{"id":384949,"date":"2025-10-28T21:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-delay-2022"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:58:53","slug":"elden-ring-delayed-to-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-delayed-to-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring delayed to February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/elden-ring-delayed-to-february.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>We sadly won&#8217;t be playing <strong>Elden Ring<\/strong> in January next year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-gameplay-e3-202\">as we previously thought<\/a>. Today, Bandai Namco announced that FromSoftware&#8217;s highly-anticipated action RPG has been pushed back to February 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Elden Ring was previously set for release on January 21, 2022 so that&#8217;s about a one-month delay &#8211; fairly small in the grand scheme. In the Tweet breaking the news, the developer cited &#8220;the depth &amp; strategic freedom of the game&#8221; as needing more work, having exceeded its initial expectations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Important message:ELDEN RING will release on Feb 25, 2022, as the depth &amp; strategic freedom of the game exceeded initial expectations. Thank you for your trust &amp; patience. We look forward to seeing you experience the game in the Closed Network Test in Nov.The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ELDENRING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ELDENRING<\/a> Team<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-delay-2022\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/elden-ring-delay-2022\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sadly won&#8217;t be playing Elden Ring in January next year as we previously thought. Today, Bandai Namco announced that FromSoftware&#8217;s highly-anticipated action RPG has been pushed back to February 25, 2022. Elden Ring was previously set for release on January 21, 2022 so that&#8217;s about a one-month delay &#8211; fairly small in the grand scheme. In the Tweet breaking the news, the developer cited &#8220;the depth &amp; strategic freedom of the game&#8221; as needing more work, having exceeded its initial expectations. Important message:ELDEN RING will release on Feb 25, 2022, as the depth &amp; strategic freedom of the game exceeded initial expectations. Thank you for your trust &amp; patience. We look forward to seeing you experience the game in the Closed Network Test in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elden-ring-delayed-to-february\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23,706,964,965,59,52,44,45,34,99,60,4616],"class_list":["post-384949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action","tag-bandai-namco","tag-elden-ring","tag-fromsoftware","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-rpg","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elden Ring delayed to February | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We sadly won&#039;t be playing Elden Ring in January next year as we previously thought. 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