The Roundup: The Circle Speaks

By Harry Rabinowitz Celebrations all around to you, your family and friends! With plenty of Yuletide carols and Hanukkah songs being sung, we wanted to bring the best and brightest from our esteemed Circle members! Polygon’s Besties, Griffin McElroy, Russ Frushtick, Chris Plante, and Justin McElroy, reunite for one last podcast. This time they talk…

Book Week: Inside The Frenzy of Game Journalism

by Harold Goldberg Recently, Polygon’s Colin F. Campbell wrote Piranha Frenzy, a full-length novel that’s a labor or love. Within this taut fiction about what’s it’s like to be a videogame journalist, Campbell offers a motley mix of characters. There’s an older guy/mentor who raises his eyebrows at youthful idiocy tempered with younger folks with…

Polygon’s Samit Sakar: Madden Exhibit Curator

It’s a rarity that one of our members is asked to curate a museum exhibit. But that’s just what’s happened with Polygon’s Samit Sarkar. He curated and penned the excellent Madden exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. There to talk about the show, and about Madden’s 25 year history, were NFL…

Tuesday! Brooklyn Barcade Event, 7/30/13, 7 p.m.

It’s Saturday morning. Outside, the sun over the river is like Kanye’s finest gold. But I’m distracted, looking forward to Tuesday night. I’m looking forward to Tuesday night because we all get together, a community of proud nerds because honorary member Daniel Radosh of the Daily Show is intelligent and funny and droll because former Rockstar…

The Best: Journalism Panels at PAX East

by Jill Scharr We’re big fans of Penny Arcade’s PAX conventions–they’re known for being friendly, open and inclusive, with panels on diverse topics, everything from sexuality to tabletop games to games journalism.  This year, the games journalism panels themselves covered a range of topics, from freelancing to breaking into IGN. Here’s a rundown of the…

First Take: Wii U Impressions

Should the Wii U have been given a bad rap for seeming too complex? Or should Nintendo’s spin doctors get the blame? Or should journalists themselves be held accountable? by Harold Goldberg Yesterday at the Polygon launch party in Tribeca, two threads of conversation manifested themselves throughout the night. The first surrounded the seemingly anthropomorphic…

Our First Community Event Is 7/31/12!

July 31 at 7 p.m., a night that will live in infamy. Or famy, even. We hope you will join your favorite videogame writers for all things games at Brooklyn’s Barcade next Tuesday night. The Barcade is located at 388 Union Avenue. We’ll be there for our first community event for at least three hours.…