Gaming and entertainment website for video game news, reviews, guides, walkthroughs, movies, TV, comics, videos, release coverage, scoring, deals, and global fan communities
IGN
IGN is a gaming and entertainment website covering video game news, reviews, guides, walkthroughs, movies, TV, comics, videos, release coverage, scoring, deals, and global fan communities.
What IGN is
IGN is a gaming and entertainment website covering video games, movies, TV, comics, guides, reviews, videos, trailers, deals, and fan culture. Visit IGN.com to read news, reviews, walkthroughs, rankings, release coverage, interviews, and entertainment features. The site is useful when readers want a quick review score, a game guide, a trailer reaction, a release-date update, a movie or show review, or broad coverage of what gaming and entertainment fans are talking about.
Gaming as the center
IGN is best known for video game coverage. It reports on major console, PC, mobile, and online game releases, and it follows platform news from companies such as Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, and major publishers. Gaming coverage on IGN ranges from fast news posts to reviews, previews, interviews, guides, gameplay videos, live event coverage, and larger franchise explainers. That range lets the site serve both casual players and fans who follow the industry closely.
Reviews and scoring
IGN's review scores are one of its most visible features. Scores help readers quickly compare reactions to new games, movies, shows, and hardware, but the written review usually matters more than the number. A good review explains why something works or fails: design, pacing, controls, story, performance, accessibility, multiplayer balance, technical polish, and whether the experience is worth a reader's time and money.
Guides and walkthroughs
IGN also publishes guides and walkthroughs that help players progress through games. These can include boss strategies, item locations, puzzle answers, map routes, build suggestions, collectibles, and completion checklists. Guides are different from criticism. A review helps decide whether to play; a guide helps once the player is already inside the game and wants to solve a problem or see more of what the game offers.
Entertainment beyond games
IGN covers movies, TV, comics, anime-adjacent entertainment, streaming series, and pop culture tied to fan communities. This makes sense because modern entertainment franchises often cross media: a game becomes a show, a comic becomes a film, and a movie trailer can become a gaming conversation. That cross-media approach helps IGN follow fandom as a whole rather than treating games, film, and television as isolated worlds.
Strengths and tradeoffs
IGN's strength is scale. It covers many releases, platforms, formats, and entertainment events, which makes it a familiar starting point for mainstream gaming and pop culture news. The tradeoff is that broad coverage can feel less specialized than niche communities or technical outlets. Players looking for deep competitive strategy, modding details, preservation history, or hardware benchmarks may need additional sources.
Why it matters
IGN matters because gaming is now a central part of entertainment culture. Games shape streaming, fandom, online communities, hardware sales, film and TV adaptations, esports, creator culture, and how people spend time with friends. A large entertainment site like IGN helps organize that attention: what launched, what is worth watching or playing, where players are stuck, and how franchises move across games, screens, and communities.