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IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more

IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.

www.gamesindustry.biz

IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I’m sure this media consolidation will result in more value and variety for the readers & viewers.

 

[nush]

Now we wait for the redundancies.

 

[lh032]

exclusive bs journalism

 

[Dacvak]

I really hate acquisitions like this. It almost never turns out well for anyone. Oh well.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Telltale sign of a dying industry, buying up all that remains

IGN won

 

[graywolf323]

I honestly didn’t realize IGN owned HowLongToBeat before this

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

So basically they are assembling the avengers against Xbox

 

[DAHGAMING]

Ign about to shut these mother fuckers down.

 

[DanielG165]

Oh goodness. I know IGN is far and away the largest publication in the industry, but I don’t see anything positive about this acquisition. The video game industry is in a really weird, bloated, and upside down state right now.

 

[Elios83]

Horrible. A single master controlling information is never a good sign.
Gaming journalism is already a joke.

 

[Fake]

What is bad is about to become even worst.

Hope Digital Foundry gets out of Eurogamer.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

So IGN has almost everything media-related to videogames lmao

 

[NickFire]

Every dev and pub should be asking themselves how many of the acquired rags failed to review Hogwarts at launch?

Then ask themselves if they really want to keep pandering to the ideology that wanted to boycott Hogwarts!

 

[NuclearDiarrhea]

Journo's cheering on consolidation now getting laid off due to consolidation. Tragic, yet hilarious.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Every dev and pub should be asking themselves how many of the acquired rags failed to review Hogwarts at launch?

Then ask themselves if they really want to keep pandering to the ideology that wanted to boycott Hogwarts!

Yeah the legacy gaming media has proven their total irrelevance. It’s amazing they even lasted this long.

Some people better start learning to code.

 

[LordCBH]

Come on layoffs!

 

[Superposition]

Just kick that dumb grubb.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[Xion_Stellar]

More industry consolidation this sure won't backfire in the future /s

 

[Loomy]

A lot of people are about to lose their jobs.

 

[Mr Moose]

DF / NXG crossover.

 

[bender]

IGN to Digital Foundry and NXGamer:

 

[Xion_Stellar]

A lot of people are about to lose their jobs.

Already happening:

View: https://x.com/ethangach/status/1792950149532037581

 

[SEGAvangelist]

DF / NXG crossover.

Already happening:

View: https://x.com/ethangach/status/1792950149532037581

Are they really irreplaceable?

 

[GymWolf]

Nice, better to reunite all the trash in one place.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

2nd sentence in the article....

"As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation."

So more layoffs incoming

 

[Bernoulli]

Digital Foundry staff replaced by NXG

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

2nd sentence in the article....

"As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation."

So more layoffs incoming

Nah it could be they’ll keep some redundant people around as backups in case the primary dies. Like how the space shuttle had 4 flight computers.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Nice, better to reunite all the trash in one place.

Had the same thought

 

[Draugoth]

Gamesindustry as well?

Well, they are gone

 

[ManaByte]

That little shit blocked anyone on Twitter who mocked him for that and now he writes games for EA.

 

[SirTerry-T]

IGN to Digital Foundry and NXGamer:

 

[Catphish]

Ign about to shut these mother fuckers down.

 

[darrylgorn]

The 'free' market.

 

[BoxFresh123]

I’m sure this media consolidation will result in more value and variety for the readers & viewers.

 

[AV]

 

[Draugoth]

IGN last week: "Our hearts go out to the thousand of people who have lost their jobs because of the studio that have had layoffs across the industry"

Also IGN:

 

[SidViscous]

I was employee number four at Eurogamer back when we just ran LAN events, they already "sold out" and the founders left about 8 years ago in the traditional sense, so this is just it being passed around to someone else.

To me the site died when they ditched the forums because they didn't want to migrate it from PHP5, but I do hope this doesn't impact digital foundry too much. Ideally John would take his retro show solo and start a Patreon or something.

 

[Denton]

Digital Foundry staff replaced by NXG

DF is independent, no? They are hosted at EG but are not part of them.

Anyway. Eurogamer is total trash, hopefully IGN kills it. And then itself.

 

[ChiefDada]

Digital Foundry staff replaced by NXG

One can hope.

 

[Xion_Stellar]

Are they really irreplaceable?

Well if they want to be "Meta" and make some profit out of this IGN could make an article called "The Internet reacts to IGN acquiring other gaming outlets" and to show they have no shame they would also include quotes of the very people they fired.

 

[winjer]

Layoffs incoming.

 

[crackajack]

Same happens everywhere: In Germany pretty much all remaining relevant websites are afaik run by Marquard (swiss) or Webedia (french). Must have been already maybe 10 years where the current status was reached.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I really hate acquisitions like this. It almost never turns out well for anyone. Oh well.

TBH all gaming media is thrash tier.

 

[Puscifer]

Dead internet theory in action.


EviLore , seriously, thanks for keeping this place open even if I disagree with some of the stuff people say it's still great to see open dialog that isn't fed and moderated through an algorithm.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Horrible. A single master controlling information is never a good sign.
Gaming journalism is already a joke.

Alternative media is the new norm, stuff like Last Stand

The legacy stuff is just going to continue dying

 

[ByWatterson]

I’m sure this media consolidation will result in more value and variety for the readers & viewers.

They'll finally get to write the articles they always wanted to!

 

[MrRibeye]

Don't care, anything of relevance is on GAF.