IGN Buys Gamer Network Sites, Layoffs In Progress
The gaming media panorama has simply gotten much more consolidated. IGN Leisure has bought Gamer Community’s digital manufacturers, which embrace Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247, and Dicebreaker. Because of the acquisition, layoffs for among the affected websites have already begun. Brendan Sinclair, the favored managing editor of GamesIndustry.biz, was among the many workers who have been let go.
The information was shared with a lot of websites together with the now-IGN-owned GamesIndustry.biz. Gamer Community was based by Rupert and Nick Loman in 1999 alongside the launch of Eurogamer. Gamer Community expanded to incorporate the beforehand talked about websites, and in addition owns a portion of Exterior Xbox, Digital Foundry, in addition to Hookshot; which incorporates Nintendolife, PushSquare, PureXbox, and Time Extension beneath its websites.
Gamer Community was initially offered to ReedPop in 2018, earlier than the corporate signaled its intent to promote Gamer Community’s belongings in late 2023. ReedPop had been behind the deliberate relaunch of E3 in 2023, partnering with the ESA to supply the present. Nevertheless, it was subsequently canceled and E3 was killed off for good the next yr.
ReedPop’s Popverse comedian e-book and geek tradition web site was not included within the sale to IGN. Moreover, ReedPop will preserve its EGX and MCM conventions in the UK along with its home comedian conventions like New York Comedian Con.
