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''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.〔"Polyglot is so successful, we are adding to its features due to readers demands." http://www.thegpa.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=163 Game Publisher Association website, accessed November 1, 2007〕 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.〔''Polyglot'' Volume #3 Issue #1 http://www.polymancerstudios.com/component/option,com_vfm/Itemid,55/do,download/file,PolyGlot|Volume+3|polyglot_volume3_issue1.pdf/〕 This was stated in the 53rd issue of the webzine (similar press releases have been made (in other outlets )()()) which likely means that the statement was made about the previous 52 issues combined. This equates to roughly 11,538 downloads per issue. ==Format== ''Polyglots 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 described 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). The first 12 issues of ''Polyglot'' (i.e., Volume #1 Issues #1 to #12) did not have any images in them other than the Polyglot "traditional" section logos. Starting in Volume #1 Issue #13,〔''Polyglot'' Volume #1 Issue #13 http://www.polymancerstudios.com/component/option,com_vfm/Itemid,55/do,download/file,PolyGlot|Volume+1|polyglot_volume1_issue13.pdf/〕 images of games, game company logos, and convention photographs have appeared in the newsletter. There was no "digital" section in Polyglot until Polyglot Volume #1 issue #25.〔''Polyglot'' Volume #1 Issue #25 http://www.polymancerstudios.com/component/option,com_vfm/Itemid,55/do,download/file,PolyGlot|Volume+1|polyglot_volume1_issue25.pdf/〕 The first computer game press release appeared in the previous issue〔''Polyglot'' Volume #1 Issue #24 http://www.polymancerstudios.com/component/option,com_vfm/Itemid,55/do,download/file,PolyGlot|Volume+1|polyglot_volume1_issue24.pdf/〕 alongside press releases for "traditional" games. A table of contents first appeared in Volume #1 Issue #25 as well, the first one with clickable internal hyperlinks was in Volume #2 Issue #4.〔''Polyglot'' Volume #2 Issue #4 http://www.polymancerstudios.com/component/option,com_vfm/Itemid,55/do,download/file,PolyGlot|Volume+2|polyglot_volume2_issue4.pdf/〕 Most URLs in Polyglot press releases are clickable. Many of the items that appear in the newsletter have contact information for the game company or the publicist who issued the press release. Often (but not always), the writers are attributed. As of November 1, 2007, the largest issue of Polyglot to date was Polyglot Volume #3 Issue #9〔''Polyglot'' Volume #2 Issue #19 http://www.polymancerstudios.com/component/option,com_vfm/Itemid,55/do,download/file,PolyGlot|Volume+3|polyglot_volume3_issue9.pdf/〕 at 65 pages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polyglot (webzine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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