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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...
Unstable Apps: Our Android Apps Don't Suck
Unite to form...a bunch of stupid crap nobody cares about!!
Kick in the Head
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...
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
We may experience some slight turbulence and then...explode. -Capt. Mal Reynolds
Oh that's right, they've allways been[AD] Fair [AD] and [AD] Balanced [AD]....
M$ it's whats for diner!!!!!
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.
BrianFor 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.
http://gamesarefun.com/
Peace out, homies.
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
No, it's that they specifically manipulate news to press ahead the _far_ right wing agenda. They spin and blatently lie. We shouldn't be covering anyone's ass for Katrina, let alone blindly defending the president, saying that the people are better off being "evacuees," we are doing too much for them, or using it to press issues like allowing the christian church back into schools. And this is just the latest major issue.
Not that I don't mind crazy people who think God talks to them (i.e. Pat Robertson) being treated as respected commentators, I do, "[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."- Pat Robertson. I don't mind the extreme right having their views represented, but only the far right and having total crazies like Pat without any other representation from the middle ground people like me or the left is not okay for a news station.
BTW, did you watch the show? I understand the term "liberal media" but please understand that it is liberal subconsiously. They try and have both sides equally represent themselves. Whereas fox stuffs only with republicans vs conservative or weak democrats. Nor do most other networks violate many of the other values of good journalism.
Try geting your news source from several fronts, right and left and some middle. I think the Christian Science Monitor is probably the last best well balenced international news paper.
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?