Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site
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Entertainment |
Available in | English, German, Hebrew, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Greek, Romanian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Urdu, Filipino and other Philippine dialects |
Founded | September 29, 1996 | (as Imagine Games Network)
Headquarters |
625 2nd Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 37°46′53″N 122°23′29″W / 37.7814°N 122.3914°WCoordinates: 37°46′53″N 122°23′29″W / 37.7814°N 122.3914°W |
Owner | Ziff Davis |
Founder(s) | Chris Anderson Mark Jung Jonathan Simpson-Bint Chris Charla Simon Whitcombe Julian Rignall Peer Schneider Tal Blevins Douglass Perry Matt Casamassina Trent Ward Jason Bates Craig Harris Eric Marcoullier |
Key people | Peer Schneider (General Manager) |
Industry | Video game and media journalism |
Employees | 250 |
Parent |
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Website | www |
Alexa rank | 451 (December 2016[update]) |
Registration |
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Current status | Active |
IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is a San Francisco–based games and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of j2 Global and wholly owned by Ziff Davis. and headed up by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, and other media. The company is located in San Francisco's SOMA district in California, United States. Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is now 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 property of parent company IGN Entertainment, 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, among others. IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary.