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IGN

American video game and entertainment media website
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Summary

IGN is a video game news website[1]. IGN has Wikipedia articles in 50 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: business[4], online newspaper[5], online film database[6]
  • Founder: Mark Jung[7]
  • Owned by: Ziff Davis[8]
  • Headquarters location: San Francisco[9]
  • Location: San Francisco[10], California[11]
  • Place of publication: San Francisco[12]
  • Child organization or unit: Humble Bundle[13]
  • Commons category: IGN[14]
  • Language of work or name: multiple languages[15]
  • Industry: mass media[16]
  • Has part(s): IGN Russia[17], IGN Italy[18], IGN Korea[19], IGN Spain[20], IGN Middle East[21], IGN France[22], IGN Benelux[23], IGN Japan[24]
  • Inception: September 29, 1996[25]
  • Official website: https://www.ign.com[26], https://world.ign.com[27], https://www.ign.com.cn/[28]
  • Topic's main category: Category:IGN[29]
  • Described by source: Columbia Journalism Review's Guide to Online News Startups[30]
  • Alexa rank: 335[31], 654[32], 674[33]
  • Main Wikidata property: P5385[34], P5932[35], P5865[36], P12235[37], P12843[38]
  • Owner of: GameSpy[39], 1Up Network[40], Humble Bundle[41]
  • Social media followers: 15,700,000[42], 8,328,135[43], 9,613,972[44], 17,300,000[45], 18,100,000[46], 18,900,000[47]
  • Maintains linking to: HowLongToBeat[48]

Why It Matters

IGN is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  28. [30] ↑ . cjr.org. cjr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . alexa.com. alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  31. [33] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  43. [45] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · BorkedBot bot · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.ign.com, https://world.ign.com, https://www.ign.com.cn/
    Owner of → GameSpy, 1Up Network, Humble Bundle
    Yahoo! japan news publisher id → ignjapan
    Imported from → —
    + 54 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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