Soulframe volition besides get a circular of caller quality-of-life updates to the crippled this year. In the lead-up to the large caller updates coming this year, Soulframe players volition besides beryllium capable to instrumentality portion successful a caller combat brushwood against the Mendicant Reinbreaker, a shadowy acheronian knight that tin perchance beryllium a caller state upon defeat. One of the astir requested features from the assemblage was subordinate mounts, and we got to spot players riding atop ample wolves during the TennoCon demo. Another caller diagnostic coming to Soulframe is sportfishing – referred to arsenic 'Vegan Fishing' – which lets players unbend and seizure food crossed the Alca to summation intel astir the wildlife.

"The assemblage enactment we person is truthful critical, and it's besides – successful my presumption – a gift," said Asselin."There are truthful galore games and truthful galore things players tin bash with their clip successful this attraction economy. So wherefore would idiosyncratic play Soulframe aft enactment versus different crippled oregon the latest happening connected Netflix? So it's up to america to grant that acquisition and bash it right. That's wherefore we person dev-streams and adjacent person Envoy hours wherever the squad jumps into the crippled to spot however the crippled feels with the community. We're inactive precise aboriginal successful improvement compared to Warframe, truthful I deliberation it's allowed america to person immoderate clip with everyone and to assistance physique this crippled up."

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