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Press release:
Canadian developer and publisher Digital Extremes connected with its “Warframe” players in record numbers during TennoCon, setting an all-time Steam record of 154,246 CCU (concurrent users).

The previous CCU high for Warframe on Steam was 131,766 in November 2018. While debuting its new Heart of Deimos open world expansion, the stream amassed a peak record concurrent viewership across Twitch and Steam of 469,868, gathering a combined 2.44 million hours watched on Twitch.

Without a physical event to host, Digital Extremes broke new ground by inviting players into the open world in real time during the TennoLive presentation. Host Rebecca Ford delighted and surprised Warframe players who gathered in-game from across the world as they witnessed first-hand, in real time, new gameplay features while also being presented on stream.

The record-breaking news hits during a difficult year for physical video game events. Like the rest of the world, Digital Extremes was forced to work from home in March.

It pivoted in May to transform TennoCon 2020 into an all-digital event, eschewing its annual physical event held in London, Ontario, since 2016. TennoCon 2020 streamed on Twitch.tv/Warframe, Steam, YouTube and Facebook Live all day, Saturday, August 1.

While TennoCon is a community event designed to connect Warframe players with the development team, a portion of the proceeds are given to local community organizations. Digital Extremes partnered with Autism Ontario London and Alzheimer Society London and Middlesex (ASLM) to donate $100,000 CAD to each for a total donatio of of $200,000.

The new expansion, Heart of Deimos, contains Warframe’s third open world, following Plains of Eidolon (2017) and Fortuna (2018). It contains the new community-created Warframe, Xaku, the deeply customizable new Helminth System, and a cinematic new player experience, planned for release across all platforms (PC, PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and Nintendo™ Switch) on Tuesday, August 25.

ABOUT DIGITAL EXTREMES
Founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, Digital Extremes ranks as one of the world’s top independent video game development studios. Originating with the co-creation of Epic Games’ multi-million unit selling Unreal® franchise including Unreal and Unreal Tournament, Digital Extremes went on to develop Dark Sector®, BioShock® for the PlayStation®3, the BioShock 2 multiplayer campaign, and The Darkness® II.

The studio has reached its greatest critical and commercial success with the free-to-play action game, Warframe®, boasting a global community of 50 million registered players on PC, PS4™, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch™. For more information about Digital Extremes, visit www.digitalextremes.com. To sign up for Warframe, visit www.warframe.com.