Fandom has acquired GameSpot, GameFAQs, Metacritic, and more in $50 million deal

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Fandom is bulking up the content it offers. The brand known for its fan wikis that cover just about any subject has picked up a number of big brands in the gaming world. In a deal worth about $50 million, Fandom has purchased an assortment of entertainment brands such as TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Comic Vine, GameFAQs, and Cord Cutters News. All of these companies were acquired from Red Ventures, who themselves had purchased those brands from ViacomCBS in 2020.

We’re thrilled to add these powerful, authoritative brands into the Fandom platform, which will expand our business capabilities and provide immersive content for our partners, advertisers and fans. The trusted insights, ratings and content they provide will make us a one-stop shop for fans across their entertainment and gaming journey.

This follows a string of purchases that Fandom has made recently, including ScreenJunkies and Fanatical, and Fandom currently boasts over 350 million unique visitors across all its sites, per month.

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ChiefReginod

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Gamefaqs is a hierarchy of corruption. Mods are semi-randomly selected from among the troll userbase, who then have to become sycophants to THEIR superiors who can demote them whenever they please.
Unfair and inconsistent moderation was why I left that site after 14 years. Mods held grudges and the dispute system was beyond useless. It got to the point that people were getting suspended/banned for things that others were allowed to post freely. I suspect that a handful of mods (not all, because some were really cool) let their political beefs with certain users get the better of them.
 

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fascinating. or horrifying. consolidation of power isn't usually the best. seems like a cheap price, though. then again, I've only heard of a few of those.

wonder if anything will come of this, or if it just means one group gets richer instead of many, and the websites don't change at all.
 

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$50 million is actually a… supremely low evaluation, they must’ve been horrifically mismanaged. Metacritic alone is considered an Internet landmark, as are GameFAQs, GameSpot and Giant Bomb (albeit to a somewhat older crowd). This is a steal for Fandom, provided they’re able to successfully monetise those platforms.
Well GameStop can't be worth more than a cookie
 

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GameFAQs is still very useful nowadays, there's a lot of guides, strategies and info regarding old games.. So if they hide that stuff behind a paywall, or if all of that gets wiped for some reason, it'd be a real shame.. Same for Metacritic, many user-made reviews and not just for games, movies, albums etc.
 

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As long as GameFAQs doesn't go woke, too, I can deal with this.

At least leave us ONE gaming site that isn't bent all the way to the left.
 

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