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Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree confirmed

New adventures in the Lands Between are coming

Marco Wutz

Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree confirmed
Elden Ring expansion Shadow of the Erdtree confirmed /

FromSoftware and Bandai Namco have confirmed that an expansion for Elden Ring is currently being developed. It’s called Shadow of the Erdtree, does not have an official release date at this moment, and aside from an official artwork accompanying the announcement we don’t have an indication of what exactly the additional content will be about.

The artwork for Shadow of the Erdtree shows the usually bright and white Erdtree charred and crumbling, streams of lava flowing out of it like blood. The landscape is one of lush hills, which have ruins strewn all over them. We see our loyal mount and a familiar maiden sitting on it as they gaze upon the dying tree. Ghostly shades of graves surround not only them, but everything to the horizon – something truly ghastly must have happened.

Elden Ring expansion artwork.
The artwork for Shadow of the Erdtree / FromSoftware

Elden Ring, which was released in 2022 to critical acclaim, sold over 20 million copies so far, becoming FromSoftware’s greatest hit. The open-world RPG’s story and lore – told not in the traditional manner through cutscenes and such, but purely through player interactions with its world – is the common brainchild of Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin. This way of storytelling has garnered attention from other industry members such as Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann.

It takes traditional elements and aesthetics from previous FromSoftware games such as Dark Souls, which is evident in the great design of the Elden Ring bosses. The story follows several paths with different endings, such as the complicated Lord of Frenzied Flame ending.

Elden Ring has so far been supported with several updates, which completed a few unfinished quest lines and added enhanced PvP functionalities.

Shadow of the Erdtree, as an expansion, will be a lot more substantial in terms of content, though of course it’s hard to say right now what exactly this release will have in store – that goes for content and story.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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