CitizenVectron Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more WWW.GAMESINDUSTRY.BIZ IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.As a result of the acq… IGN ruining even more gaming content. Quote As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation. Gamer Network's publications are GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer (including six local language editions), Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247 and Dicebreaker. The business also holds shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry and Hookshot (which operates Nintendolife, PushSquare, PureXbox and Time Extension). I think IGN now owns something like 80%+ of gaming publications? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more WWW.GAMESINDUSTRY.BIZ IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.As a result of the acq… Quote IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation. Gamer Network’s publications are GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer (including six local language editions), Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247 and Dicebreaker. The business also holds shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry and Hookshot (which operates Nintendolife, PushSquare, PureXbox and Time Extension). IGN Entertainment is the division of Ziff Davis that includes IGN, MapGenie, HowLongToBeat, and Humble Bundle. It has acquired the websites from PAX and New York Comic-Con organiser ReedPop, which initially bought the Gamer Network business in 2018. Not included in the sale are UK-based events EGX or MCM, or the digital brand Popverse, which remain with ReedPop. From Kotaku's Ethan Gach: Quote GamesIndustry.biz managing editor Brendan Sinclair has been laid off. It sounds like even more cuts might be happening across the Gamer Network of sites (Eurogamer, RPS, VG247 and others). This is absolutely devastating news. Brendan's weekly columns are irreplaceable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Is a D1P acquisition inevitable??? Kidding aside, this really sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 FCC where are you? (or is it FTC?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 From Kotaku's Ethan Gach: Quote Alice Bell, deputy editor at Rock Paper Shotgun, an invaluable source for wide ranging thoughtdul reviews of diverse games, has also been laid off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 When will they buy Gamespot? Seriously, though, this is kinda nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 I had no idea they already owned that much before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 This really, really sucks as those Eurogamer-related sites are my "go-to" ones for gaming news. I have little doubt that the EG sites were struggling to even continue operating on their own and some of them probably would've folded in due course, but consolidation into IGN? Ugggggghhhhh... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Eurogamer is one of the last sites I trusted so this is pretty devastating. Really hope DF manages to remain untouched - it sounds like Eurogamer doesn’t fully own them? They seem popular enough to withstand their own and have their own Patreon so they might be ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 1 minute ago, stepee said: Eurogamer is one of the last sites I trusted so this is pretty devastating. Really hope DF manages to remain untouched - it sounds like Eurogamer doesn’t fully own them? Eurogamer owns shares in Digital Foundry, but doesn't own a majority stake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 I think as a protest we should all leave the IGN boards and oh wait 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 Absolute hot garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 15 minutes ago, stepee said: I think as a protest we should all leave the IGN boards and oh wait Sign up there and get permabanned and come back here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 This happend because of @Commissar SFLUFAN's post in the ER thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 No, I do not like this one bit. Ziff Davis has done quite the number on games industry journalism as it stands. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 well it was a good run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eventide11 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 On 5/21/2024 at 1:14 PM, stepee said: I think as a protest we should all leave the IGN boards and oh wait Those were some good times. Until they weren't. But I'm here because of IGN so I shouldn't hate... Too much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 I hope this doesn't affect Digital Foundry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Yup - I'm still damned angry about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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