Polygon’s fitful birth and sudden ‘death’
May 8, 2025It took about a year for Polygon to come screaming to life back in 2012.
It took less than a day to kill it.
Perhaps it’s premature to call the time of death for the gaming site once owned by Vox Media, but even if its new owners somehow recreate the splendid thing that was Polygon, it will never be the same.
The point of this column, though, isn’t to ruminate on the death of something special in the world of games journalism, but rather to talk about its unusual, spectacular birth.
That’s in some part because while I heard rumblings over the years about the site and its inner workings, I haven’t been a part of Polygon for nearly eight years.
But I was there in those first weeks of its inception.
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