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About Ign

IGN (abbreviated and formerly known as Imagine Games Network) is a multimedia news and reviews website that focuses heavily on video games. Its corporate parent is IGN Entertainment, which owns and controls separate sites such as GameSpy, Rotten Tomatoes, and AskMen.

IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites, or "channels", each occupying a subdomain on IGN and covering a specific area of entertainment. Game-related channels include PC Games, Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wireless, and Retro. In addition, IGN has channels covering movies, music, gear and technology, sports, television, celebrities and more.

Founded in September of 1996 as Imagine Games Network by, IGN began as six individual websites within Imagine Publishing: IGN64.com, PSXPower, Saturnworld, Happypeople.com, Next-Generation.com and Ultra Game Players Online. The growth of these websites enabled Imagine to expand the network in April 1997, hiring additional staff and birthing the now-defunct advertising-focused affiliate program. In 1998, the network consolidated the individual sites as system "channels" under the IGN brand. Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation; UGPO dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put 'on hold' when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching the short-lived Daily Radar brand.