It’s here. It’s real. It briefly broke Steam. If you even casually follow video game news, you already know I’m talking about Hollow Knight: Silksong. The bug-
It was only in May--just two months ago!--that Polygon, once one of the internet's most prestigious and successful video game websites, was sold to Valnet, a
For better and, often, worse, traditional video games have calcified. If you check Steam’s top ten most-played games on any given day, you’ll likely find a lineup
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
Summer Geoff Fest is less than a month away, and you know what that means: It is once again time to turn our attention to summergamesfest.com, a URL of
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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It sure is an interesting time for games journalism, which as we’ve all learned from living in continually interesting times, is not necessarily – or even typically – a good thing.
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