Better End

How much storytelling can you do with a few yards of cloth? If you're FromSoftware, a whole freaking lot! In Elden Ring and FromSoftware's ever-growing catalog of solemn sword adventures, there's an astounding amount of attention paid to cloth. The shape, the texture, the movement. But why? Polygon's resident man of the cloth Patrick is here to break it all down.#eldenring

A co-op game for friends with attention spans.

Halo: Campaign Evolved is set to receive its first major patch next week, one that will give players more control over the game's visuals as well as make improvements to Jackals and Sgt. Johnson. As outlined by the Halo Support X account, a patch coming sometime next week will fix a few pain points for players of Halo Studios' remake. The update should make graphics purists happy, as it will add the ability to disable the game's very noticeable film grain and chromatic aberration. The patch will also include "additional stability improvements across multiple platforms." On the gameplay front,

Bigger isn't always better. Except for sometimes when it is.

Xbox's Chief Technology Officer, Scott Van Vliet, has offered transparency and an explanation for the system and service outage that affected game libraries, sign-in, and game launching for many players from late Sunday night and well into Monday, vowing to "do better."