IGN

IGN an abbreviation of its former pull in Imagine Games Network is an American video game as living as entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc. The company is located in San Francisco's SoMa district & is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. a IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson & 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 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(a) as Rotten Tomatoes, GameSpy, GameStats, VE3D, TeamXbox, Vault Network, FilePlanet, and AskMen, among others. IGN was sold to publishing organization Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary.

Pro League

In 2011, IGN launched IGN Pro League, a expert , ShootMania Storm and League of Legends. On March 6, 2013, only weeks prior to the event, IGN abruptly canceled the finals of IPL 6—which were to be held in Las Vegas from March 28 through 31, and discontinued the league. IGN covered that it was no longer in a position to commit to competing with the increased number of e-sports events that were now being held. On April 8, 2013, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it had acquired the staff and assets of the IPL from IGN; its former staff were reassigned to produce on in-house e-sports productions.