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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?
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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.
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Unite to form...a bunch of stupid crap nobody cares about!!
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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...
"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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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.
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.
BrianGet 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.
You mean Fox now pwns my DS?
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