Digital Extremes announces Soulframe and indie publishing during TennoCon 2022

Digital Extremes has announced during TennoCon 2022 that it’s started development on a whole new game. Titled Soulframe, the team led by former Warframe senior staff Jeff Ross and Steve Sinclair, is a fantasy title — drifting away from the sci-fi setting Warframe has established over the past seven years.

In their place, Rebecca Ford is taking over as lead creative director on Warframe. In an interview with us shortly before TennoCon, she took us through the change, as well as how she’s been secretly leading the team over the past six months.

“It’s a lot. It’s overwhelming, it’s exciting. It’s fundamentally something I didn’t know I wanted to do. But now that I’ve been doing it for six months, I feel that I can take good care of Warframe. We’ve been in this really weird situation right now where no one knows, even though it’s been happening for six months. The team at Digital Extremes wanted me to know that I wanted to do it. They didn’t want to throw me to the wolf-frame, so to speak, and not give me a chance to say ‘whoa, this is not what I expected. That’s not for me.’”