Timan Veteran Posted December 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2003 http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=49247122&replies=0 http://corp.ign.com/articles/444/444318p1.html <- Friend just showed me this sry if its been posted already. IGN and GameSpy Announce Merger AgreementCombination Will Create Web's Largest Network of Gaming Destination Sites SAN FRANCISCO and IRVINE, Calif. - December 4, 2003 - IGN Entertainment - home to IGN.com, the Web's largest gaming and entertainment destination for young males - and GameSpy Industries, a leading online entertainment and technology company serving game enthusiasts and game developers, today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement creating the Web's largest network of destination sites for gamers. The combination will create the Internet's largest gaming audience and its highest traffic PC and console game content network with 673 million page views per month. According to comScore NetScore data, the two networks attract more than 22 million unduplicated unique visitors per month worldwide, and they rank number one in unduplicated U.S. audience reach with both comScore Media Metrix and Nielsen//NetRatings in the gaming information category. Additionally, the combined companies service the biggest gaming information subscription base with 194,000 active paying subscribers and have registered over 26 million users. They also operate the highest volume download service with 6.1 million downloads per month and are the industry leader in online gaming tools and services. "This combination offers tremendous synergies as GameSpy and IGN have very complementary strengths," said Mark Jung, IGN's CEO. "GameSpy is the market leader with the PC game audience, game downloads and online gaming technology. IGN is the market leader with the console game audience and in community services such as message boards. Both companies have very strong subscription acquisition and retention programs." Each company's customer base should find advantages with this strategic grouping. Gaming and consumer advertisers will be able to reach the world's largest concentration of young males - predominately the key 18 - 34 year old male demographic - addressing the recent decline of male TV viewership. GameSpy's game developer clients will have expanded access to the large IGN audience for game demos and beta testing. Video game enthusiasts will benefit from the combined efforts of two leading editorial teams, who together generate an average of over 4,400 pieces of original gaming content per month. "Combining IGN and GameSpy will create value for both our audience and our clients," said Mark Surfas, founder and chairman of GameSpy. "For the gamer, this merger will provide the broadest array of information, services and content choices. For game publishers and advertisers, it creates a platform with the widest reach and the deepest set of marketing tools to target gamers and young men in general." Mr. Jung will serve the new company as CEO, and Mr. Surfas will serve as the Chief Strategy Officer and will join Mr. Jung on the Board of Directors. Because of their distinct audiences and strong loyalties, both the IGN.com and GameSpy.com brands will be retained. The companies expect to complete the merger in the first half of 2004. About IGN Entertainment IGN Entertainment, through its IGN.com? network, is the Internet's leading information and entertainment destination for teen and young adult gamers. IGN serves its audience by providing both free and subscription-based content, services and gameplay. IGN offers its business customers a full spectrum of integrated marketing solutions to reach this large Web-centric audience, including fixed placement and impression-based advertising, sponsorships, permission marketing, custom publishing, e-commerce, direct e-mail marketing and content licensing. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with sales offices in New York and Los Angeles. For more information, please visit http://www.ign.com. About GameSpy Industries GameSpy is the Web's leading destination for online information, entertainment and communities serving the enthusiast gamer worldwide. The GameSpy network includes GameSpy.com, FilePlanet.com and GameSpyArcade.com, more than 60 Planet community sites and 7,000+ hosted sites. GameSpy is also the leading provider of technology for online game play in video games and has the largest gaming information subscriber base on the Web. Founded in 1995, privately held GameSpy is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. www.gamespy.com. Sucks for Gamespot:rofl:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redestium Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Wow, cool! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted December 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2003 so does that mean that subscribers to one site will have access to content on the other site and vice versa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Interesting. I wonder what fee they are gonna wanna charge for a year subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 so does that mean that subscribers to one site will have access to content on the other site and vice versa? I'm sure there will be additional fees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trix Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 bah i think ign went down really bad and is crap now and i never liked Gamespy so well im already keepin clear from both of them ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Whats so bad about them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted December 4, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2003 http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6084965.html HAHAHA Gamespot gets AOL, oh that made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redestium Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6084965.html HAHAHA Gamespot gets AOL, oh that made my day. Ouch, lol.. :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 wow, I was just trying to work out whether the mergeer between IGN and Gamespy would be a good thing for me as an IGN subscriber, and if I should have subscribed to Gamespot instead. However since they are now with AOL, I know I made the right choice :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 hahah,it sounds like a move to outbeat gamespot :) i find Gamespot more usefull then both of these sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~clean Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 dam thats gonne be one hella big site !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xplatinum Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 what about those with an account on each :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Because of their distinct audiences and strong loyalties, both the IGN.com and GameSpy.com brands will be retained This may mean very little to the average subscriber. I take from the quote that both sites will remain open and individual and this is merely a company merger. What you could expect to see is sites sharing information and maybe even seeing the same articles, or near enough, on both sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 cool but i hate one thing about IGN, i hope it dies in the merge, the daily limit on how many screens you can see and gamespot and AOL, haha, poor gamespot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redestium Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 coolbut i hate one thing about IGN, i hope it dies in the merge, the daily limit on how many screens you can see and gamespot and AOL, haha, poor gamespot Pay the 20 bucks and then you're set for a year...that's what I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kryptonik Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I'm thinking about getting a IGN Insider subscription. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeh Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 IGN? Gamespy? You'd have to pay me to visit those sites >.<. i.e. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova_rock Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 beat me to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redestium Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 IGN? Gamespy? You'd have to pay me to visit those sites >.<.i.e. :D http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031205l.jpg I really wouldn't say IGN is **** though.. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..... Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I really wouldn't say IGN is **** though.. :rolleyes: Gabe has a thing against them. Personally I think they're alright. I only use the vidoe p/reviews and head2heads really. I couldn't care less about their regular reviews/articles most times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatCat Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 IGN is pure crap in my opinion , they sell out on their reviews and give genreous reviews for games that don't deserve high marks. (deus Ex IW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 That's one thing I have to say about the Cube portion of IGN though, you can make a lot of complaints, but being too generous in reviews is not one of them. Especially the recent reviews. That's the drawback of having editors work on seperate sites, a 9.0 in one section doesn't equal a 9.0 in another. A 9.0 on IGNXbox is like a 7 on IGNCube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrosslover Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 now the cube section is favorable in their reviews, but when the system first launched, they had plenty of reviews that were inflated and the editor will admit that from time to time. in general i've found most not all of ign's reviews (all sections) to be right on point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuaKeD Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Is not like i'm going to loose sleep about this :p I don't visit either one of the sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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