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| The '''IGNCB''', or IGN Community Board, opened on ], 2000, as the first community board on IGN. It was created for the "non-video game related content" that was beginning to appear on the video game discussion boards. The board currently delivers users with drama, wit, and elite. | |||
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IGN is the oldest and most visited general gaming website, and runs one of the most popular forums on the Internet. IGN is ranked in the top 400 most visited websites according to Alexa.
Introduction
Founded in 1995, the part-free and part-subscription site attracts 8 million unique visitors a month and has 5 million users registered through all departments of the site, including reviews, previews, walkthroughs, codes, and other media.
IGN runs on a combination of advertising and subscriptions. IGN Insider is IGN's premium subscription service at $20/year. Insiders get benefits like the ability to disable some ads, access to Insider only forums, and can read Insider only content.
IGN Entertainment used to be the only gaming website in the stock market (Nasdaq: IGNX), however as of 2003 IGN's stocks are no longer publicly traded.
IGN originally stood for Imagine Games Network, until Imagine Media was acquired by Snowball Inc. Snowball is now known as just IGN Entertainment, thus the IGN acronym has no real meaning.
In March 2004 IGN Entertainment and Gamespy Industries merged, and was briefly known for 3 months as IGN/GameSpy before formalizing their corporate name as IGN Entertainment.
In June 2004, IGN bought the popular movie review site, Rotten Tomatoes.
Message Boards
IGN is also known for its extremely active message boards. According to Big-boards.com, the RPG Vault Network boards is ranked #3, general IGN boards #4, and theforce.net (Star Wars special interest boards) #10. All together, the three communities have almost 200 million active posts. IGN Boards contains many forums on topics ranging from the 3 major video game systems, to cell phones, to dvds, and gear.
The IGN boards were created in late July 2000 as a place of videogame discussion for members of IGN.com.