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Star Wars Zero Company is an engaging tactics game that delivers compelling political undercurrents in a way the prequels couldn't.

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

Bungie has always struggled to figure out what Destiny actually is and how to support it.

Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball believes one way to help revitalize gaming is through something most people do not care for: in-game ads. Speaking to The Game Business, Ball said there exists a "two-sided problem" in the modern gaming space. Development costs for many games are now "way too high," and consumers do not want to pay more. Something has got to give, and one possible solution, as Ball sees it, is through advertising. He cited streaming TV as an example here, saying most of the growth for a variety of streaming platforms comes from ad-supported tiers. At the same time, peop

The long awaited survival game takes another shambling step closer.