IGN

IGN
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Entertainment
Available inEnglish, 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
FoundedSeptember 29, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-09-29)[a]
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California,
United States[1]
Founder(s)Jonathan Simpson-Bint
Key people
IndustryVideo game and media journalism
Employees250
Parent
URL
Registration
  • Free
  • IGN Prime
  • Founder's Club
Current statusActive

IGN[b] is an American video game 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. It focuses 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 on the Xbox and PlayStation, 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.


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  1. ^ "Contact – IGN Entertainment". Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved June 29, 2021.