Warframe kickstarts its 10-year anniversary celebration quite early with weeks of freebies, updates, and the return of in-person Tennocon!
Warframe Kicks Off Its 10-Year Anniversary Celebration
It’s amazing to think that Digital Extremes' one and only game (for now) has been steadily gaining traction over the past 10 years. It’s even weirder to think that that year had some other heavy hitters that are still popular until now, like Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us (original).
However, we’re here to talk about space Ninjas, and how one company braved it all to get where they are now.
Starting the Festivities
Digital Extremes kicked off the celebration with a live stream on August 20, 2025. The presentation lasted for just over an hour and contained tons of nostalgia, and things to look forward to (including Soulframe).
One of the biggest confirmations is that Tennocon, the Digital Extremes' exclusive convention, will be making a return to the in-person format. The event will take place on August 26th, in London, Ontario, Canada. There is even a helpful page on Warframe’s main site that has a nice countdown so you can expect when the gates open (which is in 156 days as of writing). Tickets go on sale starting April 5th. Those who cannot get to Canada can still partake by purchasing some digital packs.
Next up is the announcement that Warframe’s celebrations have just begun. Starting tomorrow, March 24th, players will get treated to weekly “Alerts” which are basically in-game rewards for their space ninjas. Goodies include various Noggles to display on your ship, various Dex skins from the community, actual weapons, and other cosmetics. Additionally, every weekend will have various boosts enabled, such as double currency drops, resource drops, or affinity (basically EXP).
Rewards for Weeks 1 through 10 have already been outlined. The rest will have to be a surprise for now.
10 Years of Warframe
The main Warframe anniversary site also has a great interactive timeline that details each major event in the game’s history. While the game’s official launch wasn’t until March 25th, 2021, it actually started out sometime in 2012. This is when Warframe entered Early Access exclusively on PC. There, players had access to only one character, Excalibur, and faced off against the tyrannical Grineer enemy race.
Since then Digital Extremes became known as a developer/publisher that reaches out to its community. They desired openness and transparency in their development process, and this led to the inception of their regular Devstreams. Other than that, they participated in other well-known gaming conventions such as Gamescom in order to connect with their fans.
Growing further into the community aspect of relationship building was set in 2014 and 2015. There, they introduced the “Tennogen” system into Warframe. This was a way that artistic fans could submit their designs for cosmetics for a chance to have them actually implemented in-game. These were all paid cosmetics, but the creators got cut for every purchase. Additionally, things like the fan-favorite and community-created character Clem made his way into the game.
This, however, was nothing for what 2016 had in store for the fanbase. This was the first-ever Tennocon, the exclusively Digital Extremes convention that focused purely on Warframe. The initial headcount for the event was just over 1,100 - but that was doubled in 2017’s Tennocon. And it all went uphill from there.
Soulful Soulframe
A surprise teaser in the Anniversary Kickoff Devstream was a short snippet of actualSoulframegameplay. The footage showed off was quite short, and still rough around the edges but that is totally acceptable as it is an extremely early dev build.
It featured a lone character in white. They wielded a trusty longsword throughout the duration of the gameplay tease, and they used it to stylishly execute some armored soldiers. Visually, the game looks like it is quite the step up from Warframe, with extremely good and soft lighting effects.
Animation-wise, it looks like Soulframe is still borrowing some from Warframe. But Soulframe is definitely a lot slower. You don’t have the crazy bullet jumps, double jumps, air dashes, and whatnot on display here. It’s also much faster than a Soulslike so this is probably not intending to compete with the likes of Elden Ring.
What it does well is create a nice, kinetic, and more nuanced third-person action game. And we can also unleash our inner Disney Princess and have our pet bird magically attack our foes and stun them instead of singing a jolly song with us. More info (and hopefully a hands-on experience) will come in 2023’s Tennocon.
Requiem for a Dream
Warframe is still going strong, 10 years after its official launch. The next expansion,The Durivi Paradox, wasdelayed to April 2023so fans have something to look forward to quite soon.
This is an entirely newroguelitemode that features a Pedro Pascal lookalike that plays a drifter stuck within a time loop.
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