What does IGN stand for?

[Meg]

I was thinking about this yesterday, and I came up with some funny possibilities.

It started out with an actual guess:
International Gaming News

And theeeeeeen, it devolved into this:
Interesting Grammar Nazi
Intergalactic Gym Number
Ironic Guerilla Nurse
Indefinable Great Nutter

What do you think IGN stands for? :lol:

 

[Springhosen]

It actually stands for Imagine Games Network.

 

[AgentZero]

LOL I always thought it was International Gaming Network.

 

[Romero]

Sorry but you're all wrong, it stands for Irate Gnome Natter.

EDIT
It could be Goblin and not Gnome. Yep, I think it's Goblin.

 

[Meg]

What does that even mean?

 

[ChrisRedfield1994]

Incompetent Gnome Network?

The Imagine refers to the publisher, Imagine Media, who formed it. Now, Imagine is Future US (the US division of publishing giant Future plc).

 

[Romero]

What does that even mean?

Irate Gnome Natter? It should mean angry gnome chatter.

 

[ChrisRedfield1994]

Irate Gnome Natter? It should mean angry gnome chatter.

Having seen the [insert console/game] fanboy v. [insert console/game] fanboy comments on their site, this about sums it up!

 

[JujuLodestar]

Having seen the [insert console/game] fanboy v. [insert console/game] fanboy comments on their site, this about sums it up!

Urg every series has too even the one's that are generally small. have it.

 

[Spikeyroxas]

I know the G stands for Games or some alteration of it.
Never thought of the rest though

 

[rondachewarrior]

Intense Gonorrhea Noises

 

[Turo602]

Actually, according to recent information from a mod over at IGN, the name stands on its own. IGN means IGN and stands for IGN. Nothing else, nothing more.

Here's the quote from peer-ign.

"Ha, actually, neither is correct. We launched as Imagine Games Network in the '90s when our parent company was Imagine Media (they're now called Future). We then merged two networks, IGN (Imagine Games Network) and The Den (=Digital Entertainment Network) in 1999. The latter was all about movies, TV, etc. Around that same time IGN ceased to be "Imagine Games Network" since our parent company became Affiliation/Snowball (we spun out of Imagine into a standalone company).

Today, IGN stands for IGN.

As for entertainment content, I'd estimate we're at about 80:20 games to entertainment overall (most wikis are games, most video content is either gaming-based or mixed entertainment). That said, non-gaming content is very popular. So we're happy and proud to continue to feature it -- as we have for the last 15 years."

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

Rupert Murdoch's Crack-Baby-Piss-Poor-Excuse For Gaming News.

What, that doesn't spell IGN? Well they don't really do honest news or reviews so I guess that's even.

 

[KevinStriker]

It's not an abbreviation at all, it's actually short for ignominious.