Summary
- Yesterday, Bandai Namco revealed Elden Ring Nightreign, a roguelike spin-off with a co-op focus.
- Nightreign is set to be released in 2025, but select players can get early access through a Network Test in February.
- Registration for the test opens on January 10, so if you’re interested in giving it a go it’s worth signing up.
Bandai Namco has revealed that Network Tests for Elden Ring Nightreign will begin for select players at some point in February, with registration opening on January 10.
Before The Game Awards 2024 kicked off last night, reliable insiders told us that there were going to be a few “holy s**t” moments. As it turns out, there were so many of them that it was hard to tell which were meant to be the big surprises. The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Okami 2, Onimusha… the list is nearly endless.
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Perhaps the biggest and most popular surprise of all, though, was the reveal of Elden Ring Nightreign, a three-player roguelike spin-off that lets players team up and take down some of the series’ biggest bads together. Considering FromSoft recently said it wasn’t working on anything related to Elden Ring right now, it came as a big shock, especially with a 2025 release date.
Lucky Players Can Play Elden Ring Nightreign In Two Months
It’s already surprising enough that a brand-new take on Elden Ring is going to be ready to go at some point over the next 12 months, but it turns out that it’s apparently in a near-playable state. Earlier today, Bandai Namco revealed that players will soon be able to register to gain access to Network Tests for Nightreign, which will basically act as a closed beta.
According to Bandai Namco UK’s Twitter account and the official website for Elden Ring Nightreign, registrations for the game’s network test will open on January 10, just over a few weeks from now. The tests will then begin and let in a select number of lucky players to get early access to the game at some point in February.
The network test is a preliminary verification test in which the selected testers play a portion of the game prior to the full game launch. Various technical verifications of online systems will be examined by conducting large-scale network load tests.
As of right now, we don’t really know anything about what the network test is going to involve, but it is a sign of how far along the game is already. Anyone interested can sign up over on the game’s official website on January 10, and hopefully find themselves playing Nightreign in February.
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