FromSoftware reveals trailer and release date for 'Elden Ring' DLC

DLC is a tricky term in the world of video games.

Acronym for “downloadable content” (

in English), it refers to extra content that goes beyond the original work and that can be downloaded later, adding new material to a video game.

What all its life, with certain wisdom, the Spanish language called expansion.

It is tricky because it serves as a container term.

The industry calls DLC all types of extra content, whether it consists of new playable parts, more missions, new characters or simply unlocking a mere handful of accessories.

That is to say, under the umbrella of the acronym DLC you can hide everything from a merely cosmetic addition to a whole new world to discover that lasts dozens of hours.

or

weapon sets and accessories

could fall into this category.

Another: Many angrily pointed out last year that

actually seemed like mere DLC with original game aspirations (and price).

On the other hand, there is the legendary lineage of games like

,

or

, which more than expansions represented either authentic entire new games or the radical redefinition of the experience that we had already played.

They are all different examples but they are all, strictly speaking, DLCs.

In short, when you talk about the term in question, no one knows very well what to expect, not even in terms of development.

Suffice it to remember that many feared that the magnificent The

was going to be a mere DLC for

, or that

was originally intended as a DLC for

until the developers They saw the ability to become their own game.

DLC image.

This comes after the fact that on Wednesday, suddenly, FromSotfware, the company behind

or

and perhaps the most influential in the sector during the last decade, released the trailer for the DLC of the best game of 2022:

.

It is often said that the Internet goes crazy with anything.

This time he went crazy with reason.

We have written a lot about

, although never too much.

FromSoftware's leap into the open world was a sickeningly hypnotic, difficult, deep, intimately cryptic, and genius game.

was published

, the DLC that we now know will be released on June 21, half the

world went crazy.

In a few months we will know if

falls on the side of justified expansions or quarter-busters.

But the trailer, the price (40 euros) and FromSoftware's uncompromising commitment to quality predict great things.

Can “mere” DLC be the best game of 2023?

If Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team are behind it, he can.

2023 was unrepeatable, but 2024 is looking better and better.

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