Elden Ring has gone gold ahead of its February 25 release date. The news was revealed by Elden Ring producer Yasuhiro Kitao during the game’s Taipei Game Show 2022 presentation.
“Elden Ring was originally slated for release in January of this year, and it has been pushed back once to February. But please be assured, the title will be ready for sale on February 25. The master version has already been submitted, and right now, the team is working on a day one patch to make sure everything in the game is just so.”
Yasuhiro Kitao
The news that the game is finished will be a delight to many fans who were disappointed when the game was delayed from this month. Originally, the game would have been released on January 21, 2022. The game delay was announced in October with the note that “the depth & strategic freedom of the game exceeded initial expectations.” So the news that Elden Ring has gone gold and is finished will be comforting to those who anticipated it would potentially be delayed again.
This weekend, a massive exploit was found in Dark Souls 3, one of From Software’s previous games. That led to all of the Dark Souls games being taken offline on PC. Unfortunately, the code that was used for that exploit in Dark Souls 3 has been found in the data mined version of Elden Ring’s code. That would suggest that the upcoming game may also be vulnerable to the same Remote Code Execution exploit. If true, that would be disastrous for Elden Ring.
Hopefully, the team working on the day one patch for Elden Ring has enough time to ensure that the RCE vulnerability is not in the game when it is launched next month.
Elden Ring will be released on February 25, 2022. The game will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.