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Elden Ring: Shadow of The Erdtree gets late June release date

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By Justin Diaz
February 22, 2024
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The launch date for the long-awaited and highly anticipated Elden Ring expansion has finally been revealed. Early morning on February 21, FromSoftware dropped the first official trailer for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. The trailer was only a brief few minutes, but that was more than enough to get players hyped up for their return to the lands between. What adventures might await? That’s a question that can’t quite be answered yet. Since nothing has really been shared about the game beyond what you can see in the trailer.

But the good news is that the end of the trailer revealed when the expansion is coming. So players now have a firm idea of when they need to clear out their schedules. The expansion for Elden Ring will be launching in late June.

Long-awaited Elden Ring expansion ‘Shadow of the Erdtree’ will launch on June 21

If you missed the trailer, you can watch it below. If all you want is to know when you can play it, it will arrive on June 21 of this year. So you only have to wait a few more months before you can dive in. The game will launch for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms on that date so you can expect to play it wherever you played the base game.

The trailer doesn’t give any information about the locale when it comes to actual names or much of the story. However, the three-minute trailer does show off gameplay and a host of the expansion’s new bosses. One of the more notable updates coming includes the ability for players to engage in hand-to-hand combat as opposed to using weapons. Which might suggest an entirely new set of classes for players. Or at the very least new builds for players to try out.

The expansion is already up for pre-order and retails for $39.99. A good value considering the scope and size of the content that’s expected from it.

Shadow of the Erdtree will be FromSoftware’s largest expansion ever

People have been using FromSoftware games as an example of the value you get when you buy into one for years. And with good reason. The games are complete with no microtransactions, and because of the challenge and the amount of stuff to do, they can take lots of your time to finish. Depending on your skills of course.

Elden Ring’s expansion isn’t breaking away from this formula. In an interview with Eurogamer, Hidetaka Miyazaki, the game’s director, has said that it will be the biggest expansion FromSoftware has ever worked on. Miyazaki also talks a little about the story of the DLC. There are no specifics, but he tells Eurogamer that the mythos for the DLC is based on one part of the original mythos that George R.R. Martin wrote for FromSoftware for the base game. So there’s no new mythos in terms of the story.

“It’s simply another part of the original story that we thought fit to tell as a new expansion,” Miyazaki says. In addition to the interview with Eurogamer, IGN states that Miyazaki spoke with them at IGN FanFest about the expansion’s map size. It’ll be “comparable, if not larger than Limgrave” Miyazaki says. Limgrave is of course the area of the entire map of Elden Ring. And it’s absolutely massive. It sounds like players are in for a whole lot more adventure come June 21.

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