Randy Orton Paid A Guy $1,000 To Grind Levels For His Elden Ring Character

Lords of the Fallen looks set to give Elden Ring's player-created challenges a run for their money with new features like permadeath and randomizer mods. 

Elden Ring is a game constantly throwing up new mysteries, but one head scratcher involving a datamined sword had Elden Ring fans stumped for the past couple of months. Dataminers had discovered several icons depicting three unique swords, one encased in a stone sheath, and two more unsheathed and with intricate designs. After searching high and low for these mysterious weapons, fans had chalked these icons and swords off as cut content.

An Elden Ring fan has discovered that a sword cut from the game has, in fact, been right under our noses all this time.

Elden Ring has its fair share of monsters. There are stone faces melded onto sentient boulders, wandering soldiers with marionette cages for stomachs, and forlorn wanderers with worms for faces.

The saga of nerdy haute couture continues. Following in the footsteps of Jimmy Choo’s Sailor Moon collection, and Loewe’s collaboration with Studio Ghibli, you can currently find a lineup of premium streetwear inspired by Elden Ring at Ark/8. Dubbed The Lands Between Collection, Ark/8 has delivered a fashion-forward lineup of apparel that has some select members of the Polygon staff turning out their pockets for extra runes.

How much would you be willing to pay for some cool, official merch of your favorite game? If your favorite game is Elden Ring and your answer was £1,400 (about $1,700), then you’re in luck, because that’s how much the most expensive item from the new ARK/8 x Elden Ringcollection costs. 

FromSoft games are, first and foremost, redolent with drip, and Elden Ring is no different. Sure, there's something about bosses, a man with a pot for a head and the Game of Thrones guy in there, but 2022's game of the year is above all a beautiful and expansive catwalk. See?

Luxury streetwear based on Elden Ring has just dropped, but it'll cost you up to £1,400/$1,700 to buy the clothes.

It's no surprise that horror games would include some frightening characters, but not every face of terror in video games comes from a title dedicated to fear. Whether it's the monstrous bosses from or subtle chills from games like , there are plenty of terrifying figures across genres. Some have left legacies that are remembered years after their debut, while others have appeared in recent years but made immediate impacts within their respective games.

YouTuber Zullie the Witch has spent the past few weeks bringing Armored Core 6 objects into Elden Ring to see just how big they are. In AC6, you're piloting a gigantic mech suit that makes helicopters look like flies, so the world is scaled around your enormity. That means if you plopped a Tarnished onto the road, they'd be miniscule. But do it the other way around and everything in Armored Core 6 looks comically large.

Imitating the infamous Souls-like formula is no small feat, and Lords of the Fallen knows it. You can’t just copy and paste Dark Souls and call it a day anymore, which is forcing developers to find new ways to innovate the genre. Already this year we’ve had the mechanically tinged take in the form of Lies of P, but Lords of the Fallen takes it one step further by delivering a distinct mechanic that completely changes how you play the game. But is it enough to proudly stand as part of the Souls-like pantheon? Well, the answer to that is a decidedly mixed bag.

If you haven't been keeping an eye on early 2024, we'd encourage you to do so. The current release schedule is, quite frankly, absurd. In the space of just under two months, we're getting: