IGN Purchased By News Corp.

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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Oh great. by vertinox · 2005-09-08 02:46 · 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.

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