As of late, the video games trade has felt a little bit in all places. We’ve seen numerous acquisitions: Microsoft purchased ActiBlizz, Sony acquired Valkyrie Entertainment, Quantic Dream was extra lately acquired by Netease Games, and the listing continues.

Acquisitions have not simply been restricted to the likes of builders and publishers, nonetheless, with the host of assorted fan wiki pages – Fandom – buying Giant Bomb, GameSpot, MetaCritic, GameFAQs, Comic Vine, Cord Cutters News, and TV Guide.

Fandom is one thing that’ll be acquainted to most of us. There’s a relatively excessive likelihood then whenever you googled that character in that Rings of Power present everyone seems to be speaking about, you wound up on a Fandom webpage. It now seems that Fandom is stretching its wings and approaching popular culture media with open arms, actually.

While Fandom did beforehand purchase the likes of Focus Multimedia and Fanatical simply final yr, I’m unsure anybody anticipated Fandom to reel off the acquisitions that it did right this moment.

Via our buddies over at GamesBusiness.biz, Fandom CEO Perkins Miller says, “We’re thrilled so as to add these highly effective, authoritative manufacturers into the Fandom platform, which is able to broaden our enterprise capabilities and supply immersive content material for our companions, advertisers and followers. The trusted insights, rankings and content material they supply will make us a one-stop store for followers throughout their leisure and gaming journey.”

GameSpot, Giant Bomb, and MetaCritic had been offered to Red Ventures in 2020, when the corporate acquired CNET Media Group. Now, they’re going to be mixed into the Fandom platform, alongside TV Guide, GameFAQs, Comic Vine, and Cord Cutters News.