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IGN ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES MSX RESOURCE CENTER, AN ONLINE PIONEER IN THE DELIVERY OF CLASSIC GAMING COMMUNITY PLATFORMS
Acquisition Enhances IGN’s Leadership Position in the Digital Distribution of Game Content
BRISBANE, Calif. – April 1, 2005 -- IGN Entertainment, a leading Internet media company serving the games and entertainment enthusiast markets, today announced that it has acquired MSX RESOURCE CENTER (www.msx.org/), an online pioneer in the delivery of MSX and retrogaming news, forums and file downloads. The acquisition increases the reach of IGN’s audience of game enthusiasts, and when added to IGN’s existing portfolio of successful free, subscription and pay-per-download services, further strengthens the web’s leading game file distribution network.
"MSX Resource Center is a rapidly growing, well-respected pioneer in the retrogaming world and has garnered an enthusiastic, loyal and often well-educated audience," said Mark Jung, CEO of IGN Entertainment. "We expect recent and future developments in Japan and Europe will boost the popularity of this platform, making it an interesting addition to our portfolio. Having FilePlanet, Direct2Drive, Classicgaming and MSX Resource Center in our portfolio solidifies our ability to offer game publishers an incredible opportunity to reach the largest and most active audience of game file downloaders."
"Providing everything there is to know about the MSX computer system and offering our visitors an all-in-one community experience with our many interactive features has been and continues to be one of MSX Resource Center's fundamental principles," said Sander van Nunen, Chairman of the MSX Resource Center Foundation. "In joining forces with IGN, GameSpy and FilePlanet, we will be expanding our reach and providing our users with even better content, information and distribution services, focusing more on retrogaming in general."
About MSX Resource Center
The Dutch foundation MSX Resource Center hosts a website (www.msx.org) completely dedicated to the 8bit home computer system MSX. Millions of MSX computers were sold during the 1980s and early 1990s, mainly in Europe and Japan. The website not only brings the latest news on the activities of the still highly active MSX community, but also offers an active discussion platform and a freeware downloads section in order to support the activities of the MSX community and to bring the MSX computer system under the attention of an ever growing audience.
About IGN Entertainment
IGN Entertainment operates many of the Internet’s leading destinations for video gaming, entertainment and community targeted at teens and 18-34 year-old males. The company’s properties include IGN.com, GameSpy.com, Rotten Tomatoes, FilePlanet.com, Direct2Drive, GameSpyArcade.com, GameSpyArena.com, TeamXbox.com, more than 70 community sites and a vast array of online forums. Collectively, these properties reached 27.7 million users worldwide* in the month of November 2004, according to Internet audience measurement firm, comScore Media Metrix. IGN Entertainment is also a leading provider of technology for online game play in video games. The company’s paid content, download and game play services are among the most popular game-related subscriptions available on the Internet. The privately held company has its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout the U.S.
*Worldwide data cited herein represent an aggregate of 32 countries reported by comScore Media Metrix on a monthly basis.
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