Warframe is Digital Extremes' long-running free-to-play action shooter that blends fast-paced combat with RPG progression across multiple platforms. The game has maintained an active community since its 2013 launch, regularly introducing new content and cosmetics.
Recent activity centered around TennoCon 2026, the studio's annual community event where major announcements were made. Digital Extremes revealed its next major update, Warframe: Tau, which transports players to a new solar system inspired by Blade Runner and film noir aesthetics, incorporating themes around addiction. The studio also announced Soulframe, a companion project in development. TennoCon coincided with the release of the Mesa Heirloom cosmetic collection and free in-game giveaways for attendees and the broader community. Coverage highlighted both the technical ambitions ahead and discussion of Warframe's distinctive design philosophy, while practical guides addressed endgame content like Steel Path mode and weapon optimization for returning and new players alike.
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All right, now it has been more than a month. I am slacking. I do not know how that even happened, other than just… not wanting to do this batch? But that doesn’t make sense to me either, because there’s nothing wrong with these frames in Warframe. One of them is even what I woul…
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Warframe creative director Rebecca Ford dishes on The Iceblade of Narin update, which will introduce a new Warframe and in-game hub on Sept. 23.
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Do you like fighting Lephantis in Warframe? Would you like to fight him over and over and over and over and over on the Plains of Eidolon after hoping that your group has a Volt or a Nova to speed up the process of walking across the entire map? If you answered those questions wi…
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While Gamescom may have been the biggest event on the gaming industry's calendar, for fans of Warframe it was the TennoVIP community event that captured their imagination. And in their TennoVIP devstream, the team at Digital Extremes unveiled exciting new details of the upcoming…
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The challenge event precedes the Warframe Taubound operation, which opens the path to the new system in October, and the Narin release date.
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Man alive, I feel rotten about this. Seriously, just awful. MOP’s Chris, whom I consider a friend and also just an excellent dude in his own right, gets to step forward and take his new day-to-day role running the site more seriously, coincides with the week when I have to say “h…
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The summer is winding down, and that means it’s time to cool off in Warframe. How so? Why, by looking forward to the Iceblade of Narin update previewed in the game’s most recent development stream broadcast live from Seoul. And there’s quite a bit going on with the update when it…
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The Warframe team has a lot to say about the game, and a lot is coming up with the game’s next developer stream next week in Korea on September 4th. But that’s going to involve translations and is very packed with content, so creative director Rebecca Ford and design director Pab…
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I hadn’t originally planned to do much talking about Amir’s Shockwave because in and of itself, it’s not a major patch. We knew that going in. It was always going to be on the smaller side from concept on down. But then the actual patch came out, and I actually have more to talk…
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Dog Days are here again, and I didn’t really care when they arrived back in Warframe. That’s not to say I dislike the time-limited water park mode or anything. I think it’s fun. I enjoy having it as a distraction. It’s just… like… this time around, I’m not a new player who had no…
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The Stop Killing Games movement has been trying its level best across multiple vectors to encourage governments around the globe to make games that have online functionality playable when their servers shut off, arguing that there should be consumer rights obligations to make som…
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There’s a big gap in today’s entries. That’s not exactly unusual, but I think it’s worth noting up front. It’s also surprising to me that we haven’t had one of these Warframe frame-picker columns for a month now! Seriously, it’s been a month! This was a big month for the game, an…
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Digital Extremes president Sheldon Carter says the studio was worried that Warframe had peaked, but these days it's doing better than ever.
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Digital Extremes' sci-fi game has finally ensnared me, and I'm now even more excited for Soulframe
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It's electrifying.
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At TennoCon, CGM spoke to Will de Renzy-Martin and Elsa Pérusin about the inner workings of the Devil's Triad, Warframe's latest Protoframes.
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So this has been a Warframe week for me, for understandable reason, and to cap things off I want to mirror something I did a while back for another title by ranking some music. However, much like that prior column, the reality is that Warframe has a lot of really great music. So…
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Digital Extremes has weathered difficult times before
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We’ll be getting some more Jade Shadows: Constellations content later this year, as Warframe’s Megan Everett reflects on the sequel.
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If you saw this year's TennoCon, then you know we have so much to be excited about. Brysko, especially. But we are also one year on from Warframe's Android launch, one that has been fairly successful. I caught up with Drew Pennycook and Corey Van Den Hoogenband a year after our f…
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Tau now brown cow
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Digital Extremes celebrates 11 years of TennoCon with Warframe's next Narrative Chapter and more.
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Hey, folks! What were you up to this weekend? I guess there was a Warframe thing? I don’t know, I wasn’t paying much attention. Have you been watching the World Cup? That’s been crazy this year. All right, obviously that’s not real; no one who reads my work would believe that I a…
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TennoCon 2026 went down on July 11 in London, Ontario, and Digital Extremes did not hold back. This was pitched as the biggest event in Warframe history, and the reveal list backs that up. We got the next major narrative chapter, a brand new detective Warframe, Warframe’s first e…
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Main quest, Warframe Brysko, and more!
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"The idea that we aren't in charge of our own goodbye is something I wake up thinking about every single day."
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Off the Lich.
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Warframe finally crashed the Fortnite party, and it did it in the biggest way possible. Announced during TennoLive at TennoCon 2026, Digital Extremes is running its first official collaboration with Fortnite in partnership with Epic Games, and it starts immediately. Excalibur, th…
And Brysko, a Sentient Warframe. The free-to-play co-op third-person looter shooter Warframe , which made its debut on the Switch 2 in March, held its 11th TennoCon Celebration this week, sharing multiple announcements. Developer Digital Extremes unveiled the next major narrative…
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Digital Extremes revealed the start of a new era for Warframe, as players will finally make the long-awaited journey to the Tau system later this year.
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This is everything Digital Extremes has revealed so far about its upcoming plans for Warframe and Soulframe at TennoCon 2026
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Warframe finally goes to Tau, with developer Digital Extremes aiming to take its universe in a bold new direction.
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Are you ready for TennoCon 2027? As the current con wrapped up with TennoLive, Digital Extremes announced the dates for the next fan event highlighting both Warframe and Soulframe. Return to London, Ontario, Canda, on July 16th and 17th, 2027, for the 12th annual TennoCon. While…
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Warframe Community Director Megan Everett sat down with us days before TennoCon 2026. She covered Tau, Brysko, the Banshee rework, and why the unannounced update bit had to die.
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After years of waiting, we're finally heading to Tau in Warframe, but this feels like more than just an update - it's a new chapter.
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TennoCon 2026 is bigger than ever, encompassing multiple venues, and TennoLive is benefitting with the expansion. This year, the big reveals and live demos were in the Canada Life Place arena along with the TennoConcert and Cosplay Contest, making this the biggest TennoLive yet!…
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Digital Extremes has wrapped up this year's Tennocon Live event with a massive reveal trailer for Warframe 's next major update: Warframe: Tau. This update brings players to a Blade Runner and Sopranos-inspired locale, and tackles themes of addiction and its dangers head-on. Read…
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Digital Extremes's venerable looty-shooty mechabody extravaganza Warframe is finally getting a full second solar system, after a warm-up flashback tour in last year's The Old Peace expansion. The developers have just screened a first look at Tau, home of the game's Sentients fact…
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Amir finally gets to play Fables & Frontiers this August as part of a larger Amir's Shockwave update for Digital Extremes' Warframe
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Critical Role’s Matt Mercer is making his way into Warframe in the Tau expansion, and we asked Digital Extremes how that finally happened
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The sound-based Warframe Banshee will be revamped with the fall 2026 update, Iceblade of Narin
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TennoCon 2026 delivered another big Warframe reveal by Digital Extremes, headlined by a brand-new Narrative Chapter that pushes the game beyond the Origin System for the first time, a new Chimera Warframe voiced by Matthew Mercer, and a full slate of cosmetic, seasonal, and endga…
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“I feel very lucky to be working on this game and to have this dev team and the community that we’ve built, because I’m no stranger to the fact that it could all end tomorrow"
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"The idea that we aren't in charge of our own goodbye is something I wake up thinking about every single day"
During TennoLive on July 11, Digital Extremes pulled the curtain back on its newest Warframe, Brysko, as part of the big Tau System showcase. Tau has been teased for a while now, with DE leaning into the idea that the System is finally in sight and that old wounds are not so easi…
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Mesa likin' dis
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When you need more of a challenge.
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Warframe's creators Digital Extremes are holding their annual TennoCon, and celebrating with a bunch of freebies for players to claim.
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I had originally planned a very different column to run today, and it would have been part of Vague Patch Notes, but then Microsoft happened. It was a more serious column, and for a moment I considered writing a column about that, but I found that it just kept devolving into arti…
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It’s been a long while since Massively OP’s MJ has bamboozled Eliot into joining her for some Warframe goodness, and what better time to do so again than just before TennoCon? The hype is real, and both are excited for the upcoming announcements. While there are no spoilers possi…