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• , a subsidiary of j2 Global and wholly owned by Ziff Davis
• and headed up by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider
• The website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996
• It focuses on game]]s, films, television, comics, technology, and other media
• The company is located in San Francisco's SOMA district in California, United States
• Originally a network of desktop websites, IGN is now distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the Xbox and PlayStation, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu, and Snapchat
• Originally, IGN was the flagship property of parent company IGN Entertainment, 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
• IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary