Wahey, Elden Ring Nightreign will be undergoing a network test that will allow you to play a bit early next year, and you’ll be able to sign up very soon.

Elden Ring Nightreign was one of the big curations at The game Awards yesterday, as you’d expect from anything with FromSoftware’s critically acclaimed fingertips. Now, Bandai Namco has revealed that it will conduct a network test early next year, with registrations starting in January.

If you somehow missed Nightreign’s announcement, it’s a co-op-focused title that will allow multiple players to take on FromSofftverse bosses in collaborative environments. So yeah, Elden Ring with your companions in a way that doesn’t just leave each other cheeky notes and occasionally barge in to help out in a particular fight or mess.

This new game will launch sometime in 2025 and will undergo a network test shortly after the calendar flips to the new year.

The test is scheduled for February 2025 and registration will begin from January 10, so you really don’t have to wait long to try your luck and be one of those selected. However, only the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S are mentioned as platforms for testing, meaning you’re apparently out of luck if you’re on PC or next-gen consoles.

What will you do if you enter? Well, Bandai writes: “The network test is a preliminary verification test in which selected testers play a portion of the game before the full release of the game. Various technical verifications of online systems will be examined by conducting network testing. large-scale network load.”

If it helps, think of those technical parts as the bosses you’re fighting while you’re fighting bosses, with network stability for the full cast being the big reward you get for killing them. You can call it a ‘stable network loading aura’ if that doesn’t sound fancy enough when you’re bragging to your peers that you got it.

For more talk about Elden Ring, be sure to check out what Sony recently said when it confirmed its interest in purchasing FromSoftware’s parent company Kadokawa.