Word on the street, and within the pages of
BusinessWeek,
is that the IGN network is looking to go public. Bankers are putting prices on the testosterone-filled gamer
hangout from $700 million to as high as $1 billion (eeek!). Even with 11 million supposed users, that price tag
places IGN within the realm of top media companies in the world. Hey, if IGN is worth $1 billion, we at Joystiq
are going to get a banker of our own.
You give away your internet age when you (like me) remember that IGN has not always been a private company. There was a time when the mega-guy community was part of a company called "Snowball"... in fact, you can still buy yourself a Snowball.com stock certificate from the dot-com days of yester year. Heck.,.. I even worked with the guy that signed those Snowball.com stock certificates. Those were the days when guy-focused sites were all the rage. Guess those days are back again.
