TennoCon is upon us once again, and the Digital Extremes fan event's brought us an extended gameplay demo for Warframe: 1999, Warframe's next major story update. When Warframe: 1999 was first teased last year, I'll admit I was skeptical about how on-board I'd be for the space ninja game's dabbling in CRT-era nostalgia. But when this year's TennoCon gameplay demo kicked off with an original single from On-lyne, an alt-universe NSYNC knockoff, I knew I was wrong to doubt.
Warframe: 1999 will pluck players out of Warframe's far future setting and place them in an episode from its history: the final New Year's Eve of an alternate 20th century, where they'll hunt named Albrecht Entrati as an outbreak of a biomechanical Techrot infestation is corrupting the world's computers and machinery. While hunting Entrati, you'll get to explore city streets littered with alt-history '90s ephemera and Techrot monsters, drive high tech motorcycles, and—prepare yourselves—dabble in Warframe's first romance system.
