Joystiq

*Joystiq*
Type of site	Computer and video game blog
Successor(s)	Engadget Gaming; Massively Overpowered; Polygon
Country of origin	United States
Owner	Weblogs, Inc.
Editors	Ben Zackheim (2004-05); Vladimir Cole (2005-07); Chris Grant (2007-12); Ludwig Kietzmann (2012-15);
URL	joystiq.com
Launched	June 16, 2004
Current status	Shut down on February 3, 2015

Joystiq was a video gaming blog which was part of the Weblogs, Inc. family later owned by AOL. It was active from 2004 to 2015, acting as the primary video game blog for the group, and operating alongside Engadget and sister blogs such as Massively.^[1]^[2]^[3] From 2007 it hosted The Joystiq Podcast, which was hosted by editor-in-chief Chris Grant, reviews editor Justin McElroy and Ludwig Kietzmann. The website's staff also included Justin's brother Griffin McElroy as weekend editor. The original podcast was discontinued in 2011, but similar shows continued for the remainder of the site's lifetime in various formats.

Grant and the McElroy brothers left the site in 2012 to found the gaming website Polygon, with Kietzmann taking over as editor-in-chief. The site's readership declined through the following years, and Joystiq was shut down by AOL on February 3, 2015. The web address today redirects to Engadget Gaming, which hosts much of the site's old content.^[4] Joystiq's Massively team branched off during the closure and launched Massively Overpowered.

^ "Game trailers prompt pixel wars". BBC News. July 17, 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
^ Vargas, Jose (May 14, 2006). "What Press Pass? At E3, a Convergence of Card-Carrying Bloggers". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
^ Terdiman, Daniel (November 1, 2005). "Xbox 360 game marketing gone wild". CNET. CNET Networks. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
^ "Yahoo and AOL are part of Verizon's new 'Oath' brand (updated)". Engadget. 3 April 2017.

[1] "Game trailers prompt pixel wars". BBC News. July 17, 2007. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2008-02-04.

[2] Vargas, Jose (May 14, 2006). "What Press Pass? At E3, a Convergence of Card-Carrying Bloggers". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2008-02-04.

[3] Terdiman, Daniel (November 1, 2005). "Xbox 360 game marketing gone wild". CNET. CNET Networks. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2008-02-04.

[4] "Yahoo and AOL are part of Verizon's new 'Oath' brand (updated)". Engadget. 3 April 2017.

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