Vox Media has offered online game specialist web site Polygon to Web model aggregator Valnet, the writer of content-churning websites together with Recreation Rant, OpenCritic, Android Police, and Comedian Guide Sources. The transfer comes alongside important layoffs for veteran journalists on the 13-year-old outlet, together with co-founder and editor-in-chief Chris Plante and Senior Author Michael McWhertor.
The sudden job cuts seem to have been fully surprising for these affected. Polygon Senior Reporter Nicole Carpenter, as an example, printed a narrative concerning the Epic vs. Apple case at 10 am Jap time this morning earlier than sharing information of her layoff lower than two hours in a while Bluesky.
“Together with nearly everybody else at Polygon, I’m now out of a job, ending over a decade at Vox Media for me,” Curation Editor Pete Volk wrote on Bluesky. “Working at Polygon was a beautiful expertise, and I am pleased with the work we did there.”
“I used to be simply considering earlier this week, ‘Man, I really like my job and I am so excited to leap into summer season blockbuster season!” Polygon Leisure Reporter Petrana Radulovic wrote on BlueSky. “And now i dont have my job…”
“Apparently I am out of a job,” Particular Initiatives Editor Matt Leone wrote on Bluesky. “I actually cannot complain an excessive amount of—Polygon was a fantastic place to work for the final decade-plus—but when anybody’s hiring, please attain out!”
Finish of an period
Polygon was based in 2012 when Vox Media spent important cash to poach high journalists from in style 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.
