{"id":137778,"date":"2026-07-15T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-203828"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:35:00","slug":"the-duskbloods-network-test-kicks-off-on-switch-2-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/the-duskbloods-network-test-kicks-off-on-switch-2-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duskbloods Network Test Kicks Off On Switch 2 Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c53836425ee7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2c53836425ee7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Applications open next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During Nintendo&#8217;s most recent Direct broadcast, many were hoping for a final release date for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/duskbloods\">The Duskbloods<\/a> when it appeared mid-presentation. Alas, that didn&#8217;t happen, but FromSoftware instead promised a network test for the summer, and now we have a date.<\/p>\n<p>Relaying the news on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoEurope\/status\/2077393549113323670\">social media<\/a>, Nintendo announced that the network test will take place from <strong>21st August to the 24th August<\/strong>. So basically a long weekend&#8217;s worth of gameplay. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/07\/the-duskbloods-network-test-kicks-off-on-switch-2-next-month\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications open next week. During Nintendo&#8217;s most recent Direct broadcast, many were hoping for a final release date for The Duskbloods when it appeared mid-presentation. Alas, that didn&#8217;t happen, but FromSoftware instead promised a network test for the summer, and now we have a date. Relaying the news on social media, Nintendo announced that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}