IGN Purchased By News Corp. · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 8, 2005 @02:26AM from the another-win-for-murdoch dept.

The Inquirer has the news that, it's official, IGN has been purchased by News Corporation. From the article: "For those not in the know, sites under the IGN network include IGN.com, GameSpy, GameSpy Arena, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, 3D Gamers, Direct2Drive, GameStats.com and a handful of sites under the Vault and Planet networks. IGN and its network will all become part of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media unit, according to a News Corporation press release. This move is part of News Corp.'s plans to increase its presence online and follows the acquisition of Intermix - which ran MySpace.com - and a college sports outlet Scout Media."

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Brought to you by... by charlesbakerharris · 2005-09-08 03:26 · Score: 3, Informative

...the folks who reviewed Master of Orion III - a game that was so poorly done that you could literally start a new game, then do nothing but hit "End Turn" about 500 times, and win the game...
They gave it 9.2 out of 10, including a subscore of 9.4 for "lasting appeal". Nice work, morons.