Polygon is not dead, but under new owner Valnet, it has been forcefully contorted into something it wasn’t even just a few weeks ago. Websites are their people; laying
Just over a week after being "blow up" by owners Fandom, a very exciting press release has hit our inboxes this evening: the site/podcast has been sold
We live in a time when it’s not exactly uncommon to have your routine shattered by the sudden, resounding death knell of a publication that taught you your whole
Gaming site Polygon has been sold to Valnet, Kotaku first reported Thursday morning. Valnet has retained a handful of staff, with the majority of Polygon workers losing their jobs.
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The Gamurs group of video game websites, a one-time media darling, have for the past year been struggling following changes made by Google's search algorithm that have had
On Thursday, April 3, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement made Microsoft a “priority target” of its call to boycott companies it identifies as complicit in the unlawful occupation
We’ve (sadly) covered a lot of games media stories that involve writers being laid off, sites being shuffled around and sometimes even whole companies shutting down. For Inside Baseball
Back at Kotaku, our style guide contained a list of over-used or meaningless phrases that were banned from headlines and articles. My strongest memory is of “looks” making an appearance
Former Game Informer staff announced today that the site and magazine are coming back, following their abrupt closure by owner GameStop last August. The entire staff at the time of
We wrote about Valnet’s low pay rates in a previous article about how underpaid freelancers are propping up games journalism. Today, new reporting by The Wrap shines more light
If you hadn’t heard of far-right, anti-immigration priest Calvin Robinson before, he likely ended up on your radar this week when he performed a conspicuously Nazi-looking salute – which conservatives
This feels like the last week when folks in the US can say “things aren’t looking good” before Monday’s inauguration happens and we start to see how grim
