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Fraser Brown

Warframe's bonkers 1999 update sneaks out today: Y2K, dating, boy bands, motorbikes—it's gonna be a weird weekend

Warframe's weirdest update is due out today, Digital Extremes announced at The Game Awards last night. And that's saying a lot, for a game that absolutely revels in the strange. But this time we've got an alternate history of the turn of the millennium, an old Earth city to explore, a bunch of new pals sporting prototype warframes to hang out with and date, eventually culminating in a fight with a '90s boy band next year.

The free-to-play shooter has been gearing up for this update for a while, and the Drifter's mission to figure out what the heck is going on in the far-flung future will soon take them back in time to an alt-history where Earth is on the cusp of the 21st century and dealing with the apocalyptic techrot.

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