MaydaX Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Ziff-Davis recently purchased IGN and all its properties, which includes 1up, GameSpy and UGO, and today they’ve set about restructuring the whole place, leaving behind many casualties. According to an internal memo obtained by Polygon. ZD wants to focus all its efforts within the properties they just purchased from Fox behind the core brands, IGN and AskMen. And so they’re shutting down 1up, GameSpy and UGO as separate entities and consolidating assets behind those bigger names. What that means is that some folks at IGN are being laid off as well and probably some people from the other sites will be kept on and brought into the mothership. This is what we call “corporate restructuring.” It never really made much sense to have three sites owned by a single company that serve the same audience and produce very similar content. This move was inevitable. RIP 1up and GameSpy http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/21/1up-gamespy-shut-down-by-ziff-davis-ign-suffers-layoffs/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTaz Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Does that mean Fileplanet will be shut down as well as it is powered by IGN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMagnet Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 what about the matchmaking powered by gamespy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos1907 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) what about the matchmaking powered by gamespy? If they shut down it GameSpy (the software program), all the communities are lost on GameSpy games. One of them being Halo: Combat Evolved and I do play that game. That game maybe older than CoD, but it's what kicked off the Halo franchise! Edited February 22, 2013 by Chaos1907 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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