Digital Extremes held their annual TennoCon convention yesterday to gather Warframe players to celebrate the third-person shooter, and discuss its future, which now includes plans for a Switch version of the game. They also discussed new content, unveiling plans for two new Warframes, a new expansion called Fortuna, and another to follow called Codename: Railjack which will "enable 1-4 players to board a warship on land and ascend into space to explore and fight!" We have a one-minute Fortuna Update Reveal Trailer and lots of details to share:

The Fortuna Expansion
Bursting with an imaginative terrain and science fiction aesthetic, Fortuna is introduced with a whimsically synchronized musical video guaranteed to surprise and delight! The Venusian landscape packs exciting new gameplay experiences with the introduction of a new faction and lore -- the Solaris United faction and its struggle against their Corpus overlords -- and an expanded level of vertical gameplay.

Starting from the underground Colony of Fortuna where players pick up bounties and missions, Tenno (players' in-game name) will ascend to the surface of The Orb Vallis to view an exotic new terrain blanketed with Orokin structures, towering mushroom stands, and oceanic flora. Tenno will be able to traverse the landscape more quickly with the Bondi K-Drive, a single-player hoverboard that nimbly jets across the landscape at the touch of a controller.

Key Features in Fortuna Include:

• The Orb Vallis, The New Open World -- Building on the success of Plains of Eidolon's earthen Landscape, The Orb Vallis is Digital Extremes' massive new Landscape. Volatile, mercurial clouds of blue and orange loom over a sci-fi terrain populated with seascape flora, giant mushrooms, alien rock formations, rare creatures, and more.
• Solaris United and Fortuna -- The cyborg Faction Solaris United live in the Blade-Runner-esque Debt-Internment Colony, Fortuna. Similar to the gathering bazaars of Cetus in Plains of Eidolon, Fortuna is an underground hub city that serves as a factory to clean coolant rivers and doubles as a trading hub for the region.
• New Combat Experiences -- The Corpus occupiers, led by the profit-obsessed Nef Anyo, bring new technology and warriors to bear. Alongside new Corpus ground troop variants, monstrous new Spider Bot enemies of all shapes and sizes will challenge players to face their fears when they explore The Orb Vallis and face-off with the prophet of profit.
• Ride a Hoverboard -- Blaze across the wide open Venusian landscape by piloting the Bondi K-Drive. Call up this handy customizable hoverboard and quickly glide, jump, and trick across a variety of terrain.
• Join the Conservation Movement -- Switch your mindset from blast-happy mercenary to friendly savior. The strange, wonderful animals of the Vallis are going extinct. Explore the new world of Fortuna and apply your new skills to track, lure, and capture them for relocation.
• Musically -- The talented sound team at DE has engineered an alien-tech soundscape of eerie effects and ominous music that set the sonic tone for an incredibly rich experience, and they are joined by renowned sound composer Keith Power who has returned with an upbeat, hum-out-loud musical intro of Fortuna unlike anything you have heard before.

Codename: Railjack
Digital Extremes' newest expansion is part of a grander vision. In addition to the open-world expansion of Fortuna, a separate future update takes Warframe down a totally uncharted path. 'Codename: Railjack' will enable 1-4 players to board a warship on land and ascend into space to explore and fight!

Players will coordinate responsibilities across the military spacecraft to engage in PvE combat against hostile enemies. The full space experience grants extensive player freedom with options to launch Archwings into space to board, infiltrate and destroy enemy ships during battles. This future update looks to create a cohesive gameplay experience between Warframe's open Landscapes, procedurally generated levels, and a new outer-space freedom in a unique sci-fi world.

Key Features in 'Codename: Railjack' include:

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AirMech Wastelands is now out of Early Access and officially released for Windows on Steam (thanks PC Gamer), offering an action/RPG spinoff of this sci-fi series inspired by Herzog Zwei. Word is this solo campaign arm of the AirMech project is still considered beta, but we're not sure what distinction is being drawn there. Here's a description of the game:

AirMech Wastelands is an Action-RPG set in an alternate future America following a global collapse of modern civilization. You are one of a few skilled survivors who are able to operate AirMechs and maintain them. You begin in the center of what used to be America where pockets of survivors remain, since the coastlines were reduced to ashes during the war.

You will rise up from scavenger to leader, adding AirMechs and the ability to build armies of your own to command. Will you discover the source of the continued attacks on humanity?

The Antstream Website has first details on plans for a streaming service to provide subscribers with online access to a large library of classic videogames from back in the day (thanks Indie Retro News via Ant). They call this the brainchild of CEO Steve Cottam, saying it was "Inspired by his involvement in 3DO development in the mid-nineties," though hopefully it will be prove to be a greater long-term success. Ian Livingstone is also involved, as the former "Life President of Eidos" is the company's chairman. Word is this will launch soon in the U.K. for desktop PCs, but the plan is to eventually roll it out to other territories and to add support for mobile devices. Here's more:

Antstream - Retro Gaming Evolved!
Antstream is the World’s first retro game streaming subscription service, available soon on the Android and Windows platforms.

We have a huge library of licensed and carefully curated classic games available to play on demand. It has never been easier to play - No downloads, no fiddly emulators, just instant streaming.

Antstream also adds a unique twist with exclusive challenges, allowing you to compete against your friends, and the global Antstream user-base.

This video (NSFW) shows off the Battlefield V alpha in all its glory. This is running at 4K and 60 fps with all the bells and whistles turned on, inspiring creator MassiveG to boast it's the best-looking Battlefield V video on the Internet. The clip runs almost 12 minutes, showing off combat, weather effects, destructible environments, and more from the upcoming military shooter sequel. Word is:

NO artificial frame-blending, color correction was used in this video.

This is Battlefield V viewed as intended by its art team.

Recorded with YCbCr 4:2:2, 12bit color depth.

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Here's the new list of last week's bestselling titles on Steam. Until next week, this is Casey Kasem saying, keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

1. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
2. Grand Theft Auto V
3. Event Pass: Sanhok
4. FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION
5. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
6. Divinity: Original Sin 2
7. Jurassic World Evolution
8. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
9. The Forest
10. ARK: Survival Evolved

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I'm not a serious soccer fan, but I enjoy sports, so I was drawn in by the World Cup and watched some of yesterday's games. It's not a complicated sport to follow as a casual observer, and I mostly enjoyed the experience. But as much as it makes me feel like an old man to admit this, I have to say the background noise quickly started to grate on me severely. Thankfully there are no more vuvuzelas involved, but clearly fans in the stands attempt to make as much noise as possible every minute. This is to the point where the ambient noise level sounds like the scoring celebrations in other sports, with the goals becoming positively deafening. The good news is that turning the sound way down solved this problem well enough, and it turns out not listening to the announcers doesn't really detract from the experience at all.

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