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Also known as IGN Entertainment, Inc., Imagine Games Network, IGN.com, www.ign.com, Internet Generation Network

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 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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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.ign.com.cn
Image: Ignentertainmenthq.jpg

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Alexa rank: 674
inception: 1996-09-29
social media followers: 18900000
Commons category: IGN

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23 sections

Contents

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

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.