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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. 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.

  2. 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."

  3. 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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  4. 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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