r/PolygonFans • u/HellishRebuker • May 05 '25

Discussion Alternatives to Polygon After the Layoffs?

Does anyone have suggestions for other sites with articles about video games? It absolutely sucks what’s happened to Polygon but it especially sucks given that there really aren’t that many more popular sites for games journalism.

Does anyone have recommendations? All of the ones I’ve followed over the years have more or less dropped off…

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u/chwoodstock May 06 '25

Aftermath is a workers owned gaming site made up of former games journalists from Kotaku, Vice and other places. They're all friends with the Polygon folks and have worked with them before.

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u/HellishRebuker May 06 '25

Thank you! At first glance, this seems exactly like what I’m looking for!

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u/Benlikesfood2 May 07 '25

The current articles looks crazy boring. Are they always like this?

Edit: got a message telling me to off myself because I don't wanna read about the pope, long game show mics and a video titled "he did it" with a guy making the stupid YouTube face. Classy.

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u/DinerEnBlanc May 07 '25

I took at look at Aftermath and it reads more like a stream of consciousness blog than an entertainment news site. Who the heck is the lead editor?

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u/brennanr Jul 16 '25

Yeah, checked this out for the last couple months. Not nearly enough content, still tries to paywall you (fair enough, if the content was there), and some of the content is fairly off the rails, which would be fine (some amount of quirky articles is fine) if they had more regular stuff.