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IGN Acquires Humble Bundle

posted by martyb on Saturday October 14 2017, @05:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-a-bundle dept.

takyon writes:

IGN, a game and entertainment media company, has acquired Humble Bundle, a distributor of video games that raises money for charities:

Media giant IGN announced today that it has acquired Humble Bundle, the company best known for selling packs of indie games at pay-what-you-want prices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

This is potentially a big deal for game developers, since Humble has expanded beyond its bundling business to publish games, pay devs to make games for its subscription-based monthly game club, maintain a subscription-based online game trove, and operate an online game storefront.

However, a press release confirming the deal also noted that Humble will continue to operate independently in the wake of the acquisition, with no significant business or staffing changes. It will have some degree of support from IGN (which is itself owned by digital media giant J2 Global), specifically in terms of accelerating growth and raising more money for charity.

I think I stopped using Humble Bundle when they started removing the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a charity option for some bundles.

Also at VentureBeat and Humble Mumble (official blog).

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:52PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:52PM (#582368)

    to pay defective people who couldn't survive in the real world

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday October 14 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday October 14 2017, @08:08PM (#582396) Journal

    to pay defective people who couldn't survive in the real world

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

    jmorris has always depended on the kindness of strangers. Then he bites them. There really ought to be some kind of fix to the problem, some kind of "final solution" to the jmorris question. And they say the alt-right are not straight up Nazis!

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @02:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @02:03AM (#582480)

      Huh, I assumed he was referring to Millionaire Housewives who start charities to feel important and then draw six figure incomes by paying themselves as the founder/CEO/Chairperson, but I rarely read who posted something before reading the post itself.