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News Corp buys IGN for $650M

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-a-lot-of-psps dept.

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.

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  1. Yes it's Duped! by FlameTroll · · Score: 0, Informative
    But why, oh why, after the first 2 dozen comments point it out, does everyone continue to harp on it? Dupes happen. Don't read it. Move on.

    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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  2. Hey Rupert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    You can go kiss my ass, you old wanker bastard.

  3. From the same people that brought you by fsterman · · Score: 1, Informative

    Fox News!

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  4. Re:IGN kills my Mac by a1ok · · Score: 3, Informative

    For FireFox, search for FlashBlock - it replaces Flash ads with an icon that you can click to actually start the flash. Quite nice imho, I definitely appreciate it the few times I visit sites loaded with Flash. Though, I don't know if it works on Macs - but since it should be in xul I *suppose* it will.

  5. Re:wow... by Josh+Triplett · · Score: 4, Informative

    Get the Anti-Pagination extension for Firefox, right-click on the Next link, choose Anti-Pagination->All, and scroll through the complete content without clicking another link.

  6. If anyone wants a non-corp game news outlet... by islandrain · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://gamesarefun.com/

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  7. Re:$650 Mil for IGN.... by tokengeekgrrl · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have to concur since I used to work for IGN, back in 1997 and left a year later. I'm amazed I lasted a year there now that I think of it. There were, and maybe still are, alot of great people who worked there but the managmenet was incompetent. Absolutely no clue about application development at all. Development, test and production were all on one server.

    The guy who was my manager was an inexperienced, technically incompetent, egotistical, petty, tyrant. No one could stand him or understand how on earth he was promoted. I remember when I first started there and someone told me rife with sarcasm, you know what happens when [name of my former IGN manager] screws up? He gets a new car! You know what happens if he does it again? He gets a free vacation! He convinced the CEO to pay $50,000 for beta searching sofware because it could index images and video. I had to make it work with 5+ domains and all the domains were on SGI servers at the time and this beta software ran on Windows NT. At one point, he admitted to me that he had made a mistake and insisted that I had to make it work to cover up his error and justify the expense. On top of that, I worked minimum 14-16hr days and was paid crap, all the technical talent was paid crap. It was a nightmare.

    I did have a friend who stayed on for a while into the snowball.com days and she did tell me that, eventually, the incompetents were let go but it was long after I left.

    I do hope for the good people that still work at IGN, the merger is a positive direction for them.

    - tokengeekgrrl