[Heyyoudvd]

look at the latest news about IGN:

IGN just held their Q4 conference call at 4:30 pm EST and I jotted down some important news that will affect each and every one of IGN's board users, so please take just a few minutes to read this carefully:

-Snowball.com is diverting ALL of their resources strictly to IGN.com and it's branches

-IGN'S MAIN MISSION for fiscal 2002: Convert all IGN users to Insider

-IGN Insider will be massively expanded in the near future

-IGN is extremely dependant on advertisement reveune and more countdown calenders (such as for Lord of the Rings) and pop-ups will be slowly brought into IGN, *Espically* it's message board section

-**Snowball is planning to increase IGN Insider prices roughly 2 times through fiscal 2002**

-ALL IGN content will eventually be transferred to IGN Insider

-**Putting IGN Boards under Insider-only program is being greatly considered at this point**

-Insider Subscriptions and ads are the two main sources of income for IGN, accounting for roughly 85% of Snowball.com's total income

In conclusion, you are going to be seeing *A TON* of new changes coming to IGN and it's Insider program. Just thought I'd let you all know

Extra:

-IGN magazine sold roughly 30,000 copies, although it wasn't a profitable venture overall (break-even situation)

-All other Snowball.com assets will either be shut down indefinitely or sold off

-There are roughly 550,000 unique board members (according to their calculations), where roughly 20,000 are Insiders