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Sign in to saveIGN is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. IGN features articles on games, films, anime, television, comics, technology, and other media. Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is also distributed on mobile platforms, console programs available on the Xbox and Pl
Key facts
- Website.name
- IGN
- Website.logo
- frameless|class=skin-invert
- Website.company_type
- Subsidiary
- Website.founder
- Jonathan Simpson-Bint
- Website.location
- San Francisco, California
- Website.country
- United States
- Website.industry
- Video game and media journalism
- Website.num_employees
- 250
- Website.ipv6
- No
- Website.website_type
- Entertainment
- Website.language
- English, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Swedish, Hebrew, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Greek, Romanian, Korean, Croatian, Turkish, Czech, Portuguese, Japanese, Hindi
- Website.current_status
- Active
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23 sectionsContents
- History
- Acquisition of UGO, sale to Ziff Davis
- Subsidiaries and spin-offs
- Scoring systems
- Original scale
- 20-point scale
- 100-point scale
- Re-review policy
- 10-point scale
- ''IGN'' 'Best of' awards
- Other sections
- Regional websites
- IGN Con
- ''IGN'' Pro League
- Controversies
- Journalistic misconduct accusation
- Sexual harassment accusations
- Plagiarism
- Article supporting Palestinian aid
- Television and films
- Notes
- References
- External links
IGN is an American video gaming and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. IGN features articles on games, films, anime, television, comics, technology, and other media. Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is also distributed on mobile platforms, console programs available on the Xbox and PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mobile, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu, and Snapchat.
Originally, IGN was the flagship website of IGN Entertainment, a website which owned and operated several other websites oriented towards players' interests, games, and entertainment, such as Rotten Tomatoes, GameSpy, GameStats, VE3D, TeamXbox, Vault Network, FilePlanet, and AskMen. IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013.