Behind the scenes in the Warframe studios where new fantasy game is in development

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 14, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

London-based video crippled developer Digital Extremes has built a assemblage of millions of players with its sci-fi shooter crippled Warframe, and they volition soon invited gamers to participate the new satellite of Soulframe.

Now 3 years into development, Soulframe is simply a bold departure from the fast-paced aboriginal galaxy of Warframe. With a mystic and enchanted satellite rooted successful quality and spirits, players instrumentality connected the relation of Envoy, a spiritual adventurer bonded with ancestral forces.

While the past Tenno warriors successful Warframe conflict with fast gunplay, Envoys prosecute successful much tactical combat, utilizing swords, bows and spellcasting, taking the subordinate connected a much contemplative journey.

"Soul Frame is truly our effect to the benignant of industrialization of the satellite and however we privation to benignant of get backmost to nature," said Sheldon Carter, the president of Digital Extremes. "We wanted to spell backmost to themes of restoration, of benignant of connecting more. At the aforesaid time, we privation to person an action-adventure phantasy game."

Carter said Soulframe is an accidental for the crippled developer to research the satellite of phantasy storytelling. 

"You're doing fables, you're rescuing animals, you're fending disconnected the corruption successful nature."

The halfway squad down Soulframe is the aforesaid squad that built Warframe, which was released successful 2013.

"There is simply a definite magic that comes from having a squad that has worked unneurotic for truthful long," said Carter. "But extracurricular the magic is truly cautious readying and truly cautiously looking astatine what is the communicative that we privation to tell? What's the satellite that volition facilitate that? And I deliberation we bash a truly bully occupation of starting with a germ of a communicative and past gathering the crippled astir that."

The enchanting graphics of Soulframe are complimented by immersive dependable scapes and effects, which are recorded successful location and developed alongside the story.

"It takes a long clip and a squad of galore radical implicit over galore years," said George Spanos, the audio manager astatine Digital Extremes. "You get into that rhythm wherever you enactment connected it and past you enactment it successful the crippled motor and past you spot it travel to life. You're making this full satellite that players tin experience, which is precise rewarding and exciting."

LISTEN | London Morning big Andrew Brown gets a sneak peek astatine the improvement of Soulframe:

Like Warframe, Soulframe volition be free-to-play, with add-ons that tin beryllium purchased wrong the game.

A prelude mentation has been made disposable to immoderate players to try, but the afloat merchandise day for Soulframe has not been set. The institution is hosting their yearly TennoCon lawsuit astatine Canada Life Place successful July, wherever fans and players volition get a accidental to research Soulframe.