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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?
Unite to form...a bunch of stupid crap nobody cares about!!
Kick in the Head
"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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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.
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