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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. Pulling a Hat out of a Rabbit. by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Well, becoming a megamedia empire didn't work for AOL/Time-Warner, but Ruper Murdoch, against many wagers in the past has made things work, even stealing tired old NFL football from CBS and kicking some life back into it when pundits said it was doomed to failure.

    Still, there's always that first big failure. Maybe he has in mind a MMORPG Simpsons game in mind.

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  2. Game Spy? by GweeDo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  3. Re:Young people by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know there's some trollishness (and probably some sarcasm) to your post, but I gotta say, the movement is VERY, VERY happy with all the hate directed at Bush.

    Bush is a lighning rod on the roof of the house of Neocon.

    Once Bush is gone, they can put someone else in place to run for POTUS, and we'll not have solved a darn thing.

    /Tinfoil hat securely on.

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  4. wow... by devaldez · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...

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  5. Re:Fox News of video games by Falconrath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Uhh, dude, IGN would never blame Hot Coffee on gay people... They'd blame it on the abortionists and the premarital sex people!