Elden Ring DLC to launch as early as February – according to leak
FromSoftware has been keeping painfully quiet about when Shadow of the Erdtree will launch, but players have finally been given a small glimpse of hope.
We’ve not heard a peep out of Dark Souls and Bloodborne developer FromSoftware ever since the DLC for its hard-as-nails 2022 hit, Elden Ring, was announced at the beginning of this year. Called Shadow of the Erdtree, very little other information was revealed about it other than it was in development, and that players would undergo “new adventures in the Lands Between”. Well, thanks to a recent leak, we now have a better idea of when it might drop.
The leak comes courtesy of a third-party Xbox controller, spotted by players and documented in a Reddit post, which was briefly posted on the retail website DataBlitz. The product listing for the controller has since been taken down, but not before images could be shared on Twitter detailing the potential Elden Ring DLC release window.
The “ESWAP X II Pro Elden Ring Limited Edition” Xbox controller by Thrustmaster features a gold and black design reminiscent of a lot of Elden Ring’s marketing, is said to arrive sometime in February 2024, and will have the ability to “sync with the new Shadow of the Erdtree expansion release”. This very much confirms that the controller is a tie-in with FromSoftware’s upcoming continuation of the Elden Ring universe, as if the product’s name wasn’t a dead giveaway.
Interestingly, the product listing also featured designs and specs for two additional controllers geared around Shardbearers Malenia and Ranni, intended to coincide with “year two of collaboration (2025)”. The release of these will supposedly “be synchronised with 2025 Elden Ring major keybeat or new game expansion”, suggesting that Shadow of the Erdtree won’t be the last piece of Elden Ring DLC we’ll see.
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Obviously, neither FromSoftware or publisher Bandai Namco is yet to comment on the controllers’ leak, nor anything else regarding the Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree. And yet, while a lot could change between now and February, listings like these are very rarely wrong. Elden Ring originally launched on February 25, 2022, too, indicating that the expansion may arrive just in time for the game’s two-year anniversary.
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Although I don’t personally have much invested in Elden Ring, having not played it, I can empathise with players growing ever more impatient regarding the DLC’s release date. FromSoftware fans are some of the most passionate on the internet, after all, meaning the longer the silence goes on, the more excitement they get whenever something like this latest third-party controller leak pops up.
If indeed the Elden Ring DLC does end up being dated for this upcoming February, it makes it a little stranger that FromSoftware didn’t feel the need to tease anything at The Game Awards earlier this month. For my money, this would have been the perfect way to stoke up some excitement before Shadow of the Erdtree’s release, but alas… it’s hardly as if FromSoftware needs the help of Geoff Keighly’s annual hype machine to accomplish that.
Either way, it being almost two years since Elden Ring released, we must be getting very close to when the Elden Ring DLC releases. And if not that, hearing another crumb of information about it outside of the name and the fact that it will take players to new areas within the Lands Between. Luckily, if the leaked February release month does end up being true, there’s not too much longer to wait.
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