Welcome to the next era of Polygon, we made it for you

Welcome to the new Polygon. We’re happy to have you here.

By now, you’ve seen the fresh look. But as you poke around, you’ll discover that the experience of being on Polygon feels different. With this redesign, our website, the home to everything we create, better aligns with our editorial mission: to make your life a little better every day. 

The “you” in this case is “someone who loves video games and the entertainment sub-cultures with which they share an orbit.” SFF. Horror. Animation. If you love games, you presumably share some of these interests — maybe all of them. We love them all.

For the past decade, our mission has been to make life a little better every day, through a mix of informing and entertaining our readers, and rigorously reporting on the world around them. And it’s been a dowsing rod, pointing us toward stories in and around these topics that are more than the disposable “content” that clogs the internet. We have helped millions of people better enjoy the stuff they love. Our journalism has provided transparency and accountability to a notoriously opaque gaming industry. Our curation and criticism have introduced readers to their future favorite movies and TV shows. We’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charities, and we’ve fostered an inclusive community. And we’ve elevated media that’s too often dismissed, beginning with games, and expanding across comics, anime, and tabletop roleplay.

The media world, however, is different today than when Polygon launched in 2012. Or even a year ago.

You’ve seen the headlines. The government has declared Google a monopolist. The careless use of generative AI threatens to undermine the authority and livelihood of established publications. Facebook has become the internet’s elephant graveyard, and Twitter is now X. The old places we all hung out — both as writers and as readers — have either died or been overrun with so much content that you find yourself scrolling through hundreds of user-submitted posts in hopes of finding something mildly entertaining.

Where the hell do people go to find and talk about cool stuff? We all need alternative and comforting places to hang out on the internet. Places that provide the benefits of the social media and search era (community! info on the latest things! guidance on questions both serious and silly!) without their exponentially nauseating list of trade-offs. Places with intentionality, curation, and soul: like your favorite bookshop with a shelf of employee recommendations and someone behind the counter ready to answer your questions.

We’re building Polygon to be one of those spots. Emphasis on “building.” The new Polygon isn’t a once-in-a-decade update; it’s a living, ever-improving project. Polygon is better today than it was yesterday, and the site will be better in 2025 than it is now. 

So, how can the new Polygon make your life a little better?

First and foremost, the site will reward every type of reader, from the casual guest who visits each month to the most dedicated fan who reloads our site multiple times a day. The most regularly updated sections (a breaking news bar at the top, the top stories on the right) will change multiple times throughout each weekday, spotlighting our must-read stories and keeping you informed without requiring you to scroll to find what matters at that exact moment. Below that, we’ll have themed story collections tied to the week’s big conversations in entertainment, curated game recommendations that live on the homepage itself (no click required!), and a basket of hand-picked guides to get you into the month’s big game.

When you come directly to Polygon, we want you to feel like you got what you came for — or were surprised to find something even cooler. 

Plus, everything now works how you’d expect it. The layouts are cleaner, with less obtrusive ads. Pages load faster. The search box works. I could spend thousands of additional words on all the amazing, subtle improvements added to the site by our product team. They took our ideas and made them into something incredible. They’re the ones who deserve our gratitude every time visiting Polygon works exactly as it should. Whether you visit from the homepage or a link shared by a friend, you’ll get the best possible experience.

We still have work to do. We want more ways to build community on Polygon itself, like taking better advantage of our commenting platform, Coral. And we have other big ideas in mind that we will keep mum for now. But we’re so happy to have reached this point, from which Polygon’s excellent writing, reporting, and video production has a comfortable home that you’re welcome to visit whenever you’d like.

After all, we’ve made this place for you.