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Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet

Gaming news site Polygon gutted by massive layoffs amid sale to Valnet


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Polygon was based in 2012 when Vox Media spent important cash to poach prime journalists from fashionable gaming blogs like Kotaku, Joystiq, and The Escapist. After initially publishing because the Gaming part of Vox.com for a couple of months, the Polygon area launched alongside a sequence of flashy movies hyping up the employees’s lofty targets for online game journalism.

Within the years since, Polygon has grow to be a revered supply for information and views on the gaming and leisure industries—one which Ars Technica has cited ceaselessly throughout my tenure as senior gaming editor.

“Simply utterly sickened by this information,” Polygon cofounder Brian Crecente shared on Bluesky. “Largely for these so instantly and deeply impacted, but in addition for the dwindling variety of publications severely masking video video games.”

New Polygon proprietor Valnet publishes dozens of Web content material manufacturers, which collectively have over 260 million web page views. However the writer, based by Pornhub co-founder Hassan Youssef, has earned one thing of a repute over time for exploitative work circumstances and quick-churn, clickbait content material. One contributor to Valnet-owned Collider informed The Wrap final yr that the location runs as “a content material mill, borderline like nearly sweatshop-level,” with writers “continually being pushed to write down extra, to do it faster.”

“We’re proud to have constructed Polygon into the gaming authority for each consultants and informal followers alike, a publication that has knowledgeable and delighted tens of hundreds of thousands of gaming fanatics since its founding at Vox Media greater than a decade in the past,” Vox Media co-founder, chair, and CEO Jim Bankoff stated in an announcement.

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