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IGN Purchased By News Corp.

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. a logo is in order by phoenix42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe /. need a Rupert Murdoch logo, for every time News Corp. buys some craptacular internet company.

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  2. Adventures in Digital BS by Japong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is kind of an odd conflict of interest, seeing as Fox Interactive has a games division.

    As soon as the big media companies start buying out gaming sites, and gaming developers (I'm looking at you, Rockstar) - do you think we're still going to see all this BS reporting on the news about how "dangerous" videogames are hurting America? I somehow think there's going to be a whole lot of back-scratching going on, with games based on Fox's IP licenses getting good reviews, and games produced by Fox getting positive attention in the media. And so the circle of shit is complete.

  3. Oh great. by vertinox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another purchase and another merger... When was the last time you heard of someone selling off or splitting up a company?

    At this rate, we'll have one company that does everything by 2020.

    FoxMicrosoftWarnerGlaxol Corp Inc.

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  4. Re:Nintendo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How come? Have the two companies bashed heads over something before? (Genuine question - for all I know, they may well have).

    If not, I don't see any ethical compatibility problems. Both are big companies with a history of trying to build monopolies (and both cases, sometimes losing them through ineptitude) and draconian protection of characters/licenses they own from third party use.

  5. Re:Fox does it again by Trepalium · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given the fact there's typically a three month lead to magazine printing, it's hardly surprising that they were reviewing unfinished games. That also means, for better or worse, they have to make some assumption about the bugs they may or may not run into being fixed before release. How stupid would they look complaining about a bug that didn't exist on the shipping version?

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