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 |
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Founder(s) | Jonathan Simpson-Bint |
Key people | Peer Schneider (General Manager) |
Industry | Video game and media journalism |
Employees | 250 |
Parent | Ziff Davis |
Website | www |
Alexa rank | 369 (april 2017[update]) |
Registration |
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Current status | Active |
IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video games and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis and wholly owned by j2 Global. The company is located in San Francisco's SOMA district in California, United States, 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, television, comics, technology, and other media. 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.