{"id":845668,"date":"2025-12-13T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamer-has-a-new-parent-company"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:44:12","slug":"eurogamer-has-a-new-parent-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/eurogamer-has-a-new-parent-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurogamer has a new parent company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/eurogamer-has-a-new-parent-company.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nHey everyone. At 5pm yesterday, it was announced that the Gamer Network family of websites &#8211; Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and Dicebreaker &#8211; had been acquired by a new owner, IGN Entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>\nThis was not unexpected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/editors-blog-eurogamer-owner-seeking-buyer\">Gamer Network had been publicly up for sale for a few months<\/a>, as you may recall, after our previous parent company Reedpop decided to divest the websites it bought alongside EGX. <\/p>\n<p>\nAnd IGN Entertainment, which alongside its flagship website also runs a bunch of other long-running brands like Humble Bundle, Mashable, Lifehacker and PCMag, had always seemed a possible buyer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamer-has-a-new-parent-company\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/eurogamer-has-a-new-parent-company\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone. At 5pm yesterday, it was announced that the Gamer Network family of websites &#8211; Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and Dicebreaker &#8211; had been acquired by a new owner, IGN Entertainment. This was not unexpected. Gamer Network had been publicly up for sale for a few months, as you may recall, after our previous parent company Reedpop decided to divest the websites it bought alongside EGX. And IGN Entertainment, which alongside its flagship website also runs a bunch of other long-running brands like Humble Bundle, Mashable, Lifehacker and PCMag, had always seemed a possible buyer. 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