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Soulframe enters Open Beta this week
Soulframe is finally opening its doors to everyone. After years of invite-only testing, Digital Extremes has announced that its fantasy action RPG will enter Open Preludes this week, allowing anyone on PC to jump in and try the game without waiting for an invitation. Since first entering closed...

Soulframe to launch into free open beta this week, as Warframe devs go head-to-head with WoW: Forever
Soulframe's Preludes (its own version of a beta) is finally opening its doors to the whole world ahead of the Verse of the Veilands update. Starting this week, anyone who wants to can simply download the game and hop in, no invite required. Read more

Soulframe Open Preludes launches next week
Players will no longer need invitations to dive into Soulframe's alpha playtests starting next week.

Wolf mounts and corruption arrive in Soulframe’s Verse of the Veilands as open PC testing begins November 6
Wolf mounts, when? Next Prelude! Possibly the most anticipated Soulframe feature unveiled at TennoCon 2026, wolf mounts are finally being released. Yes, Digital Extremes is letting the dogs (wolfs) out. The studio announced that players will be able to grow their adorable wolf pups into the...

Soulframe opens up for everyone next week as the Warframe devs prepare the fantasy action RPG for one of its 'biggest, most violent' updates ever next month
Verse of the Veilands will radically change the structure of the game so it's easier for new players to follow.
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Warframe's fantasy-pilled sister Soulframe finally goes open to all this November, though Digital Extremes are "nervous" about certain changes
Warframe creators Digital Extremes have announced that their free-to-play fantasy RPG Soulframe will be available for everyone to download on 6th November, after two years in closed alpha. Finally, you serfs without "prelude" keys will be able to fire up Soulframe.com and make sense of my ranting...

Digital Extremes Puts Soulframe Preludes in Community Hands, as Its Early Alpha Playtest Opens November 6 to All PC Players and Adds Rideable Wolves
Today, Digital Extremes announced the imminent opening of its early Alpha playtest of Soulframe Preludes to all PC players. Next week, the Canadian developer is removing the invitation requirement for its in-development fantasy action RPG, so everyone can get in starting Friday, November 6. The...

Soulframe is finally entering open alpha, but it looks like a completely different game
Soulframe has finally opened access to everyone, scrapping the invite system and allowing you to check out Digital Extremes' new game.

Phantom Blade Zero Director Reveals How He Made 'A Playable Kung Fu Movie’ with Donnie Yen
Polygon spoke with Phantom Blade Zero director Soulframe Liang about how developer S-Game, with Donnie Yen's help, created the game's wuxia combat.

Phantom Blade Zero Director Insisted It Isn’t a “Soulslike”, but Day One PC Mods Add FromSoftware’s Enemy Respawns and Boss Resets
Following the announcement of Phantom Blade Zero, director Soulframe Liang made abundantly clear that S-Game's first AAA game on PC and PlayStation 5 isn't a soulslike, as it doesn't feature some of FromSoftware's most brutal gameplay mechanics, such as enemies respawning every time a checkpoint is...
Phantom Blade Zero Director Discusses The “Extraordinary Journey” of its Development
"Soulframe" Liang spoke about how he first started out making games through an RPG Maker title dubbed Rainblood: Town of Death.

Soulframe elaborates on what ‘Open Preludes’ actually means and its ‘ambitious’ Preludes 17
Before we begin, we’ll have to de-mystify some of Soulframe’s vernacular here because Digital Extremes loves to create made-up words from out of nowhere. “Preludes” is basically the term for the game’s pre-alpha, and a Prelude with a number following it is the most recent major build; the MMO does...

Soulframe announces plans to enter an open testing phase as it readies its next pre-alpha build
While Soulframe has been dishing out a lot of invitations to its pre-alpha/Preludes testing, you still needed to wait for said invite to arrive to your inbox if you wanted to try out this fantasy multiplayer RPG. That appears to be changing very soon, however, as Digital Extremes has offered its...
Phantom Blade Zero Composer Made Some Boss Fight Music Before the Boss Was Designed
Composer Caisheng Bo has revealed that creative director "Soulframe" Liang had incredible amounts of trust in him to create the music.
Phantom Blade Zero Features “At Least” 50 Bosses, Though Director Teases “Even More”
S-Game's Qiwei "Soulframe" Liang also promises greater enemy variety as players venture further into the hack-and-slash action RPG.

Phantom Blade Zero: The Big Pre-Launch Interview
Soulframe, the Phantom Blade Zero director, walked us through the biggest talking points for this month's upcoming title.

Phantom Blade Zero Can Theoretically Be Beaten With a Childhood Wooden Sword, as Director Soulframe Liang Channels Kung Fu Philosophy
From traditional Chinese wuxia to the clockwork machinations of steampunk technology, Phantom Blade Zero fuses the two to create something new: Kung Fu Punk. In addition to our new hands-on with the opening hours of Phantom Blade Zero on PC, we also had the pleasure of fielding some questions to...

Phantom Blade Zero Interview: Story Length, New Game Plus Revealed by the Director
We traveled to China to chat with Soulframe about his upcoming action RPG, Phantom Blade Zero.

Soulframe’s latest patch applies wolfpup fixes and lets players allocate their pup’s stats
Training a puppy is hard, but just because that’s true in real life doesn’t mean that it also has to be true in Soulframe. Luckily, thanks to the multiplayer RPG’s most recent patch, the wolfpup that was added in the last major pre-alpha build can now be adjusted to be precisely the kind of doggie...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 580: A Loftia set of goals
Justin and Chris discuss WoW Forever, Guild Wars 2, Loftia, RuneScape Dragonwilds, the Pokemon MMO, and Soulframe, with adventures in Fallout 76, Diablo III, Aion 2, and Skate, plus mailbag topics on minigames and ragequitting.

Soulframe adds fishing, weapon epithets, and wolf puppy training in its latest Preludes build
A great evil has come upon Soulframe. It long existed in the margins, its arrival seemed inevitable, yet one could hope that it would never come to pass. But there is no more space for ambiguity. Fishing is here, and Soulframe players now must contend with the horrifying reality of a game in which...

New Soulframe update brings the world to life with adorable wolf pups, fishing, and weather
Soulframe Preludes 16 adds new weapon upgrades, wolfpup companions you can train, fishing, and dynamic weather to the Warframe sibling. Read the full story on PCGamesN: New Soulframe update brings the world to life with adorable wolf pups, fishing, and weather

New Soulframe update brings the world to life with adorable wolf pups, fishing, and weather
Soulframe Preludes 16 adds new weapon upgrades, wolfpup companions you can train, fishing, and dynamic weather to the Warframe sibling.
Soulframe Officially Launches Preludes 16: Of Hook & Hound
Soulframe has released the latest free update for their Alpha period with the introduction of Preludes 16: Of Hook & Hound
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