Welcome to the new Polygon. We’re joyful 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 all the things we create, higher aligns with our editorial mission: to make your life slightly higher on daily basis.
The “you” on this case is “someone who loves video games and the entertainment sub-cultures with which they share an orbit.” SFF. Horror. Animation. If you happen to love video games, you presumably share some of these pursuits — possibly all of them. We love all of them.
For the previous decade, our mission has been to make life slightly higher on daily basis, via 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 can be greater than the disposable “content” that clogs the web. We have helped hundreds of thousands of folks higher take pleasure in 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 motion pictures and TV reveals. We’ve raised tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} for charities, and we’ve fostered an inclusive group. 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, nevertheless, is totally different at present than when Polygon launched in 2012. Or perhaps a 12 months 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 Fb has grow to be the web’s elephant graveyard, and Twitter is now X. The outdated locations all of us frolicked — each as writers and as readers — have both died or been overrun with a lot content material that you end up scrolling via tons of of user-submitted posts in hopes of discovering one thing mildly entertaining.
The place the hell do folks go to discover and discuss cool stuff? We all want different and comforting locations to hang around on the web. Locations that present the advantages of the social media and search era (group! data on the newest issues! steerage on questions each severe and foolish!) with out their exponentially nauseating record of trade-offs. Locations with intentionality, curation, and soul: like your favourite bookshop with a shelf of worker suggestions and somebody behind the counter prepared to reply your questions.
We’re constructing Polygon to be one of these spots. Emphasis on “building.” The brand new Polygon isn’t a once-in-a-decade replace; it’s a residing, ever-improving challenge. Polygon is best at present than it was yesterday, and the web site will likely be higher in 2025 than it is now.
So, how can the new Polygon make your life slightly higher?
Before everything, the web site will reward each kind of reader, from the informal visitor who visits every month to the most devoted fan who reloads our web site a number of instances a day. Probably the most commonly up to date sections (a breaking information bar at the prime, the prime tales on the proper) will change a number of instances all through every weekday, spotlighting our must-read tales and preserving you knowledgeable with out requiring you to scroll to discover what issues at that actual second. Beneath that, we’ll have themed story collections tied to the week’s massive conversations in leisure, curated recreation suggestions that dwell on the homepage itself (no click on required!), and a basket of hand-picked guides to get you into the month’s massive recreation.
Whenever you come straight to Polygon, we would like you to really feel such as you received what you got here for — or had been stunned to discover one thing even cooler.
Plus, all the things 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 may spend 1000’s of further phrases on all the superb, refined enhancements added to the web site by our product crew. They took our concepts and made them into one thing unimaginable. They’re the ones who deserve our gratitude each time visiting Polygon works precisely as it ought to. Whether or not you go to from the homepage or a hyperlink shared by a pal, you’ll get the very best expertise.
We nonetheless have work to do. We need extra methods to construct group on Polygon itself, like taking higher benefit of our commenting platform, Coral. And we’ve different massive concepts in thoughts that we’ll preserve mum for now. However we’re so joyful to have reached this level, from which Polygon’s wonderful writing, reporting, and video manufacturing has a cushty house that you simply’re welcome to go to everytime you’d like.
In any case, we’ve made this place for you.
