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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. Re:Dupe by That's+Unpossible! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My subscription just ran out, and I won't be renewing it until some editorial changes are made.

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  2. CmdrTaco doesn't think it's important by MondoMor · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    because Slashdot is a fun irreverant, loose, informal, blah blah blah site.

    So he basically admits that he just doesn't care. At all. As long as he's happy, Slashdot will be a giant turd.

    A giant turd that routinely wipes out servers and costs innocent people thousands in bandwidth each year. Rob is like a four-year-old at the controls of a tractor - blissfully unaware of the chaos he's creating and giggling like an idiot the whole time.

    1. Re:CmdrTaco doesn't think it's important by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A giant turd that routinely wipes out servers and costs innocent people thousands in bandwidth each year. Rob is like a four-year-old at the controls of a tractor - blissfully unaware of the chaos he's creating and giggling like an idiot the whole time.

      Pure genius. Looking at that -1, you've obviously upset an editor.

  3. Re:Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So many dupes yet they decline decent news stories till BoingBoing carries it, then they pick it up. Tsk, tsk.

  4. So you know it is a dupe... by Anm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    Anm

  5. Re:Odd Dupe by WilliamSChips · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Zangelding section?

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  6. LOL GOATSE WARNING LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol goatse link lol

  7. Re:Ach, meine Augen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lol. what?

  8. IGN is cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like IGN. My first e-mail address was an ign email address.