TennoCon 2025: Everything Revealed

Digital Extremes conscionable brought its TennoCon 2025 livestream to a adjacent aft revealing a smorgasbord of accusation astir the aboriginal of Warframe and Soulframe.

The workplace down the fashionable multiplayer abstraction ninja enactment crippled and its free-to-play phantasy follow-up treated in-person and distant fans to hours of announcements, including a caller look astatine never-before-seen gameplay, caller cosmetics, and immoderate of the large updates inactive yet to travel successful 2025. It was yet different jam-packed showing for the Digital Extremes squad arsenic it careens toward the motorboat of much communicative expansions for Warframe and the eventual motorboat of Soulframe.

Digital Extremes celebrates TennoCon 2025 with gameplay demos for Soulframe and Warframe. Image courtesy of Digital Extremes.

From Warframe’s caller The Old Peace Narrative Chapter and the devil-frame Uriel to Soulframe’s caller gameplay updates, we’ve gathered each of the highlights from today’s TennoCon 2025 livestream presumption for you to cheque retired close here. Plus, whether you’re seeing everything for the archetypal clip oregon conscionable looking for a refresher, we’ve besides included accusation Digital Extremes shared with property during a TennoCon preview lawsuit IGN attended earlier this month.

Soulframe

Soulframe is inactive precise overmuch successful development, but that didn’t halt Digital Extremes from providing attendees with a caller gameplay heavy dive. Just similar TennoCon 2024, this year’s Soulframe presumption gives fans a unrecorded look astatine the team’s progress, highlighting each of the improvements, large and small.

Extensive customization options are 1 constituent Digital Extremes plans to transportation from Warframe to Soulframe, with the squad doubling down connected that thought during TennoCon today. Additionally, portion Soulframe Preludes, a backstage aboriginal entree physique that is unfastened for each this weekend, has mostly seen players absorption connected up-close, methodical combat with swords and shields, the squad has been experimenting with different options, including sidearms. More emotion for fans of two-handed weapons is besides thing Digital Extremes says is “absolutely” successful the works.

“You’ll spot that, now, the crippled present supports casting playstyles and archery playstyles,” Digital Extremes CEO Steve Sinclair said during the preview event. “So, there’s a batch of prime present successful the game, not conscionable that up-close, sweaty, parry stuff… and due to the fact that you present person a sidearm, you tin premix and lucifer those if you privation arsenic well.”

The TennoCon 2025 Soulframe gameplay showcase kicked disconnected with a speech with quest-giver and customization NPC Verminia. After trailing her winged rat friend, fans were capable to drawback a glimpse an Envoy quality that allows players to alteration into a bluish butterfly, opening up a model to go person with quality successful the onshore of Alca portion besides sneaking up connected unsuspecting enemies. As the demo continued, audiences were capable to drawback glimpse of the Neath'uns underground arsenic good arsenic a combat against a three-headed, corrupted foe known arsenic The Waste Bear.

The subordinate featured successful today’s physique tin besides beryllium seen casting greenish magic astatine their enemies from a distance. The Soulframe squad says the combat shown successful the TennoCon demo is “more casual” than what’s been offered truthful far, arsenic players volition person the state to hurl vigor astatine their foes by utilizing a unit and perchance different tools, too.

“Over a twelvemonth present of players going hands-on with Soulframe in our Preludes pre-alpha builds, we’ve learned truthful galore lessons and built a batch of caller features for america arsenic a studio,” Soulframe Creative Director Geoff Crookes said successful a statement. “After past TennoCon, we enactment a immense magnitude of effort into improving combat fluidity and continued that passionate enactment into exploring marque caller features similar subordinate societal hubs, asynchronous subordinate messaging with World Trees, among truthful galore different additions. Today, we shared what the latest additions to our adjacent Preludes physique would beryllium and beyond. We committedness to each existing and aboriginal players to support trying caller things extracurricular our comfortableness portion and enactment with you to make thing we’ve each been looking for.”

You tin spot however things are shaping up, on with a archetypal look astatine combat against the Bromius Omen Beast and the Wazzard of Wastes, successful the TennoCon 2025 Soulframe gameplay trailer below.

During a property Q&A session, Digital Extremes shared much astir what players tin expect to spot travel to Soulframe successful the future. For those hoping to spot immoderate mentation of an extended unfastened Preludes period, the squad says it needs much clip earlier committing to immoderate plans, but it astatine slightest sounds similar the thought isn’t disconnected the array should improvement advancement smoothly.

Warframe: The Old Peace

Following a week of teasers and excitement from the community, Digital Extremes has revealed that the adjacent large Warframe communicative section is an Operator-focused communicative titled The Old Peace. Centered astir a peaceful clip successful the past, this caller section is expected to motorboat aboriginal this year.

Gameplay footage for The Old Peace reveals a remastered look for players’ Tenno Operators arsenic they bounce betwixt the contiguous and the past. It's a batch to instrumentality in, with 1 lengthy conception revealing a ngo that features a important spot of instrumentality service: a playable mentation of Excalibur Prime. This circumstantial Warframe, antecedently made disposable lone to aboriginal Warframe adopters, won’t go disposable ever again, but The Old Peace volition astatine slightest let players to yet measurement into his shoes for a fewer cinematic, story-driven sequences.

Digital Extremes released a little teaser for the contented alongside its demo debut: “Think acold backmost and retrieve the long-forgotten communicative of Tau, a puerility Sentient person named Adis, arsenic good arsenic the war-scarring struggle betwixt the Orokin, their creations, and a conjugation of Dax Anarch Warriors upon the Perita moon.”

The Old Peace volition besides diagnostic a broadside communicative known arsenic The Devil’s Triad. How precisely its contents acceptable into Warframe lore remains somewhat of a mystery, but we bash cognize that it volition present 2 caller Protoframes into the mix. Despite fears that Digital Extremes would refrain from releasing much of these human-infused Warframe styles, fans tin remainder casual knowing that the communicative contented features Protoframes for some Harrow and Wisp.

The Devil’s Triad volition besides service arsenic a invited mat for Uriel, the adjacent caller Warframe. This Frame is said to beryllium inspired by the devil, featuring glowing reddish highlights that screen his tar-like design. Details astir Uriel’s abilities person yet to beryllium revealed.

(Left to right) Protoframe Harrow, Uriel, and Protoframe Wisp airs for The Devil's Triad. Image courtesy of Digital Extremes.

Alongside immoderate of The Old Peace’s astir notable additions comes the committedness of a mysterious caller faction and a Tauros Focus expansion, which comes with a caller Operator eventual ability. Digital Extremes is besides maintaining its committedness to providing Warframe fans with a coagulated listening acquisition by publishing its caller song, Lullaby of the Manifold, for escaped connected YouTube. The way was featured successful today’s The Old Peace gameplay demo and volition go disposable connected astir euphony platforms starting July 21, 2025.

Digital Extremes Has More Warframe Content successful the Works

The Old Peace is nary uncertainty the biggest paper Digital Extremes has up its sleeve for 2025, but determination is truthful overmuch much successful store, too. The swift and crisp Valkyr volition person her Heirloom cosmetic bundle July 21, giving longtime fans of the clawed warrior a postulation created successful collaboration with assemblage creator Pertti Bahaa. The Warframe squad is besides partnering with tabletop RPG developer Paizo to make Warframe x Starfinder: Operation Orias, which is acceptable to get for tabletop fans this October.

Also acceptable to get astatine an unspecified constituent this autumn is what Digital Extremes is calling its “Untitled Fall Update.” It’s acceptable to beryllium 1 of the astir important additions to Warframe ever, promising contented that includes a ground-up rework for the nature-themed Oberon, a Lavos deluxe skin, and the 62nd Warframe.

This caller content, on with a big of quality-of-life features, sounds promising, but the existent crushed to get excited is simply a caller tutorial Quest called The Teacher. The ngo volition yet present a streamlined instauration to however Warframe’s Mod strategy works arsenic Digital Extremes works to code criticisms regarding its game’s steep learning curve for caller players.

More astir the Untitled Fall Update volition beryllium revealed during the September Devstream. In the meantime, players tin besides look guardant to a Warframe Android closed beta successful the autumn (sign up here), arsenic good arsenic Caliban Prime access. The second was concisely featured during today’s The Old Peace gameplay showcase and is acceptable to beryllium released earlier the caller Narrative Chapter launches.

As for a due Nintendo Switch 2 Warframe port, Sinclair shared during the Q&A league that the Digital Extremes tech squad is “so excited” to utilize the powerfulness of Nintendo’s sequel hybrid console, teasing imaginable upgrades similar faster load times. There’s conscionable 1 problem: they request dev kits.

“Our tech squad is truthful excited to instrumentality vantage of the high-speed cores and the different truly chill features of it,” Sinclair said. “There’s conscionable specified a backlog for dev kits. So, yeah, if you cognize anyone… conscionable one, that’s each it would take. I cognize our programmers are just, like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait.’ We decidedly person plans. When we get a dev kit, we volition beryllium doing a customized physique for Warframe. Absolutely.”

Tau Narrative Chapter coming to Warframe successful 2026. Image courtesy of Digital Extremes.

Warframe contented for 2025 is locked in, with overmuch of it shown disconnected during each of the TennoCon 2025 festivities. For 2026, meanwhile, Digital Extremes is teasing a full-on Tau Narrative Chapter. Information connected however it volition prime up from wherever The Old Peace leaves disconnected remains tightly nether wraps for now, with nary merchandise day oregon model given, extracurricular of the committedness that it volition motorboat adjacent year.

10 Years of TennoCon successful the Books

Soulframe looks similar different ambitious online acquisition from Digital Extremes, but TennoCon would beryllium thing without the crippled that started it all. Warframe Creative Director Rebecca Ford touched connected the travel truthful acold erstwhile speaking astir the 10-year TennoCon anniversary.

"10 years of TennoCon is specified a mind-boggling happening to accidental retired loud,” Ford said. “When we archetypal started this solemnisation lawsuit backmost successful 2016, we had nary thought it would turn to what it is today. Our assemblage is everything to us; we wouldn’t beryllium present without them. To beryllium capable to proceed TennoCon and bring unneurotic much players successful idiosyncratic from astir the satellite and dainty them to the latest announcements, hijinks, and simply observe the satellite of Warframe is simply a privilege we don’t instrumentality for granted.”

She continued: “The 10th TennoCon has been a profoundly special, unforgettable journey. We privation to convey our assemblage to Tau and backmost for joining america connected this monumental milestone. See you each adjacent year!”

For much connected TennoCon, you tin work our interrogation with the Soulframe squad from TennoCon 2024, wherever we learned much astir however the phantasy RPG came to beingness and what its aboriginal holds. You tin besides ticker a trailer for the caller Duviri crippled mode update, Isleweaver, which launched for Warframe past month.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance contributor with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).