IGN

IGN is a part-free and part-subscription general gaming website. It was founded in 1995, starting as N64.com, SaturnWorld and PSX Power. It is controlled by 92.3% shareholder News Corporation, a company chaired by Rupert Murdoch. It was bought for $650 million on 8 September 2005.

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Gaming - Website - 1995 - News Corporation - Rupert Murdoch

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As of June 2005, it claims 23 million unique visitors a month, with 5 million users registered through all departments of the site, including reviews, previews, walkthroughs, codes, and other media. IGN is a highly profitable business, and each single page often has at least 3 advertisements, complete with tracking cookies from both IGN and "partners" such as DoubleClick, Overture, TribalFusion and Gator. One of it's most notable parts is GameSpy, which was originally a separate company. The GameSpy suite of programs have been source of much controversy due to bundled adware and spyware.

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DoubleClick - Overture - TribalFusion - Gator - GameSpy - Adware - Spyware

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IGN's core site -- IGN -- is comprised of a several specialty sites, each occupying a subdomain on IGN. This has given rise to such IGN sites (sometimes referred to as 'channels') such as Xbox 360, Xbox, Playstation 3 (PS3), Playstation 2, GameCube, PC Games, Playstation Portable, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Cheats, Guides, FAQs, DVD, Music, Comics, Sports, Cars, and Babes.

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Xbox 360 - Xbox - Playstation 3 - Playstation 2 - GameCube - Playstation Portable - Game Boy - Nintendo DS - DVD

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IGN is ranked among the top 300 most visited websites according to Alexa, and the IGN forums have been considered to be among the most popular Internet forums{{ref|BigBoards}}.

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Alexa - Internet forum

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