GameSpy Sees Room to Play

(reg. req.): Once the narrow province of hard-core gamers, sites such as GameSpy (now merged with IGN) are growing in prominence as more and more computer games move onto the Internet. They are part of a synergistic universe of companies that are attempting to be the ESPN or TV Guide of the gaming industry.

The company’s sites see 19.7 million visitors a month, and more than 200,000 subscribers pay $7 a month or $60 a year for access to special features or files. The privately-owned IGN/GameSpy, born of a recent merger between onetime rivals, expects to collect revenue in the neighborhood of $50 million this year from its collection of online businesses.

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