Warframe's Next Expansion Is the Epic Payoff to 13 Years of Storytelling

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Over the past few years, Warframe players have spent much of their time in-game exploring a broken timestream, jumping from one era to the next in their fight against an eldritch space god.

But at its TennoCon 2026 event, developer Digital Extremes revealed a bold new direction for the game: Instead of exploring time, players will soon enter an entirely new part of outer space. The Tau solar system teased in The Old Peace update will soon be accessible during regular gameplay, with multiple new celestial bodies for players to explore.

Live-service games that thrive for years get the rare chance to morph and evolve into something new. When Warframe launched in 2013, it was a simple third-person looter-shooter about deadly robotic ninjas. Now it features raid bosses, an endless roguelike mode, a semi-open-world fishing simulator and even some visual novel elements.

In an industry that seems increasingly...

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