Are you able to consider it is already been over 4 hundred years since Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree growth was introduced? And whereas this 12 months’s Recreation Awards did not make the interminable wait any simpler with a primary trailer or some small morsel of stories for followers, we would lastly have one thing resembling a possible launch window – courtesy of a retailer leak, by means of an official Bandai Namco accomplice, pointing to a February 2024 launch for the DLC.
As noticed over on Reddit, particulars of a brand new Elden Ring collaboration between writer Bandai Namco and peripheral producer Thrustmaster – one which’ll apparently see the latter launch a sequence of restricted version controllers themed across the sport – had been in the present day shared, briefly and presumably mistakenly, by on-line retailer Datablitz.
Notably, the accompanying promotional materials revealed the primary batch of controllers would arrive in February subsequent 12 months to “sync with the brand new Shadow of the Erdtree growth launch”. It is a launch window that appears extremely unlikely at first look, not least as a result of it is barely two months from now with no peep of selling from Bandai Namco – however however, who’s to say that if I want for one thing laborious sufficient I can not make it occur? Plus, a shock second anniversary launch would be in line with the amusingly understated method the Shadow of the Erdtree growth was introduced within the first place.
Elden Ring Lore: Miquella Defined
Nonetheless issues pan out, the February launch window for Shadow of the Erdtree is not the one fascinating revelation in in the present day’s leak. Thrustmaster’s promotional materials – which is sort of definitely legit, if not vital correct, given somebody has spend the day getting mirrors of the doc scrubbed from the web – additionally highlights two further controllers themed round Malenia and Ranni. These, in response to an accompanying footnote, are meant to be launched with a “2025 Elden Ring main key beat or new sport growth”. As giddying because the considered a second Elden Ring growth could be, the uncertainty inherent in that “or” suggests this might – if it is something in any respect – be one thing akin to a whole version.
So there you go; there’s a actuality – whether or not it is the one we at present inhabit or not stays to be seen – through which Shadow of the Erdtree will probably be with us in lower than ten weeks. Clearly, nothing is official till FromSoftware or Bandai Namco make it so however what a beautiful two-year birthday current that may be. And as for what the almost-certainly Miquella-themed growth may embrace, properly there’s been loads of hypothesis about that already.