Welcome to the brand new Polygon. We’re blissful to have you ever right here.
By now, you’ve seen the recent look. However as you poke round, you’ll uncover that the expertise of being on Polygon feels totally different. With this redesign, our web site, the house to every part we create, higher aligns with our editorial mission: to make your life slightly higher day by day.
The “you” on this case is “somebody who loves video video games and the leisure sub-cultures with which they share an orbit.” SFF. Horror. Animation. If you happen to love video games, you presumably share a few of these pursuits — perhaps all of them. We love all of them.
For the previous decade, our mission has been to make life slightly higher day by day, by way of a mixture of informing and entertaining our readers, and rigorously reporting on the world round them. And it’s been a dowsing rod, pointing us towards tales in and round these matters which might be greater than the disposable “content material” that clogs the web. We’ve got helped tens of millions of individuals higher benefit from the stuff they love. Our journalism has offered transparency and accountability to a notoriously opaque gaming trade. Our curation and criticism have launched readers to their future favourite films and TV exhibits. We’ve raised a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} for charities, and we’ve fostered an inclusive neighborhood. And we’ve elevated media that’s too typically dismissed, starting with video games, and increasing throughout comics, anime, and tabletop roleplay.
The media world, nonetheless, is totally different at this time than when Polygon launched in 2012. Or perhaps a yr in the past.
You’ve seen the headlines. The federal government has declared Google a monopolist. The careless use of generative AI threatens to undermine the authority and livelihood of established publications. Fb has turn out to be the web’s elephant graveyard, and Twitter is now X. The outdated locations all of us frolicked — each as writers and as readers — have both died or been overrun with a lot content material that you end up scrolling by way of a whole bunch of user-submitted posts in hopes of discovering one thing mildly entertaining.
The place the hell do folks go to search out and discuss cool stuff? All of us want various and comforting locations to hang around on the web. Locations that present the advantages of the social media and search period (neighborhood! data on the most recent issues! steering on questions each critical and foolish!) with out their exponentially nauseating listing of trade-offs. Locations with intentionality, curation, and soul: like your favourite bookshop with a shelf of worker suggestions and somebody behind the counter able to reply your questions.
We’re constructing Polygon to be a kind of spots. Emphasis on “constructing.” The brand new Polygon isn’t a once-in-a-decade replace; it’s a dwelling, ever-improving venture. Polygon is best at this time than it was yesterday, and the positioning shall be higher in 2025 than it’s now.
So, how can the brand new Polygon make your life slightly higher?
Initially, the positioning will reward each kind of reader, from the informal visitor who visits every month to essentially the most devoted fan who reloads our web site a number of occasions a day. Essentially the most recurrently up to date sections (a breaking information bar on the prime, the highest tales on the best) will change a number of occasions all through every weekday, spotlighting our must-read tales and conserving you knowledgeable with out requiring you to scroll to search out what issues at that precise second. Under that, we’ll have themed story collections tied to the week’s massive conversations in leisure, curated recreation suggestions that stay on the homepage itself (no click on required!), and a basket of hand-picked guides to get you into the month’s massive recreation.
If you come on to Polygon, we would like you to really feel such as you acquired what you got here for — or have been stunned to search out one thing even cooler.
Plus, every part now works the way you’d count on it. The layouts are cleaner, with much less obtrusive advertisements. Pages load sooner. The search field works. I might spend 1000’s of further phrases on all of the superb, delicate enhancements added to the positioning by our product crew. They took our concepts and made them into one thing unbelievable. They’re those who deserve our gratitude each time visiting Polygon works precisely because it ought to. Whether or not you go to from the homepage or a hyperlink shared by a good friend, you’ll get the absolute best expertise.
We nonetheless have work to do. We would like extra methods to construct neighborhood on Polygon itself, like taking higher benefit of our commenting platform, Coral. And we have now different massive concepts in thoughts that we’ll preserve mum for now. However we’re so blissful to have reached this level, from which Polygon’s wonderful writing, reporting, and video manufacturing has a cushty house that you just’re welcome to go to everytime you’d like.
In any case, we’ve made this place for you.
