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TennoCon 2026: Everything Announced at the Warframe and Soulframe Fan Event
Digital Extremes has wrapped up TennoCon 2026, using its annual fan event to unveil substantial new content for both of its live-service action RPGs, Warframe and Soulframe. The headline reveal was Warframe's long-teased Tau expansion, described by the studio as the biggest shift in the game's 13-year history, alongside a new fable questline for the younger Soulframe featuring fresh weapons, "darkside" powers, mounts and a fishing mini-game.
The Tau expansion adds an entire second solar system to Warframe, continuing the conflict between the Tenno, Albrecht Entradi and the Man in the Wall, and introduces a gloomy cyberpunk hub city called the Forax that mixes open exploration with procedurally generated zones. Also revealed was Brysko, a new gunslinger-style "Chimera" Warframe voiced by Matt Mercer of Critical Role, plus a poker-based card mini-game named Portau. Ahead of Tau's launch later this year, Warframe will receive the Iceblade of Narin story quest, a customisable Orokin Vessel, deluxe versions of Qorvex and Banshee, a gameplay rework, and new Nightwave missions via the Amir's Shockwave update.
In short
- Warframe's Tau expansion adds a whole second solar system.
- New Chimera Warframe Brysko is voiced by Matt Mercer.
- Soulframe gets a fable questline, mounts and fishing mini-game.
Explained simply
Warframe is an online action role-playing game made by Canadian studio Digital Extremes. Players control the Tenno, fighters who use powerful suits called Warframes, and take on missions across a science-fiction setting. The game’s ongoing story includes Albrecht Entrati and the Man in the Wall, figures tied to its wider conflict.
Tau is a distant solar system in Warframe’s fiction, and its arrival expands the places and storylines players can explore. Digital Extremes also makes Soulframe, a separate action role-playing game that is still being developed and draws on fantasy themes. TennoCon is the studio’s annual event for fans, where it presents news about both games.