Elden Ring Nightreign (PS5) News Articles
Monday10th Nov 2025
News FromSoftware Still Has Major Elden Ring Nightreign DLC to Release, Out by April 2026
Game also beat sales expectations
Elden Ring Nightreign, the co-op-focused spin-off to FromSoftware's biggest game to date, appears to have been an all-around success for the developer and its parent company, Kadokawa Corporation. Having recorded more than five million sales back in July, the firm has revealed the game "performed well beyond...
Friday29th Aug 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Will Get Even Tougher in New Hard Mode
Out on PS5, PS4 in September
On top of its base difficulty and the Everdark Sovereign fights, Elden Ring Nightreign will become an even tougher game next month with the introduction of a new hard mode. Available from 11th September 2025 in a free update, Deep of Night will be "a high-difficulty challenge mode designed for seasoned players who have...
Wednesday30th Jul 2025
News FromSoftware Delays Its Elden Ring Nightreign Updates Due to Tsunami Alerts
Two updates pushed back one day
FromSoftware has delayed two Elden Ring Nightreign updates that were set to go live imminently because of the now ongoing tsunami warnings affecting Hawaii, Japan, and some parts of the USA's west coast. Overnight, an earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale struck the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia,...
Friday25th Jul 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Adds Duos Mode in Major Free Update Next Week on PS5, PS4
Just the two of us
Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have announced a new way to play Elden Ring Nightreign when its next big update hits next week. As shown off in this new trailer, the multiplayer title will soon include Duo Expeditions, allowing you to play as a twosome rather than a trio: A free game update will take Nightreign to version 1.02...
Thursday24th Jul 2025
News Immense Elden Ring Success Makes Its DLC, Nightreign Top Sellers Too
DLC at 10 million, Nightreign at 5 million
With more than 30 million sales to its name, Elden Ring helped FromSoftware reach a new level of fame in the games industry, having successfully turned its wide but ultimately linear Dark Souls formula into an open world. That level of success and extremely high quality has now impacted the developer's...
Wednesday4th Jun 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Has No PS5 Pro Improvements At All
It's Tarnished
In what could be considered a worrying precedent, Elden Ring Nightreign does absolutely nothing with the PS5 Pro. While games are required to run on Sony’s supercharged hardware, developers aren’t obligated to take advantage of the additional horsepower on offer. However, it’s rare for major titles to skip support for the...
Tuesday3rd Jun 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign's Enormous Success Continues, Now Over 3.5 Million Sales
Almost doubles launch in a few days
All of FromSoftware’s Souls titles have featured online multiplayer in some form, but it’s probably fair to say they’ve never been the focus of any of the games to the same extent as Elden Ring Nightreign. Still, developing this co-op focused spin-off has not hampered the series’ success, as the new game...
Monday2nd Jun 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Single Player Focused PS5, PS4 Patch Out Now
Get all the patch 1.01.1 notes here
Elden Ring Nightreign is designed for three-player sessions but it still offers the option to play it on your own, despite an even more brutal difficulty curve. To combat this, FromSoftware will deploy patch 1.02 next week to make solo play a bit more of a viable option. Having downloaded the PS5, PS4 patch,...
Friday2nd May 2025
News FromSoftware Wants to Explain Elden Ring Nightreign to You Again
10-minute overview trailer released
Potentially not satisfied its fanbase fully understands what Elden Ring Nightreign is about, FromSoftware has released a lengthy new trailer that provides a deep dive into the game as a whole. Across 10 minutes of gameplay, the developer covers how the co-op-focused experience works. Anyone who's kept up with the...
Wednesday2nd Apr 2025
News Stylish Archery the Focus of New Elden Ring Nightreign Character
FromSoftware introduces Ironeye
Elden Ring Nightreign studio FromSoftware has introduced another of its playable characters for the upcoming online spin-off to its 2022 smash hit. Ironeye is their name, and they're bringing a bow and arrow to the ever-changing Limveld along with some seriously flashy parkour moves. See them in action in the new...
Tuesday18th Feb 2025
News FromSoftware Plans to Flog Characters, Bosses as Elden Ring Nightreign DLC
Save your coins
Elden Ring Nightreign, the new online focused take on FromSoftware’s smash hit RPG, will take the franchise in a very different direction – and that also appears to the case with its DLC. Text uploaded to the release’s Steam page before being swiftly removed mentioned that “additional playable characters and bosses” will...
News Elden Ring Boss Pursues Tarnished Vendetta into Nightreign
"Someone must extinguish thy flame. Let it be Margit the Fell!"
Elden Ring Nightreign's recent network test sessions taught players many things about FromSoftware's experimental, excellent next offering. It also reminded them of a lesson that all Elden Ring players are taught early on: Margit, The Fell Omen's hatred for the Tarnished, whose very...
Wednesday12th Feb 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Is Out Sooner Than You Think, Set for PS5, PS4 This May
Right around the Limveld corner
Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have announced their multiplayer spin-off Elden Ring Nightreign will release for PS5 and PS4 on 30th May 2025. Accompanied by hands-on preview articles — including our own take — the release date means Nightreign is right around the corner, only three months away from launch. The...
Tuesday11th Feb 2025
News Shifting Swamps to Plague Elden Ring Nightreign's Procedural Map
The student learns from the master
Elden Ring Nightreign is creeping ever closer, expected to release on PS5 and PS4 in 2025. The sped-up pace of play will mean significant changes from the traditional FromSoft formula, and you'd better believe that Hidetaka Miyazaki's
Friday10th Jan 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Network Test Sign Ups Available Now
Play a "portion" of the multiplayer game
First a surprise announcement at The Game Awards last month and now soon to be playable, the sign-ups for the Elden Ring Nightreign network test will go live from tomorrow. To register and be in with a chance of taking part, you'll need to go to the official website page for the game when sign ups are...
Monday6th Jan 2025
News Elden Ring Nightreign Axes 'Behold, Dog' and Other Iconic Phrases
Put those foolish ambitions to rest
Elden Ring's upcoming multiplayer spinoff, Nightreign, will lack one of FromSoftware's Soulslike series' most iconic features, its esoteric messaging system. Apparently, this is due to the much faster pace of play, with players given little time for such diversions. Speaking to IGN Japan (shoutout to
Wednesday18th Dec 2024
News No Duos Allowed in Elden Ring: Nightreign's Take on Battle Royale
Two shalt thou not count, excepting that thou then proceed to three
Elden Ring: Nightreign is the surpise co-op spinoff we never knew we wanted, and it is quickly becoming one of our most anticipated 2025 releases. In a moderately interesting update, IGN has learned that players c
Tuesday17th Dec 2024
News Elden Ring Nightreign Will Boast Bosses Pulled from Dark Souls Series
"I may be but small, but I will die a colossus"
FromSoftware and Bandai Namco's attempt to make Elden Ring battle royale a thing, Nightreign, will feature fearsome enemies and bosses from across the Dark Souls series, arriving in the multiverse-like realm of Limveld. Eagle-eyed fans were quick to note the inclusion of some familiar foes in the...
Monday16th Dec 2024
News Elden Ring: Nightreign Network Test to Take Place in February on PS5
Registrations opens in January
We can't help but be excited to try out Nightreign, Elden Ring's fast-paced cooperative offering, arriving in 2025. Developer FromSoftware (a development studio that rarely misses) has revealed that PS5 players can sign up to take part in a network test for the standalone adventure. Registrations open on 10th January,...
Saturday14th Dec 2024
News Elden Ring: Nightreign Will Not Have Crossplay
Walled garden
Elden Ring: Nightreign has a huge focus on co-op, although you can technically play it offline and in single player if you like. Despite this, FromSoftware is not offering crossplay in the game. “Similar to the original Elden Ring, there will be cross-generational play but not cross-platform play,” director Junya Ishizaki told
Friday13th Dec 2024
News Elden Ring: Nightreign Explained, Can Be Played in Single Player and Offline
Everything you need to know
The announcement of Elden Ring: Nightreign will have caught many FromSoftware fans, especially as the studio wasn't really expected to have any news to share having put out Shadow of the Erdtree earlier this year. It did, however: a co-op game for up to three players that uses the frameworks of Elden Ring for a different...
News Elden Ring: Nightreign Announced, a Co-Op Game for PS5, PS4
Releasing in 2025
FromSoftware has announced a new, standalone Elden Ring with the subtitle Nightreign, releasing in 2025 for PS5 and PS4. Elden Ring: Nightreign is a co-op game that appears to pull in bosses from other FromSoftware experiences, with The Nameless King from Dark Souls 3 appearing in the footage. Rise Together – Join forces with...
