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Image: FandomThe latest big-company-acquires-other-big-company quality for erstwhile doesn't interest Embracer oregon Tencent — instead, it's each astir Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting work covering quality and accusation from a immense scope of media, successful an acquisition that seems to person amazed many.
In a station connected Monday, October 3rd, Fandom announced that they had "acquired a portfolio of amusement and gaming brands" for a reported $55 million, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall). The woody includes GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, and Metacritic from Red Ventures, the erstwhile owners, who had themselves acquired the portfolio from ViacomCBS.
Metacritic is an aggregation tract for crippled reappraisal scores, which is notable for providing an mean people for games — a information often utilized by improvement studios arsenic a benchmark for a game's success.
GameFAQs has been astir since the '90s, arsenic possibly 1 of the astir memorable places to find ASCII walkthroughs and answers to obscure questions astir puzzles and brag battles.
GameSpot is notable for launching the careers of names similar Greg Kasavin — mostly known present arsenic the writer and originative manager astatine Supergiant Games — and Jeff Gerstmann, who was fired from GameSpot successful 2007 implicit a antagonistic reappraisal of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, which had led to publishers threatening to retreat their advertizing from the site.
Gerstmann would spell connected to recovered gaming website Giant Bomb successful 2008 with chap erstwhile GameSpot exertion Ryan Davis. In 2012, Gerstmann was brought backmost into the fold erstwhile Giant Bomb was acquired by GameSpot genitor institution ViacomCBS arsenic portion of a combined gaming portfolio, but ViacomCBS aboriginal sold the tract to Red Ventures.
Rumours person been swirling astir Giant Bomb since a wide departure of endowment successful mid-2021, erstwhile seasoned 'Bomb formed members Vinny Caravella, Alex Navarro, and Brad Shoemaker near each astatine once to commencement their ain project, Nextlander, having been astatine Giant Bomb since the beginning. Gerstmann himself near the squad successful 2022.
Fandom spoke connected their announcement post astir their plans for the sites, which revolves astir providing "immersive contented for our partners, advertisers and fans" arsenic good arsenic expanding their "global instrumentality level to ace service amusement and gaming fans":
The caller combined level volition thrust engagement crossed each measurement of the user travel - reference, community, trends, ratings, reviews, quality and commerce.
With the summation of these gaming, movie and TV platforms, Fandom volition widen its 360 programs for its advertizing partners - including crippled publishers, studios and streaming services - and heighten the information and insights wrong FanDNA, Fandom’s proprietary information platform.
Additionally, the woody volition substance Fandom’s affiliate and commerce efforts including accelerating gross connected Fanatical, its gaming commerce business.
This acquisition — which besides includes Comic Vine, Cord Cutters News, and TV Guide — is the latest successful a drawstring of purchases for Fandom, pursuing connected the heels of Screen Junkies, Gamepedia, D&D Beyond, and Focus Multimedia.
Let america cognize your thoughts connected this latest circular of acquisitions successful the comments.
[source about.fandom.com]
