Elden Ring Player Count is Way Up

An Elden Ring player has achieved the mind-boggling feat of single-handedly beating Malenia at Rune Level 1, quite literally. While the Elden Ring community is quite well acquainted with some outlandish challenges, this seems to have taken it to a different league altogether.

An Elden Ring streamer has suffered a gruesome and quite hilarious defeat, losing an eleven-hour randomized permadeath run to a rare Roundtable Hold invasion while in the bathroom. Two years after launch, developer FromSoftware has finally revealed the release date of Elden Ring's highly anticipated Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, set to launch on June 21.

A fan of Elden Ring has found a new way to pass the time until the game's upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree expansion arrives by making character art. Their gallery of40 different Elden Ring characters has delighted the game's community, drawing praise and attention.

Elden Ring players have discovered that it is possible to push Walking Mausoleums off the map. A commonly shared sentiment about Elden Ring is that when playing the game, it feels like there is always something new to discover regarding new areas, quests, or even consequences due to players' actions. It appears that this may be accurate, because fans continue to find new things to do two years after the game's release.

An Elden Ring fan on Reddit has pointed out a potentially revealing aspect of Messmer's design, inviting a new storm of speculation about the mysterious character's role in the greater lore of the game. This observation can be viewed as part of a general desire to know more about Messmer as, while strikingly designed and clearly important to the overall narrative of Shadow of the Erdtree, he is mostly shrouded in mystery, never even being mentioned in the base game.

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.

A brand new Elden Ring manga webcomic will be released at the end of March.

Elden Ring’s upcoming expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree, is out this Summer and adds a new world, the Land of Shadow, complete with new enemies, over ten bosses and much more. It doesn’t affect the outcome of the base game (and vice versa), but you need to play a fairly significant amount to even access the expansion.

Despite playing the game for over 1,000 hours, anElden Ring player was quite surprised when they encountered a boss for the first time in the game. While one might think it was simply an oversight, it seems like they are not the only player in the Elden Ring community who have missed it.

may be Fromsoftware's most-played game, but that doesn't mean fans have managed to unearth all of its hidden treasures. While dedicated adventurers can take pride in their dedication to hunting down secrets, it would appear that some pots have yet to be upturned. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki confirmed as much, noting that while the majority of 's secrets have been found, there's at least one that's eluded the player base.

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.