IGN

IGN ( Imagine Games Network ) is a multimedia news and review site that focuses heavily on video games. To the next network includes sites like IGN GameSpy, FilePlanet and 3D Gamers.

IGN offers many sub-pages, each of which has its own sub-domain. They are referred to as channel and treat computer games for various platforms. Other Channel deal with Cheats, FAQs and walkthroughs for video games, also there are channels for other areas in arts and culture.

History

IGN was founded in September 1996 as the Imagine Games Network and began with five individual pages: N64.com, PSXPower, Saturn World, Next- Generation.com and Ultra Game Players Online. The growth of these pages allowed IGN to expand its network in April 1997 to recruit additional employees and to establish an ad -focused partner network.

1998 did not touch IGN all sides as channels of the IGN brand together, but without the Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online since UGPO did not agree with the closure of the magazine and next-generation should be stopped in favor of the "Daily radar " (which long survived ).

2005 IGN had 23 million unique visitors a month, as well as 5 million registered users on all channels. IGN is among the 200 most visited websites ( according to Alexa Internet ) and the IGN forums are among the most active online forums (as of 2007).

The Company

Originally IGN for Imagine Games Network, but on February 1, 1999, IGN separated by Imagine Media to start their own business. Later Peer Schneider said, the "Vice President of Publishing ," it stands for Internet Generation Network. The company name, Afflilation Networks, was changed to Snowball.com and became a public company after it had separated from Imagine Media.

Users of the site have the option of a free registration. The further account named IGN Insiders costs 20 U.S. dollars per year and opened to high-resolution video downloads and other forums.

IGN is funded largely through advertising, on each side is at least a banner displayed.

IGN has bought several other companies, such as the Vault Network, along with the forums (then " Snowball" ) in 1999. In March 2004, IGN GameSpy Industries bought. For three months, the company IGN / GameSpy called before it was renamed IGN Entertainment. In June bought IGN Rotten Tomatoes, which made for a short time the largest independent gaming site on the Exchange. Today IGN is no longer publicly traded.

In February 2005 bought IGN 3D Gamers and June AskMen.com. On 8 September 2005, News Corporation announced that it had bought 92.3 % of the shares of IGN for a total of 650 million U.S. dollars. This makes it gained control of IGN. IGN were the Fox Interactive Media, assigned to the even sites like foxnews.com and other subsidiary of News Corporation are.

On 20 April 2009 IGN took over the online offers of the loss-making television GIGA, which the company hoped the successful leap to the German market. On 9 December 2009, the entire website of IGN has been redesigned and simultaneously introduced a new logo. In August 2010, a German subsidiary of the site was set up with its own editorial office in Cologne.

2011 started with News Corp. wide-scale restructuring of their own offers and subsidiaries. In April 2011, the long time deficient social network MySpace was repelled. In late February 2011, for the competent authority in Germany for social media offers Fox Interactive Media Germany closed, which also included the GIGA- employees. In March 2011, the Berlin-based ECONA Internet AG took over the deals of GIGA. Even the IGN network was restructured for the spin-off into an independent group of companies. Part of this measure represented the acquisition of the UGO network of the Hearst Corporation, which also includes the site 1UP counted. In February 2013, finally took over the media company Ziff Davis IGN Network of News Corp.. The new owner decided to focus on its core brands IGN and AskMen. Following the realignment of the network sites GameSpy, UGO Entertainment and 1UP were therefore closed.

Podcast

IGN offers several podcasts:

The Video Games Audio Podcast is divided into four (formerly five) different podcasts on: