The Daily Populous Wednesday May 22nd, 2024 night edition
Authored by gamesindustry.biz and submitted by AliTVBG

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.

0MEGAP0RK on May 21st, 2024 at 17:02 UTC »

That stinks

Trout-Population on May 21st, 2024 at 17:00 UTC »

Fuck corporate consolidation offing the competition. Independent media is the place to go for gaming journalism and news these days anyways.

GhostMaGiK on May 21st, 2024 at 16:52 UTC »

That is why the world is going to shit imo. Monopolies are being created left and right, and those responsible are not responding.

After they buy their competitors they just close big parts down, for redundancies reason, with no shame. There should be stricter rules for such behavior.