IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis and wholly owned by j2 Global. The company is located in San Francisco's SOMA district in California, United States, and is headed by its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider. The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, and other media. 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 the 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. 

Created in September 1996 as the "Imagine Games Network", the IGN content network was founded by publishing executive Jonathan Simpson-Bint and began as five individual websites within Imagine Media: N64.com (later renamed ign64.com), PSXPower, Saturnworld, Next-Generation.com and Ultra Game Players Online. Imagine expanded on its owned-and-operated websites by creating an affiliate network that included a number of independent fansites such as PSX Nation.com, Sega-Saturn.com, Game Sages, and GameFAQs. In 1998, the network launched a new homepage that consolidated the individual sites as system "channels" under the IGN brand. The homepage exposed content from more than 30 different channels. Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation; U.G.P.O. dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put "on hold" when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching the short-lived Daily Radar brand.
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j2 Global.
wholly owned by j2 Global.
Imagine Games Network
formerly Imagine Games Network
San Francisco'
The company is located in San Francisco'
SOMA district
San Francisco's SOMA district
Peer Schneider
its former editor-in-chief, Peer Schneider
editor-in-chief
 headed by its former editor-in-chief
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The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson
The IGN website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson
September 29, 1996
Chris Anderson and launched on September 29, 1996
mobile platforms
distributed on mobile platforms
desktop websites
Originally a network of desktop websites
a network
Originally a network of desktop websites
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 Xbox and PlayStation, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu, and Snapchat
N64.com
N64.com (later renamed ign64.com
the homepage
n 1998, the network launched a new homepage
consolidated the individual sites as system channels
consolidated the individual sites as system "channels
more than 30
 The homepage exposed content from more than 30 different 
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Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation;
Ultra Game Players Online
Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation; U.G.P.O