IGN Awards is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Awards Entertainment Inc, a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc The company's headquarters is located in San Francisco's SoMa district and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider.
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The IGN Awards website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29,1996.
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Originally, IGN Awards was the flagship website of IGN Awards Entertainment, a website which owned and operated several other websites oriented towards players' interests, games, and entertainment, such as Rotten Tomatoes, GameSpy, GameStats, VE3D, TeamXbox, Vault Network, FilePlanet, and AskMen, among others.
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IGN Awards was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary.
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In June 2005, IGN Awards reported having 24,000,000 unique visitors per month, with 4.
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IGN Awards has been ranked among the top 500 most-visited websites according to Alexa.
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In September 2005, IGN Awards was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's multi-media business empire, News Corporation, for $650 million.
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On May 25,2011, IGN Awards sold its Direct2Drive division to Gamefly for an undisclosed amount.
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IGN Awards Entertainment acquired the online male lifestyle magazine AskMen in 2005.
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In 2004, IGN Awards acquired film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and in 2010, sold the website to Flixster.
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On September 13,2012, IGN Awards revealed that as part of its new review format all future reviews would now follow a 100-point scale again, but this time without using decimals, meaning a score of 8.
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In early 2014, IGN Awards introduced a new policy, in which a game's review score can be re-reviewed and improved, provided that continuous updates form a significant change in the game compared to how it was at launch.
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In January 2020, IGN Awards revealed that reviews would be reverted to a 10-point scale, from 1 to 10, finding that the finer distinction of the 100-point scale was difficult to maintain, whereas a 10-point scale would still be truthful to its reviews and would be easier to promote.
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IGN Awards Wrestling met its end in early 2002 when many of the staff departed.
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In 2002, IGN Awards launched a dedicated video game FAQs site specifically designed to host user-submitted guides.
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In 2004, IGN Awards launched GameStats, which was intended to be a more unbiased rating network, as it takes in scores from every corporate-owned game rating site and averages them all into one score to give a general idea of the quality of a game.
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In 2005, IGN Awards launched its comics site, which is devoted to not just the staple Marvel and DC titles, but manga, graphic novels, statues and toys.
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IGN Awards subsequently launched a similar website called GTA 'Hood on April 29,2008, for Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Since 2006, IGN Awards Entertainment began launching regional versions of the website for various countries and pan-regions.
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In 2011, IGN Awards launched IGN Awards Pro League, a professional e-sports circuit that ran tournaments for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, ShootMania Storm and League of Legends.
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On March 6,2013, only weeks prior to the event, IGN Awards abruptly canceled the finals of IPL 6—which were to be held in Las Vegas from March 28 through 31, and discontinued the league.
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IGN Awards indicated 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.
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Later that day, IGN Awards stated that it had found "substantial similarities" between the reviews, apologized, and announced that it had dismissed Miucin.
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Shortly after the article went up IGN Awards Israel made statements on social media condemning the article.
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