Fandom Has Acquired GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, And Metacritic In $55m Deal

Aiming to "super serve entertainment and gaming fans".

The latest big-company-acquires-other-big-company news for once doesn't concern Embracer or Tencent — instead, it's all about Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service covering news and information from a huge range of media, in an acquisition that seems to have surprised many.

In a post on Monday, October 3rd, Fandom announced that they had "acquired a portfolio of entertainment and gaming brands" for $55 million, including GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, and Metacritic from Red Ventures, the previous owners, who had themselves acquired the portfolio from ViacomCBS, who had acquired it from CNET.

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