It's not only game publishers that have been consolidating their power buying up lots of developers and other publishers, it's also happening in gaming media with IGN buying up the Gamer Network.
  • unreliable@discuss.tchncs.de
    201·
    6 months ago

    With monopoly of all game review, they will receive a lot of money from AAA. All the crap will be written by AI. Looks a lot of money to be made. IGN was point less many yea ago, now we need to start to ignore all others.

    So basically have we only steam reviews to trust? Steam got a lot more power with this.

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
    12·
    6 months ago

    If they bought the domains and fired the people it should be easy for someone else to start a new site using the available talent pool to quickly become a relevant name as well.

    Me personally, I strongly dislike IGN because (other than all the common reasons) they force me to access a poorly translated version of their content when I’m perfectly capable of reading their originals in English, so even if they have an article I’m interested on, I can’t easily access any decent version of it because or my geographic location.

  • DuckGuy
    1·
    6 months ago

    Here’s the full list for those who never follow links:

    IGN Entertainment now control GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247, and Dicebreaker. They also hold shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry, and Hookshot (which operates Nintendo life, Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension).