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IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I feel like there should be laws against these companies buying up all the other companies and controlling the entire landscape in a given market. It’s almost like they are eliminating competition through turning many things into one thing. Like now its one big thing made of many, and that seems bad. Maybe I should make a universally hated board game to teach people about it, but I’m afraid everyone will buy crazy amounts of copies of it all with different themes and somehow miss the point entirely.

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Haha no dude its a free market dude you wouldnt get it dude 🤠

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Safe to say we shouldn't expect any more decent posts from either one of those. Quite a shame

[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Digital Foundry is the interesting one. Their parent company is Eurogamer.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wow somehow missed that when I read the news earlier today! Digital Foundry is easily my favorite VG journalism outfit. I hope this acquisition doesn’t impact them.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IGN is already laying off a ton of people with no explanation, so i seriously doubt that

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Saw that this morning. I’d follow the DF crew wherever they go.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

Of course it will. They wouldn't allow themself to be sold if things were gravy and profits abundant...

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

My TIL has nothing to do with who they acquired today but rather that they own Humble Bundle. When did that happen? I did notice in a bundle they were wrapping in an IGN account I had no interest in. (Friends often have to use that for gifting games cause of steam region locks).

I'll never forget my first buy out experience when GameSpot bought GameFAQs. Who themselves got bought or passed around, now under Fandom (who incidentally owns metacritic and more) and itself is owned by TPG, whos whole business is just owning shit or parts of shit.

In hindsight that's also my first experience with enshittification. GG, teenage me.

[–] MamboGator@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The only act I follow that will be affected is OutsideXbox and their child channels OutsideXtra and Oxventure. Hopefully they get through it unscathed.

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ugh, there's goes the entire space.