Joystiq

Also known as joystiq.com

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. 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 var

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Website.name: Joystiq
Website.logo: Joystiq.svg
Website.logo_size: 150px
Website.type: Computer and video game blog
Website.owner: Weblogs, Inc.
Website.current_status: Shut down on
Website.successor: Engadget GamingMassively OverpoweredPolygon
Website.country_of_origin: United States
Podcast.title: Super Joystiq Podcast
Podcast.host: Xav de Matos
Podcast.status: Weekly
Podcast.began: May 4, 2012
Podcast.ended: January 16, 2015
Podcast.opentheme: Gravity (Don't Let Me Go) - Jon Black
Podcast.endtheme: Red Eye - Ben Kweller
Podcast.genre: Podcast
Podcast.num_episodes: 128
Podcast.url: http://www.joystiq.com/tag/super-joystiq-podcast

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Official website: www.joystiq.com

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Commons category: Joystiq
Alexa rank: 6498303
inception: 2004-01-01
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2015-02-03
end time: 2014-00-00

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Contents

History
Origins (2004-2006)
Grant era (2007-2012)
Kietzmann era (2012-2015)
Legacy
Editors
Podcasts
''The Joystiq Podcast'' (2007-2011)
''The Joystiq Show'' (2011-2012)
''Super Joystiq Podcast'' (2012-2015)
Awards
See also
References
External links

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. Joystiq's Massively team branched off during the closure and launched Massively Overpowered.