{"id":83680,"date":"2026-06-04T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83680"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:36:42","slug":"elden-ring-tarnished-edition-preorders-are-now-available-release-date-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83680","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Preorders Are Now Available, Release Date Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available to preorder for Switch 2, and we now have a confirmed release date for the game as well &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ELDENRING\/status\/2062534987836973362\">August 28, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The upgraded release was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-nintendo-switc-2\">during a Nintendo Direct<\/a> last year and includes new armor sets and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-is-getting-two-new-classes-with-nintendo-switch-2-tarnished-edition\">starting classes<\/a> in addition to the base game and Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. <\/p>\n<p>The new preorder listing confirms the Tarnished Edition will be priced at $79.99. However, it also confirms that the new edition only comes with a game-key card. <\/p>\n<p>Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Preorders Now Live for Switch 2<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"catalog-item-wrapper\" data-catalogid=\"9ca4e022-f577-471e-9d26-7b373012918b\" data-id=\"237521\">\n<section data-transform=\"catalog-item\" data-catalogid=\"9ca4e022-f577-471e-9d26-7b373012918b\" data-id=\"237521\" data-show-pricing=\"true\" data-highlighted=\"false\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zdcs.link\/aN3Z2X\" data-aps-asin=\"B0GWGF8KFC\">Get it at Amazon<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/zdcs.link\/QpB1y0\">Get it at Best Buy<\/a><strong><\/strong><strong>What\u2019s Included in the Tarnished Edition: <\/strong>Full Base GameFull Shadow of the Erdtree Expansion 2 New Starting Classes: Heavy Knight and Knight of Ides4 New Armor Sets 3 Customization Options for Torrent <\/p>\n<p>I commend the size of the rock anyone who hasn\u2019t heard of FromSoftware\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-23rd-annual-game-developer-choice-awards\">Game of the Year<\/a> is living under. IGN wasn\u2019t shy about lauding Elden Ring in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-review\">our 10\/10 review<\/a>, calling it a \u201cnew benchmark\u201d for open world exploration and gratifying combat challenges. We had similar praise for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-dlc-review\">Shadow of the Erdtree expansion<\/a>, which prompted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available to preorder for Switch 2, and we now have a confirmed release date for the game as well &#8211; August 28, 2026. The upgraded release was announced during a Nintendo Direct last year and includes new armor sets and starting classes in addition to the base game and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":83682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83684,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83680\/revisions\/83684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}