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Polyglot (webzine)

Polyglot
Screenshot of Polyglot Volume #3 Issue #12 released in August 2007 announcing the release of Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition
Type of site
Game Hobby Industry, Computer Games
Available in English
Owner Polymancer Studios, Inc.
Created by Polymancer Studios, Inc.
Commercial Yes
Launched 4 March 2005 (2005-03-04)
Current status Discontinued

Polyglot was a biweekly online newsletter about the game hobby industry that ceased publication in 2012. It contains official press releases put out by roleplaying game, board game, miniatures, card game, LARP, comic book, and computer game companies. It is published for free as a downloadable PDF. Polyglot is published by Polymancer Studios, Inc., a Canadian publisher that also prints Polymancer magazine.

It was announced on July 19, 2007, that Polyglot would include editorials and product reviews. The webzine's publisher has not previously endorsed the inclusion of original or editorial content.

In the second anniversary issue (the filename for which indicates it was placed on the company's server on March 8, 2007), the publishers of Polyglot stated that there have been over 600,000 "unique downloads" of Polyglot since March 2005. This was stated in the 53rd issue of the webzine (similar press releases have been made in other outlets[1][2]) which likely means that the statement was made about the previous 52 issues combined. This equates to roughly 11,538 downloads per issue.

Polyglot's issues were numbered in a volume/issue format that is similar to how printed magazines are numbered; that is, not sequentially. For example, the 27th issue of Polyglot was not "Polyglot issue #27" but "Polyglot Volume #2 Issue #1."

Polyglot was formatted as a US letter size PDF. It is divided into two sections, one for "traditional" games (the term the company uses to describe RPGs, card games, board games, miniatures, etc.) and one for "digital" games. Every page of Polyglot has a banner image of the top containing Polyglot's logo. There are two different logos, one for the "traditional" gaming section and one for the "digital" gaming section. The front page of each of the two sections has a slightly larger logo. The "traditional" gaming section's logo has the slogan "the language of gaming" and the digital section's logo simply says "digital section." In both sections, the logos have different colors on each page, repeated in sequence (there are 5 different colors for the "traditional" section" and 4 for the "electronic" section).


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