Simone de Rochefort

Supervising Video Producer

Simone de Rochefort is a New York-based video creator, and has been writing, producing, and hosting videos for Polygon’s YouTube channel since 2016. She previously worked for the family gaming website Pixelkin. Simone finds any way she can to use video games to talk about her love for architecture, design, and classic literature. Most recently for Polygon, she directed, alongside Clayton Ashley, the documentary The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft, which will come out in 2023. Simone also co-hosts the tech podcast Rocket for Relay FM, alongside Brianna Wu and Christina Warren. She's not involved in any coverage of Brianna Wu or Giant Spacekat.

Why do Delicious in Dungeon’s kobolds look like dogs?

By Simone de Rochefort May 22

Discord wants to void your right to sue them in court — but you can opt out of the practice

By Simone de Rochefort April 20

Opinion

Sports fandom deepened my friendships and gave me the superpower of small talk

How Formula One fandom opened up a whole new world for me

By Simone de Rochefort January 8

The floating heads of Polygon Video Team members over a blue background, with text reading “The “The Game Awards” Awards.” The team members seem happy and are smiling.

The Game Awards 2023

Watch The Game Awards with us

By Simone de Rochefort December 5, 2023

A Stardew Valley character modeled after Ernest Hemingway fishes at the end of the dock. Superimposed over that image is an Animal Crossing: New Horizons character based on Simone, a white woman with brown hair. She is holding a fish.

How I learned to love Stardew Valley’s terrible fishing

By Simone de Rochefort December 1, 2023

Simone posing in front of Volcano Manor, saying “dang, you like like this?” to Rya, a hunched woman in a green dress.

How Elden Ring uses architecture to freak you out

By Simone de Rochefort October 12, 2023

Why Tears of the Kingdom’s physics are so mind-blowing

By Simone de Rochefort October 5, 2023

Polygon is hosting a 24-hour charity livestream for Foster Love

By Simone de Rochefort July 31, 2023

A composite image of a car accident in the video game JFK Reloaded. Cut-out images of JFK and Simone de Rochefort, the video’s host, are overlaid on it.

Video games keep complicating JFK’s death

By Simone de Rochefort June 23, 2023

Simone de Rochefort, a brunette white woman in a black t-shirt, points at the original 1925 cover of The Great Gatsby.

These developers want you to steal The Great Gatsby

By Simone de Rochefort March 31, 2023