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Revision as of 23:04, 13 October 2004 by Markl222 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)IGN is the largest and oldest general gaming website on the Internet.
Founded in 1995 (the 1 million+ member message boards were opened in July 2000), the part-free and part-subscriber only ($25/year membership) site has attracted 8 million unique visitors a month and has 5 million users registered through all departments of the site, which includes reviews, previews, walkthroughs, codes, and other media.
IGN Entertainment was the only gaming website in the stock market (Nasdaq: IGNX). IGN's stocks are no longer publicly traded as of 2003.
IGN is also known for its extremely active message boards. According to Big-boards.com, the RPG Vault Network boards is ranked #2, general IGN boards #4, and theforce.net (Star Wars special interest boards) #7. All together, the three communities have almost 200 million active posts.
IGN used to stand for Imagine Games Network, until Imagine Media was acquired by Snowball Inc. Snowball is now known as just IGN Entertainment, thus the IGN acronym has no real meaning.
In 2004 IGN Entertainment and Gamespy Industries merged, and are now known as IGN/Gamespy.
Also in 2004, IGN bought Rotten Tomatoes.
The website is ranked in the top 400 most visited websites according to Alexa.
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