Polygon’s new owner says it will ‘do what’s right for Polygon’

ribbedand Drilling The former brother site dedicated to games and entertainment coverage, now owned by Valnet, a company that owns more than 27 different brands covering games, entertainment, sports, travel and more. The transition is, let’s say, continuous: A day after the acquisition, the site still said it was the Vox Media feature, and the site continued to cover somewhat without interruption.

But Valnet has already gained ribbedTo learn more about the deal, and why the company acquired it, and the future of the site, got the phone with the head of the Valnet Mercements and acquisitions, Rony Arzoumanian.

Polygon is a “TRIPLE-A Games” brand that Valnet had “great interest” for “some time”. The Valnet Games also includes Playerand Thegamerand Fextralifeand DualShockersand The militants playerAnd OpenCritic. Arzomianian said that the company is “bullish” to cover the games.

Valnet started ribbed Deal, Arzoumanian said the talks started “a few months ago.” He refused to share the terms of the deal.

To move forward, Valnet wants to make sure of this ribbed Arzoyan said he had a “deepest” game coverage. He refused to share specific coverage forecasts, but he said that Valnet “would do what is true ribbed“This is” thinking ribbed He has a lot of capabilities and can be much more. ”

About 10 existing ribbed Arzoyan said that the employees move to the new owner of the site. Matt Batch, which was before Mud Executive editor, he chairs things at the present time. Valnet also “rebuilds” the team, invests in its operations, and ensures that it builds ribbed “During the five years to the next ten years,” according to Arzoyan.

Valnet wants to recruit “Triple-A” book and editors ribbedArzuanian said. When I asked about the balance that might have full -time appointments and contractors, Arzoanian was postponed from the details, but he said, “We’ll do it correctly.” Aszoumanian is postponed if it is ribbed Another editor -in -chief will be rented, saying that at the present time, the focus is on ensuring continuity after the deal is closed.

The sale led to most Mud Employees leave or be demobilized, including former Editor -in -Chief Chris Blant. Chris Grant, publisher of the Fox Media Group from freedom In the past ribbed“Valnet literally refused to meet me or answer one question for me during this process,” he said. (Everything was added to what turned into a brutal day for the game’s journalism, which also included Fandom changes news to Giant bomb))

I asked Arzoumanian about the Grant function, and I read it as part of the sentence that I conveyed above and asked her if this was true. Arzoumanian said that Valnet “often dealt with” Jim BankFf, CEO of Vox Media, and that “I am not in a position that allows him to answer it, unfortunately.”

Valnet plans to keep it Mud Arzoyan said that the archives are available, and this means that we will not see a repetition of the disappearance in Thanos-SNAP from Gamestop Game laboratory archives. ((Game laboratoryFortunately, come back now) ribbedAnd that was an anxious trend in other leaflets, Arzmanian said, “Not at all.”

I also asked if Valnet is wider, making changes in response to a recent report on Valnet from ThewrapAnd that included a claim from one of the former shareholders on the working conditions “almost the Blues level” in the Vallette Publication. Arzoumanian referred to the press statement of Valent Thewrap.

A year from now, Arzoumanian said he did not expect things to be different. Valnet wants to keep the course and continue to invest in the brand. Besides Valnet operations, the company has been postponed ribbed To switch to recorded reviews.