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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. Volunteers Rejoice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Volunteers across the IGN network rejoice as a few fat cats profit from their generosity.

    1. Re:Volunteers Rejoice! by Seumas · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Paying farmers not to farm is good. It's a way of keeping farmlands fertile while not forcing farmers out of business.

      Aside from the assertion that we supposedly live in a capitalist, market-driven, society . . .

      A wiser person than any who have ever served in government would realize that the same could be achieved - and more - by paying farmers to farm and distributing their product to the homeless and hungry within the states and around the world.

  2. Young people by dep01 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First MySpace and now IGN.. They're really wanting to get that Pro-Bush message out to all them young people!

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  3. Re:wow... by SlashChick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "That means that, on average, each of those 70 million look at more than 170 pages per month?!"

    Not surprising, considering the typical game review on their sites looks like:

    [AD|AD|AD|AD]
    [company] has released a very cool new game called [title]. [token screenshot of box cover]
    [AD|AD|AD|AD]
    [NEXT] Page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

    Click Next and be directed to an interstitial ad, then click through 12 more pages just to find out whether the game is actually worth playing or not. I've long since given up on IGN for having much actual content on their pages.

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  4. Re:Dupe by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:So... by daniil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will Slashdot keep posting stories from Gamespy, now that Gamespy is owned by Fox?

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  6. It's a media conglomerate, folks by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  7. Strange, didn't know Fox News like Hillary Clinton by Brian_Ellenberger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    Brian