IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
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IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
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Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#2Yay, a company that quite deliberately spams HN bought another website. Can't wait to see the same handful of accounts submitting ign.com alongside extremetech, pcmag and geek!
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#3This is a great example of a cyclical industry. Ziff-Davis buys 1UP and other sites and then hits a wall with its debt load. After the bankruptcy, liquidates and sells 1UP to UGO. UGO is sold to IGN/News Corp. Ziff Davis brand is recapitalized without the debt, buys 1UP and the rest back. The long standing brands never really die, they are just recycled.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#4Nearly all the talent at 1UP left to work in the games industry long ago, but Jeremy Parish is still there and has been there throughout all the selling and buying. Must be odd for him to be back at Ziff again.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#5Yay, a company that quite deliberately spams HN bought another website. Can't wait to see the same handful of accounts submitting ign.com alongside extremetech, pcmag and geek!
I can't recall the last time I saw an IGN story here, and I visit this site a few times a day.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#6Yay, a company that quite deliberately spams HN bought another website. Can't wait to see the same handful of accounts submitting ign.com alongside extremetech, pcmag and geek!
I can't recall the last time I saw an IGN story here, and I visit this site a few times a day.
The parent is referring to other sites, perhaps most notably ExtremeTech, that Ziff Davis owns often (appear to) spam HN.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#7This is a great example of a cyclical industry. Ziff-Davis buys 1UP and other sites and then hits a wall with its debt load. After the bankruptcy, liquidates and sells 1UP to UGO. UGO is sold to IGN/News Corp. Ziff Davis brand is recapitalized without the debt, buys 1UP and the rest back. The long standing brands never really die, they are just recycled.
Actually, most media brands in the games industry are long dead and were left there to rot, without the assets even being sold. Look at EGM, GamePro, Computer Gaming World, Official Xbox Magazine.
Hopefully, none of these acquired sites will be shit canned, but sadly, Ziff is well known for destroying things.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#8This is a great example of a cyclical industry. Ziff-Davis buys 1UP and other sites and then hits a wall with its debt load. After the bankruptcy, liquidates and sells 1UP to UGO. UGO is sold to IGN/News Corp. Ziff Davis brand is recapitalized without the debt, buys 1UP and the rest back. The long standing brands never really die, they are just recycled.
Actually, most media brands in the games industry are long dead and were left there to rot, without the assets even being sold. Look at EGM, GamePro, Computer Gaming World, Official Xbox Magazine. Hopefully, none of these acquired sites will be shit canned, but sadly, Ziff is well known for destroying things.
EGM, CGW, XBoxNation (and maybe a few others) were rolled into 1up.com. I worked on the original 1UP.com site in NYC (classic ASP and Vignette!) prior to it being moved out to San Fran.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#9Yay, a company that quite deliberately spams HN bought another website. Can't wait to see the same handful of accounts submitting ign.com alongside extremetech, pcmag and geek!
I can't recall the last time I saw an IGN story here, and I visit this site a few times a day.
Ziff Davis had/has a half a dozen employee shill accounts at different times for extremetech.com, geek.com and pcmag.com.
This is a great illustration another HN user (DanBC) put together:
They have almost no natural submissions to HN.
Re: IGN Acquired by Ziff Davis
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't recall the last time I saw an IGN story here, and I visit this site a few times a day.
The parent is referring to other sites, perhaps most notably ExtremeTech, that Ziff Davis owns often (appear to) spam HN.
Fair enough. I haven't noticed submissions from them either. Then again, I just browser the first 2 pages and hardly dig into the new submissions area.