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

Polygon, The Verge's erstwhile sister tract dedicated to covering gaming and entertainment, is present owned by Valnet, a institution that owns much than 27 antithetic brands covering gaming, entertainment, sports, travel, and more. The modulation is, let's say, ongoing: a time aft the acquisition, the tract inactive said it was a Vox Media property, and the site's sum continued much oregon little uninterrupted.

But Valnet has so acquired Polygon, truthful to larn much astir the deal, wherefore the institution acquired it, and the aboriginal of the site, I got connected the telephone with Valnet's caput of mergers and acquisitions, Rony Arzoumanian.

Polygon is simply a "triple-A gaming brand" that Valnet has been of "high interest" for "some time," Arzoumanian said. Valnet's gaming portfolio besides includes GameRant, TheGamer, Fextralife, DualShockers, Hardcore Gamer, and OpenCritic. Arzoumanian said the institution is "bullish" connected gaming coverage.

Valnet initiated the Polygon deal, and Arzoumanian said the conversations started a "few months ago." He declined to stock the presumption of the deal.

Going forward, Valnet wants to guarantee that Polygon has the "deepest" covera …

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