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News Corp buys IGN for $650M
Falconrath writes "News Corp has just aquired the gaming network IGN for $650 million Thursday. News Corp leader Rupert Murdoch said that this aquisition was one of many in order to become a "leading and profitable Internet presence." " Also here is a games section story from this morning.
Does this mean Sean Hannity will be reviewing the next sequel to Half Life?
Volunteers across the IGN network rejoice as a few fat cats profit from their generosity.
Still, there's always that first big failure. Maybe he has in mind a MMORPG Simpsons game in mind.
Online ads?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
First MySpace and now IGN.. They're really wanting to get that Pro-Bush message out to all them young people!
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
Tell Rupert that he has accidentally paid for the site twice.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I wonder how this will affect Gamespy since they are owned by IGN. Gamespy is currently building the WiFi software for the Nintendo DS...
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Unite to form...a bunch of stupid crap nobody cares about!!
Kick in the Head
What now NEWS == GAMES is always TRUE.
Did anyone notice the article's claim that 70 million unique visitors equates to 12 billion page impressions...
That means that, on average, each of those 70 million look at more than 170 pages per month?!
OMG...some people obviously have too much time on their hands...
"... but you can love completely without complete understanding." - Norman Maclean, "A River Runs Through It"
I'm really going to enjoy reading IGN blame homosexuals for Hot Coffee... Probably inspired by Dean's yell... Removed by Bush's fervent prayers...
That or just go for broke, piss away your karma, and turn every dupe discussion into a /. frag-fest.
Option 2 then. Right.
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Rupert Murdoch likes a cup of Hot Coffee every morning. ;-)
Do you like German cars?
Am I the only one who read the title as "New Corpse buys..."?
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
"Also here is a games section story from this morning."
:P
Congratulations to TACO for figuring out how to find a dupe! Now perhaps next time we can go to the second stage of this (admittedly tough) game and actually not post the article twice???
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The question everyone is probably asking themselves right now - Is this a good or bad thing for IGN in terms of obtrusive advertisements and media content restrictions? Anyone care to provide an insight?
I find myself nowadays not visiting IGN half as much as I used to back when the guys were covering the Japanese N64 release, and all video content was free of charge or nagging flash ads. I know the internet as a whole was very different back then, but still just remembering those innocent times makes me all wet inside. Is it really financially impossible to run a site that way anymore without losing money?
ARE belong to us...
I wonder if O'Reilly can give Adam Sessler a run for his money... (Actually now that I think about it... they do look like they're related...)
(Yeah, it's a dupe reply! Wanna make somethin' out of it!!?!)
I know defending a dupe is not popular, but not all of us have the time or the inclination to spend our day surfing every single one of Slashdot's 13 or so different sections. This is especially true because many companies block access to the "games" section.
but you post it again just to identify it as another section? This is why I don't like limited categorization system and why heirarchical ontologies/taxonomies are either full of exceptions like this, or of limited use.
I have the same problem with Mambo's/Joomla's section & category mentality (effectively equivalent to slashdot's sections and topics). What is so hard about allowing a content item to exist in multiple sections?
And I'm not talking about open ended tagging systems like Flickr or del.icio.us. Defining a consistent category set not only constrains the author's or editor's choice (which should ideally be easier), but also provides a gaurantee to the viewers and feed aggrogators that tangental categories won't arise after any prefernce selection.
But back to slashdot... What exactly is the point of the topics? I can only adjust my front page filter by section, so it seems the only thing I can do with topics is search by them.
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...that will involve him saying he's never played the game, but Dick Cheney and "intelligence sources" said it was awesome.
You can go kiss my ass, you old wanker bastard.
Rupert Murdoch controls the messages of my games now? I forsee a Rupert murdoch as powerful as M$! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only "land of the free" but "land of the lawyers" who love a good old 1st amendment smackdown. Shihar 153932
DOUBLEPLUSGOOD NOWNEWS for 07SEP 5 yp 3rd Quarter:
Ministry of Truth reports NewsCorp / IGN merger as doubleplusgood opp for expand of prolefeed into compnets. Oldthinking gameplayers must now reject ownlife and bellyfeel AmSoc.
NewsCorp insists fortunate outcome: oldthinkers will learn goodthink speedwise or be sent to joycamps.
Praise BB!
Zangelding section?
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
And so is this (parent) post about that post being a dupe :p
Man is a slave because freedom is difficult, whereas slavery is easy.
Fox News!
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
News Corp is more than just Fox News Channel and the NY Post, people. They bought out 20th Century Fox (the film studio) in 1984 and started the Fox TV network the next year. FNC wasn't started for another 11 years. As for actual "news" holdings, most of that is in Australia.
I realize that finding ways to channel the spirit of Michael Moore onto Slashdot is an easy shot at karma, but really, by buying IGN, News Corp is just making a move toward a greater presence in Internet entertainment. There's not some vast right-wing conspiracy behind it.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/08/ 1428200&tid=187&tid=10
wow...I can't help but feel News Corp got ripped off...now if it were $650 Million pennies....maybe....but even thats a little high to pay for IGN. :P
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The prices paid for Myspace and IGN are, to put it mildly, insane. Batshit crazy.
When business people run off and do something this retarded, it is usually with an ulterior motive. My guess is that someone is trying to reignite the insane speculation on the Internet that caused so many regular people to lose tons of cash in the stock market in the dot com implosion.
Myspace and IGN are so easily replaceable, and hold so little in the way of solid equity, that if I was the SEC I would be looking long and hard at this.
"Hey it's Bush on the line. He needs things to be like 1997. Pay too much for a bunch of Internet companies. We'll get the word just before the bottom falls out!"
Phew, good thing IGN already sucks.
What will change when News Corporation takes over:
If you register from a country outside of the USA it will welcome you with the text "Welcome commie pinko foreigner terrorist" whenever you login.
If you don't have a blind idiotic obedience to the USA then any posts you make in the IGN forums will be monitored.
If you do make any remarks or posts about USA with any kind of critcism in the slightest, then you will be reported with one of the following occuring:
You will be asked why you hate America.
Your post will be deleted
Your account will be deleted
You'll be sent to room 101
You'll get massive amounts of advertising and "opinion" pieces but little in the way of actual content on IGN.
Not to be Captain Obvious, but then why not just post it on the front page to begin with?
Reuters - Rupert Murdoch has announced he's buying everything.
"Yes, that's right." he confirmed via a phone call. "I've talked it over with the lawyers and some dumb Texan on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington."
When asked why, Rupert responded, "Look, I'm going to own you, so I suggest your time would be better spent erecting seven hundred foot high statues in my honor, and sending me your nice little virgin daughters and iPods to sustain my unholy lusts. Oh, and would you mind beating Ted Turner to death with Jane Fonda? Just swing her by the legs and ignore the rhetoric."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Games based on Fox Entertainment media, I suspect will now be better (according to reviews).
Oh that's right, they've allways been[AD] Fair [AD] and [AD] Balanced [AD]....
M$ it's whats for diner!!!!!
by buying IGN, News Corp is just making a move toward a greater presence in Internet entertainment.
Well now that depends on how you feel about IGN I imagine!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I hope that they do something with all the flash-based advertisements on IGN. I had to stop browsing IGN on my mac mini because it caused my CPU load to jump up to 100%, even when in another browser tab (both Safari and Firefox). It was so annoying when I would leave the Mac on overnight, and I'd wake up in the morning realizing that I accidently left IGN open and my CPU had been running on full speed all night. I wish IGN would reimburse me for all the wasted electricity.
I remember back when IGN was owned by Imagine Media, makers of PC Gamer, PC Accelerator, and various other magazines. Back in 96 or so when the n64 section had the colored metal/flying/particle boxes from Mario 64, and I recall Toad for some reason....They were good. No constant Ads, a lot of content (much more then even Gamespot as I recall). But then Snowball bought them... Interface changed, and it eventually became nothing more then a source for more revenue to them judging by the massive number of ads you are now bombarded with, crappy reviews, and lack of gaming news other then around E3 time and big news. It was great back then... Now it sucks..... I hope News Corp can undo the damage that has been done.... There, I've wanted to get that off my chest for a while......
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Strange, I didn't know all the conservative folks at Fox News liked Hillary Clinton. Oh, you didn't know that she was the loudest opponent of Rockstar and was the one on the news denouncing the mod and pulling out the "think of the children" card on a game already marked 17+?
Oh, its easier to just paint all bad and evil things on GWB and the Republicans? By bad. Why not just make it easy and make all Republicans walk around with a big R on their chest? I mean, if we just "got rid" of all the Republican America would be a perfect utopia with clean air and riches for everyone. And even the trains will run on time.
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if we just "got rid" of all the Republican (sic)
the Neoconservative and religious factions are already doing a great job of that
>>>if we just "got rid" of all the Republican (sic)
>>the Neoconservative and religious factions are already doing a great job of that
They are? It seems to me that they hold the White House, The Senate, and the House of Representatives and have not lost an important election in years.
It also seems to me that they are poised to set the leadership of the Supreme Court for decades to come.
They are of course being pounded in the press every day, but all their previous victories were won under the same circumstances. It may be that vast numbers of people approve of what they are doing, but don't make so much noise about it.
If 'the people' in Amendment 2 are 'the state' then Amendments 1, 2, 4, 9, and 10 benefit the state, not you.
I feel Slashdot has defeated me, today.
But there is always tomorrow.
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I was thinking "W"s on their foreheads but "R"s on their chest will do. As far as the experiment you suggest, I'm willing to give it a go; I don't see a downside to getting rid of all Republicans...I'm willing to risk it.
Haha. Yeah look at what happened in N.O. Dems have been in control there for 40+ years and it's a hell-hole.
I'll take advancement based on merrits, thankyouverymuch.
"Thoughts are more powerful than any weapon, and I don't even let my people own guns." --Joseph Stalin
When I hear the "O'Reilly Factor" podcast, then I'll know that the apocolypse is upon us. :-D Does this mean that lies masquerading as "fair and balanced" "news" will be brought to the internet? I'm really wondering, however, what Murdoch attempts to gain in these ways. I have no experience with IGN, but MySpace is terrible software. Sure, it's convenient for me to use the social-networking aspects, but the underlying code is obviously horrible. It uses ColdFusion, so that explains some of the issues, but there are tons of issues with database design (someone over there needs to define the word "nth normal form"), user profiles, server rendering, among others, such as the deleted comments (after a comment is deleted, it still keeps the old number for the count instead of going commentCount--, so you may only have 2 comments posted, but it may list more than that). I think a few trained monkeys could do a better job than this. This leads me to beleive that they don't have any intention of "producing a high-quality internet service" or anything like that. They may use it as a springboard for other technologies, but ultimately they want the exposure to users, especially young ones. They reallize that people are more and more getting their news online, and they want to let people know that they are providing their "news" and other shows (possibly) on the net. Not a bad business move.
Now there will be those who may take offense to my speaking against Fox News and its associates. To let you know, I am not a die-hard liberal nor do I hold liberal views (although no one should be ashamed to be liberal). I am against most, if not all, of the major media outlets. In light of current events, one can obviously consider the irrelevance of stories presented on the news. Meaningful information getting the scope of the damage and of the human crises would be very engaging, but hearing Kanye West say that "George Bush doesn't like black people" is just stupid. What the fuck does race have to do with anyway? Condy, arguably the top cabinet member, is black. Colin Powell is black. Back to the media rant. I prefer news that isn't so "proud" of its own abilities nor buries its errors on page 2 behind the almanac. The media is just too motivated to get sensational and irrelevant stories. Instead of saying something constructive about the damage, such as how people can help, as well as how people in the future can prepare, and possibly some of the lessons of the hurricane, they focused immediately on the large numbers of poor people left back home. There has been insufficient time to come up with any sorts of conclusions! But then again, how do stereotypes come about?
My point: the media is a collective, closed-minded organization, interested in its own vested interests and doing the most half-assed job possible. Refer to Crossfire with Jon Stewart...case closed.
"Oh, its easier to just paint all bad and evil things on GWB and the Republicans? By bad."
Just like the republitards do to hitlery clinton right? You know the women which all republitards on tv refer to as "pure evil".
"Why not just make it easy and make all Republicans walk around with a big R on their chest?"
There is no need for that. Just say you disagree with bush or think hillary is a nice person and the republican will be the guy whose head explodes or the guy swinging his fist at your face.
evil is as evil does
That totally went over your head. What the parent meant is that the Religious Right and the Neocons have eaten the Republican Party alive. Before it was about less taxes, fiscal responsibility, and and high military DEVELOPMENT. Now the party is about spending as much as the Chinese will loan us, ending radical Islam, and high military DEPLOYMENT.
It used to be simple: the Democrats were ignorant about economics and got that whole part of their platform from decades old disputed economic theory, and the Republicans were ignorant about social issues (there is a reason that stuff is called "The Liberal Arts") and got that whole part of the platform from the Bible to make it easy. It worked well- each hammered on what they cared about the most.
Problem is a new wave of Republicanism came around with tons of people that were ignorant about economics as well (and liked to be) but LOVED the party's stance on social issues, and now its more important for the Republican Party to stomp out sects of Islam and rally against gays (yet doing nothing to stop gay marriage with an Amendment the times it comes up for vote in the congress they control). And the real Republicans-very smart people like Newt Gingrich- were kicked out of the party because he insulted this new wave of Tom Delay followers with his intellegence. Luckilly he fixed the budget for the few years he was able to do things (and now Bill takes credit for that....)
Now real Republicans like myself are powerless- stuck with the Libertarian Party. Our best hope is that the Democratic Party will implode on itself (looking that way) and appoint moderates that actually care more about the economy (Democrats are finally talking about a balanced budget for the first time in a long time). Till then we have to watch Bush spend borrowed money like Paris Hilton in a shopping mall. Yet you might never see this, because insulting every political party but the Greens is a sure way to be modded down.
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Wait till the day when slashdot will be owned by Fox!
Last time I checked, political parties didn't cause natural disasters.
Although you could blame it on their unwillingness to fix the levees, I'm pretty sure the same thing would have happened no matter what political orientation NO was.
Eventually all political movements overreach and the pendulum swings back. I'm not so sure why everyone gets so excited about the Chinese loaning us back all the money we spend on products from them. Eventually they will hit the same wall Japan did 15 years ago (and is now only beginning to recover from). Their corporations have the same problems that our consumers do (borrowing money they can't afford to purchase things they cannot pay for. Since it appears they are taking a similar path with their banking system, I would suspect that eventually the credit bubble going on there will end with similar results (deflation and a rapid decline in asset values). Until then you might as well enjoy the effects of the bubble. Just don't be the last one standing when the music stops.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Which one?
This one we're reading now News Corp buys IGN for $650Mor this one IGN Purchased By News Corp posted 6 hours earlier?
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
now that they are owned by NewsCorp, they will actually be behind the right-wing conspiracy, not the other way around, thank you.
>>> the real Republicans-very smart people like Newt Gingrich- were kicked out of the party because he insulted this new wave of Tom Delay followers with his intellegence
I thought Newt was shot down by liberals rather than NeoCons. He was prosecuted for having dared to finance the teaching of American History with tax deductible contributions as I recall.
Am I wrong?
>>> That totally went over your head. What the parent meant is that the Religious Right and the Neocons have eaten the Republican Party alive
I get your drift, the 'Republicans' of old are going away in spirit even as the party rolls on to victory. I don't really make much of it though because neither the Republican nor the Democratic party has an actual set of defining principles.
At any period in time they are an evolving mass of competing agendas, and to some extent they must be, in order to appeal to a wide enough audience to win nationwide elections.
So the previous blue-blood 'Republicans' could just as easily have said the party had gone away when the 'lower spending and smaller government' types took over the party the last time it went through a major shift.
If 'the people' in Amendment 2 are 'the state' then Amendments 1, 2, 4, 9, and 10 benefit the state, not you.