As someone who doesn't even own a TV, let alone a console, I'm trying to be totally normal about it. In fact, I'm happy for my colleagues who own PS5s and the Xbox Series X|S, the only two platforms Bandai Namco has made worthy of its audience's presence.

Elden Ring Nightreign is a standalone multiplayer co-op action survival game that challenges players to band together in order to defeat the Nightlord.

The Elden Ring Nightreign network test will function similarly to Elden Ring ’s network test in that its main purpose is to discover any problems and errors that may occur while playing. Additionally, the previous Elden Ring network test had five three-hour long test sessions, so you’ll have multiple opportunities to play.

Registration for the closed network test of Elden Ring Nightreign are open, publisher Bandai Namco announced today. The sign-up period for the co-op Elden Ring spinoff officially started on January 10 at 9AM ET and will run until January 20 at 9AM ET.

Nightreign still doesn’t have a release date, but its first online playtests do. FromSoftware has revealed times for when players can get their hands on the upcoming multiplayer spin-off, and signups for the free network tests on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are now underway.

Various technical verifications of online systems will be examined by conducting large-scale network load tests.” Elden Ring Nightreign is FromSoftware’s standalone co-oper

Elden Ring Nightreign's first network test is going live next month, but you'll only be able to play for three hours a day on most of its available days, unfortunately for the sickos who want to grind and maybe get bullied by infamously hard Dark Souls bosses well into the night.