MinnMax Interview - Chris Plante On Life After Polygon
Added 2025-06-30 16:15:01 +0000 UTC
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.
Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/gIK3O1rZUfo
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://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
Comments
This hasn't shown up on my podcast feed yet but I'm looking forward to listening to it.
Trevor Lewis
2025-07-01 12:30:23 +0000 UTC
