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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN Heads to PAX East, Promises Immersive Theater Demo

Originally posted on Nerdist | By Rotem Rusak | Last updated May 6, 2025 6:20 PM ET

Are you gearing up to head to PAX East? We at Nerdist certainly are. You’ll even be able to catch the highlights of the event streaming on Nerdist‘s YouTube channel throughout the weekend. As we close in on the beginning of the con, we’re getting excited about a few different things. And one of the big ones is Elden Ring Nightreign‘s big splash at the event. Bandai Namco is bringing the massively anticipated next game in the franchise to PAX East, and it’s combining a demo for the game with immersive theater?! We’ve been thinking a lot about immersive theater recently, and really do believe it makes a lot of sense hand in hand with video gameplay. So we absolutely can’t wait to discover what this is all about. Here’s everything we know about what Elden Ring Nightreign is bringing to PAX East.

Before we get into the nitty gritty of Elden Ring Nightreign‘s PAX East adventures, we’d be remiss not to share a brand new trailer for the game that just recently released. In it, we see one of the eight Nightlords that players must tackle in the game: Libra.

Is that sufficiently cool for you? Okay! Back to PAX East! Bandai Namco shares the following about its activation. “Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. is heating up springtime in Boston with can’t miss activations at PAX East, including a brand new demo for FromSoftware, Inc.’s hotly anticipated next game, ELDEN RING™ NIGHTREIGN. The demo will feature large in an immersive theater on the show floor, where popular content creators will enlist players to take on the game’s challenging three-player co-op action, and if successful win prizes for everyone the audience.” This sounds like it will be one elaborate adventure.

Additionally, the company notes of its PAX East attraction, “ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone PvE co-op action game set in the same universe as the bestselling action RPG ELDEN RING™. This entirely new experience thrusts players into a harsh and unforgiving world, where they team up in squads of three to explore across a changing map and outlast a three day-and-night cycle to take on terrifying bosses known as Nightlords. PAX East attendees will have a chance to experience this game in a once-in-a-lifetime event, entering an immersive dome theater and participating in demos that will pair members of the audience with popular content creators. Seasoned Souls-like players Distortion2, Oroboro, LilAggy, Larxa, and Parkenharbor will enlist one lucky player for each demo session as they vie for prizes for everyone in attendance, while epic shout casters Jake Lyon and Shyowager amplify the action. ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN theater demos will run every hour at the Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. booth (16055); attendees will need to come to the booth to register for free to receive tickets with showtimes.”