Welcome to the next era of Polygon! We made it for you.

Welcome to the new Polygon. We are glad you are here.

By now you’ve seen the fresh look. But if you look around, you’ll find that the Polygon experience feels different. With this new design, our website, the home of 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 likes video games and the entertainment subcultures they share a job with.” SFF. Horror. Animation. If you like games, you probably share some of these interests — maybe all of them. We like 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 meticulously reporting on the world around them. And it’s been a divining rod, pointing us to stories in and around these topics that are more than the disposable “content” clogging the internet. We’ve helped millions of people better enjoy the things they love. Our journalism has brought transparency and accountability to a notoriously opaque games 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 good causes and fostered an inclusive community. And we’ve elevated media that is too often ignored, starting with games and expanding into comics, anime, and tabletop roleplay.

But the media world is different than it was when Polygon launched in 2012. Or even a year ago.

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

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

We’re building Polygon to be one of those places. 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 it will be better in 2025 than it is today.

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 drops by every 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, top stories on the right) will change multiple times a weekday, spotlighting our must-read stories and keeping you in the know without having to scroll to find what matters at that moment. Below that, we’ll have thematic collections of stories tied to the week’s big conversations in entertainment, curated gaming recommendations featured on the homepage itself (no clicks required!), and a basket of hand-picked guides to get you into the big game of the month.

When you come straight to Polygon, we want you to feel like you got what you came for, or be surprised by something even cooler.

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

We still have work to do. We want to find more ways to build community on Polygon itself, like making better use of our commenting platform, Coral. And we have other big ideas in mind that we’re keeping under wraps for now. But we’re so happy to have reached this point, where Polygon’s excellent writing, reporting, and video production has a comfortable home that you’re welcome to visit whenever you want.

After all, we created this place for you.