Chris Plante On Life After Polygon - MinnMax Interview
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In this MinnMax Interview, Ben Hanson speaks to former editor-in-chief of Polygon Chris Plante about the beloved site's sale to Valnet and how that freed him to follow his own passion: creating an independent "audio magazine" video game podcast called Post Games. We also talk a little bit about cohosting The Besties podcast with Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, and Russ Frushtick and the state of games media overall. Unlock the podcast version of MinnMax Interviews and support them directly over on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
Check out Post Games here - https://postgame.substack.com/
Support Post Games on Patreon here - https://www.patreon.com/PostGames
Follow Chris Plante on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/plante.bsky.social
Links mentioned by Plante in the discussion...
https://gamediscover.co/
https://see-saw.fun/
https://bsky.app/profile/thesaintoftous.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/nicolecarpenter.bsky.social
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - Chris Plante on editing Post Games
00:05:58 - The transition from Polygon to Post Games
00:27:29 - Creating an "audio magazine" like Post Games
00:49:17 - 1UP, Retronauts, and Chris' origins in the game industry
00:55:24 - Media he enjoys following today
01:00:20 - Processing the end of Polygon
01:13:09 - Post Games 5 years from now
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