The Press wrote:News Corporation to Acquire IGN Entertainment, Inc.
Thursday September 8, 7:00 am ET
Acquisition Includes IGN's Popular GameWeb Properties, as well as Planet Network, Rotten Tomatoes and AskMen.com
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2005--News Corporation announced today that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire IGN Entertainment, Inc, a leading community-based Internet media and services company for video games and other forms of digital entertainment, for approximately $650 million in cash. IGN and its network of sites will become part of News Corporation's Fox Interactive Media unit.
Which means... which means that Fox now controls Fileplanet! Ack noo! And and the Planet sites, and more... IGN/Gamespy inculdes a shit-ton of websites.
The exact list of purchaes is as follows IGN's major video game-related properties include IGN.com, GameSpy, GameSpy Arena, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, 3D Gamers, Direct2Drive, GameStats.com and a number of web sites within the Vault and Planet networks. IGN also owns and operates two entertainment web properties focused on movie-related content, IGN FilmForce and Rotten Tomatoes, and a male lifestyle web site, AskMen.com. In addition, it provides technology for online game play in video games.
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Why is everyone assuming that just because it was bought out by Fox means that it's going to utterly destroy the site, and that everything good shall crumble?
I mean, seriously, it makes not goddamn sense. Last I checked, Fargo's still writing editorials and making WoW comics, and FP is still giving out free demos, betas, full games, and other cool stuff.
That's the kind of stuff that makes the sites worthwhile for people to come to. I sincerely doubt that because they've been bought out by Fox that suddenly all will change and Fox Interactive games will be retconned with amazing reviews and the staff gutted.
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Hotfoot wrote:Why is everyone assuming that just because it was bought out by Fox means that it's going to utterly destroy the site, and that everything good shall crumble?
well...well...
FOX IS T3H EVILLL!!!
I mean, seriously, it makes not goddamn sense. Last I checked, Fargo's still writing editorials and making WoW comics, and FP is still giving out free demos, betas, full games, and other cool stuff.
but...but...it's now controlled by a heartless multinational corperation
That's the kind of stuff that makes the sites worthwhile for people to come to. I sincerely doubt that because they've been bought out by Fox that suddenly all will change and Fox Interactive games will be retconned with amazing reviews and the staff gutted.
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:You know, several years ago Nullsoft was purchased by AOL, but Winamp didn't suddenly disappear or suck.
I beg to differ there since after AOL aquired WINAMP the installer mysteriously increased in size by a few megs with no benfits or patch fixes and suddenly Winamp wants to modify a bunch of things it did not care about before.
But onto the Fox situation, Fargo and Co are safe for now until at least Fox starts monking with them. Hell IGN even looks like a Fox production as is.
Oh and Gamespot can go screw itself, just my feeling on the matter I hate their interface and downloading methods with a passion.
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