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GameSpy And IGN To Merge

Posted by simoniker on from the eye-gee-spy dept.

Bagels writes "'I had a big company, and he had a big company, and now we have a very big company.' This very appropriate Simpsons quote begins IGN's announcement regarding its imminent merger with GameSpy Industries, their former rival. GameSpy has its own announcement about this, as well. The official press release claims the companies' two websites will remain separate entities, and those websites will retain their original feel; the merger is mainly to pool the financial (and likely informational) resources of the two companies. The merger will be completed in the first half of 2004 - SpyGN, anyone?"

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  1. Similar topic in Australia this week... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Two rival (and by rival, I mean there is deepseeded hatrded between the two) talkback radio stations announced a planned part-merger earlier this week in Australia. The plan was to merge the news rooms and some infrastructure.

    The State Government and the radio hosts for those stations complained, and by Thursday morning the deal had been called off.

    Not like anyone will really care about a game industry news site merge though - all news/review sites are biased and give no scores lower than 7 out of 10 anyway. Carbon copies of one another....

    Bring back Daily Radar, I say. There was some enjoyable reading entertainment.

  2. Re:Ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's why I have a yearly subscription. Fast Downloads, Free Maxim magazine subscription, Free PC copy of Splinter cell!!!

  3. Re:Ads by Babbster · · Score: 3, Informative
    Forgive me for stating what should be obvious (and perhaps veering a bit offtopic), but wouldn't it be better to use Mozilla/Firebird rather than giving up on sites that might have content you want to access? I visit Gamespy once a day (mainly to remind myself of new games that I might otherwise forget) and with Firebird I don't get annoying ads - in other words, there are still ads but only the static, banner-types.

    Come to think of it, maybe this is why I get a bit confused when people talk about Gamespy in ways that make it sound like the site is a cesspool, since using Firebird means I don't even see the in-between-pages ads.

  4. Re:Where's the benefit to us? by Captain+Beefheart · · Score: 2, Informative
    "We go from a state of having two independent sources to having only one."

    From the press release: "Both brands will remain separate entities."

  5. Oh and as for ad's by xQuarkDS9x · · Score: 2, Informative

    As for ad's on Gamespy and IGN which can be bloody annoying as heck, that is what proxy filtering is for. Setup something like Proxomitron and JD5000 Filters for Proxomitron and you can kiss all those flash and regular ad's goodbye and actually READ content on the Gamespy/IGN sites without being bombarded by ad's.

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  6. A Gamespy Response by Doodleman3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dave "Fargo" Kosak one of the founders of Gamespy talks about this merger in his weekly coulum called PlanetFargo.

    http://www.gamespy.com/fargo/december03/merger/

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