IGN and GameSpy Announce Merger Agreement
Combination will create the web's largest network of gaming destination sites.
December 04, 2003 - No, it's not April Fool's Day. To quote the Simpsons: "I had a big company, and he had a big company, and now we have a very big company."
Former rivals IGN Entertainment and GameSpy Industries have kissed and made up and have signed a definitive merger agreement creating the Web's largest network of destination sites for gamers. Both brands will remain separate entities.
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 (IGN/GameSpy internal logs). According to third-party auditor comScore NetScore data, IGN and GameSpy 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.
http://games.ign.com/articles/444/444326p1.html
Combination will create the web's largest network of gaming destination sites.
December 04, 2003 - No, it's not April Fool's Day. To quote the Simpsons: "I had a big company, and he had a big company, and now we have a very big company."
Former rivals IGN Entertainment and GameSpy Industries have kissed and made up and have signed a definitive merger agreement creating the Web's largest network of destination sites for gamers. Both brands will remain separate entities.
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 (IGN/GameSpy internal logs). According to third-party auditor comScore NetScore data, IGN and GameSpy 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.
http://games.ign.com/articles/444/444326p1.html