Warframe Developer Announces New Soulframe MMORPG
Digital Extremes, the studio behind the free-to-play, smash-hit Warframe, has spent close to a whole decade focusing almost entirely on its flagship product. In the interim, some of its other prospects, such as The Amazing Eternals, fell through without ever getting a proper release. Now, however, the studio has announced Soulframe, an all-new production that may be its next major focus.
Though it's still not fully clear whether Soulframe is set in the universe of Warframe itself, the visual inspiration behind the new project paints a clear picture. Soulframe is an environmentalist MMORPG that aims to deliver «slow and heavy» melee combat in an ever-changing world that seems to be reacting to some type of industrial development by shifting around on a daily basis.
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Digital Extremes trademarked Soulframe earlier this year, which caused a fair bit of confusion in Warframe's own gaming community. Whereas the title implies a direct relation to Warframe, it doesn't seem like this is necessarily what the developer is going for. While there's certainly room for Soulframe to be its own thing, Digital Extremes' lead director Steve Sinclair has said that it will be «the mirror universe of Warframe,» which could mean a fair number of things at this time.
Curiously, much of Soulframe's newly established development team comes from Warframe itself. Sinclair was one of the previous creative directors of the game (now having been succeeded by the former community manager, Rebecca Ford), for one, and he will be joined by Geoff Crookes, who had a similar role on the project. The pair seem to be excited to move onto Digital Extremes' major new endeavor, which they said would be inspired
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