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

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

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  1. MuptonBossman

    Friendly reminder that consolidation like this is bad for the industry… So many people are going to lose their jobs and there will now be even less places to work if you want to get into the video game journalism industry.

  2. CuddleCores

    Well, it’s not journalism anymore if everything is from the same company…

  4. EtheusRook

    Damn, the games consolidate. The critics consolidate.

    We’re consolidating next, somehow. Is your body ready?

  5. saxmanusmc

    Is this supposed to make IGN better? They have been garbage tier for a long time, as has almost all “gaming journalism” and their “journalists”.

    We need a full reset in the field.

  6. JillValentine69X

    Yeah this isn’t surprising. This has been a rampant trend in the media industry. Well just less websites to trust.

  7. HadesWTF

    I wonder how many of these will close in the next 3-5 years.

  8. QuantityExcellent338

    Has anything good ever come out of an aquisition

  9. Lewdiss

    This just made is so much easier to dismiss games journalism as a whole I guess. 

  10. OriginalCharming3146

    Gotta love the medias exclusion from anti trust laws.

  11. FrostyMagazine9918

    Basically every other game journalism website of note is now property of IGN

    There goes tons of actually decent game coverage quality.

  12. sacred_ace

    Didn’t they just lay a bunch of staff off?

  13. hippopotamusquartet

    Well this fucking sucks. RIP in advance.

  14. nakabra

    This pretty much gives them Digital Foundry if I’m not mistaken.
    It’s a consolidating market. I didn’t know IGN had the capital for such move.

  15. ArcherInPosition

    Damn I didn’t know IGN owned HowLongToBeat

  16. ObscuraArt

    7/10, too much “journalism” under one parent company.

    I mean for the game publishers this rocks. They only have to make a launch marketing deal with one company and reap the favorable coverage over multiple outlets. I believe that’s what the suits call a Win/Win. I mean, if said company has a 7 to 8 figure marketing deal, how deep are you going to allow your editors to talk about their predatory monetization… really?

    Think of it as expensive outsourcing PR over multiple channels for the publishers.

  17. PDxFresh

    Well, I’m glad we’re going to get a diverse set of views about video game news now…

  19. Fieryhotsauce

    Reed Pop have been looking for a buyer for Gamer Network for some time. Web traffic is dropping as Gen Z consume everything via TikTik or YouTube, people hate seeing the ads that fund these sites, then act shocked when these businesses find themselves in financial trouble. Likely got sold for pennies compared to what it would’ve been valued at 5 years ago.

  21. serny

    Games Journalism is now like MMA journalism, utterly pathetic

  22. afaylenesky

    now that youre all here, which site is the most real journalism

  25. Flimsy-Jello5534

    God imagine working kinda but not really all that hard just to put “gaming journalist” at the top of your resume.

  28. d1ckj0nes

    Luddite here but isnt AI starting to decimate this industry?

  29. 2Pro4U2

    I remember when Gamespy got bought by them. Site produced new content for a ~year, then simply fell under the IGN brand. Each of these sites will likely do the same, over time.

  30. RockFox2000

    Man, I JUST started getting physical Game Informer issues again too

  31. agentmulder69

    I get all my gaming news from the jeff gerstmann show now. I’ve come to hate game news sites with all their “top 10 things you need to know before playing”, “what we’re playing this weekend” and other fluff pieces. I’ll use IGN video reviews just to read all the funny 7 bashing comments and Really makes you feel like batman etc

  32. jpcorner

    Disclosures are really important, and this article needs one at the top, not buried underneath the actual article.

    **GamesIndustry.biz is owned by Gamer Network Limited, a ReedPop company and subsidiary of Reed Exhibitions Limited.**

  33. Better_Ice3089

    Not surprising TBH. Across traditional media the only response they have to the market dying is to rely on larger and larger mergers.

  36. IcePopsicleDragon

    IGN was posting articles on how bad Xbox consolidation was and they do this…

  37. Greenfire32

    you can’t spell ignorance without ign

  39. novasolid64

    When I want to buy a game I just read the reviews on Xbox they’re funny and normally dead on

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