Elden Ring DLC Trailer Has Multiple Berserk References

While attention turns to ’s upcoming DLC, a detail hiding in plain sight in the base game may have already revealed an important part of ’s lore. is full of hidden lore, but it can sometimes be difficult to recognize the full significance of the information scattered across The Lands Between. This can, and apparently has, led to some notable facts effectively blending in with more generic flavor text.

An Elden Ring player believes that the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC might take place in the ominously empty middle part of the game's map. Elden Ring fans have been speculating about the upcoming DLC, and this theory has sparked many conversations among players, who offer different perspectives on the potential location and significance surrounding the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.

Let Me Solo Her, the legendary Elden Ring player who has helped countless others to defeat the hardest boss in the game, might finally move on from his crusade upon the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. This much anticipated expansion, which is expected to introduce even more tough opponents, will drop in mid-2024.

DLC finally has a release date and received a new trailer alongside the announcement. In true FromSoftware fashion, there are a lot of hidden details and new enemies in the trailer. But that also means there's plenty of room for speculation while waiting for the DLC to fully release.

A new combat system in ’s DLC will likely change how players approach difficult challenges with bosses and mini-bosses in the additional content for the game. The long-awaited expansion was announced back in February 2023, a year after the base game’s original release. At the time, little information was provided other than the title itself and artwork featuring a blonde character mounted on a Spirit Steed, with an alternative version of the Erdtree far in the distance. Now, more information has been uncovered with the DLC’s gameplay reveal trailer.

Inspired by the Shadow of the Erdtree gameplay reveal trailer, a talented Elden Ring fan completes an impressive painting based on the setting of the new DLC expansion, the Land of Shadow. The Elden Ring painting depicts the Erdtree and the mythical shadow covering the new region that players will soon explore this June.

Elden Ring Shadow of Erdtree DLC's trailer has managed to build up the right amount of hype with tons of surprises, and amid that, fans want one of the monsters showcased to be friendly. While it might sound like quite an unusual request by Elden Ring players, the friendly NPCs in the Soulsborne genre always grab a lot of attention considering how unforgiving the rest of the game's world is.

Some new enemies in ’s DLC have been shown with the reveal of the expansion’s gameplay trailer. The long-awaited DLC for FromSoftware’s award-winning RPG was first announced in February 2023, approximately a year after the base game’s original release. At the time, the content was teased with key art featuring a blond character, believed to be Miquella, mounted on a Spirit Steed with the Erdtree far in the distance. Little to no details were known about the DLC until the DLC gameplay trailer reveal, which showcased a lot of the upcoming content.

's DLC,, promises to follow in FromSoft's footsteps in the worst possible way. The upcoming DLC finally has a release date, following a cryptic gameplay trailer released on February 21. The trailer also revealed some of the areas and settings players will explore in, including one sure to raise the hackles of any veteran fan.

From Software president Hidetaka Miyazaki has acknowledged that members of the Dark Souls studio had misgivings about Elden Ring's shift to a full-blown open world format, while qualifying that Elden Ring's vision for an open world was never "traditional". Rather, Elden Ring is an "open world" game in the same way that Dark Souls is a "hard" game, Miyazaki feels. Confused? Well, this is the godfather of the notoriously unforthcoming Souls series we're talking about. I've never interviewed the guy, but I suspect he composes his responses using the game's soapstone messaging system.

Elden Ring has revealed roughly how large the Land of Shadow map will be in the upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree DLC expansion. FromSoftware has long made sizable expansions for its various games over the years, and so it was long assumed that Elden Ring would eventually get DLC of its own.

A rough notion of the size of the map in the DLC for has been revealed, hinting at how much players will have to explore once the extra content is made available later this year. The DLC was announced back in February 2023, around a year after the base game’s successful launch in 2022. At the time, the expansion was revealed along with some key art, featuring a blonde character mounted on a Spirit Steed with a darkened Erdtree in the distance. Little else was known about the highly awaited DLC following the announcement.