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As IGN member of 8 years. I’m saying don’t.
IGN was a great source at one point for all the nerd stuff! But to put it simple the flow of articles really hit the breaks as the years have past. Strange when gaming has grown so big. The journalist they have now can get political and some of them even show racism towards white people. I wish I was joking on that. And even the good journalist, that don’t show biased opinions to cater to gaming corporations or social groups. Tend to sound like yes men and agree with whatever the internet has to say on whatever topic. I’ve tried ignoring all these problems do to my love for games and my deep history with this site. But whether I want to or not, it’s a little too easy to find more relevant and updated gaming news. I cant recommend IGN to anyone who is serious about gaming and what it means to be a honest gamer.Show lessJay_Mitch
Once great, but now virtually unbearable
This app has gone down the crapper. It’s loaded with ads, and it’s so buggy, it’s virtually unusable. They’re now a haven for clickbait, affiliate ads disguised as editorials, and these awful new takeover ads that blackout your screen and make you sit through a trailer for some BS content and you’re not able to bypass it for several seconds. Might now sound like a big deal, but it’s super annoying, disruptive and invasive. What’s more is the writing is nowhere near what it used to be. Things are loaded with spelling and grammatical errors as if no one is proofing their work!
I’m deleting this terrible app after having it for several years now that the quality is completely unrecognizable, much like what you’d expect from a tabloid site. Absolute shame.Show lessKarlson4
Loading Issues
This review is purely for the app itself and is unrelated to the content IGN produces.
Any page other than any of the landing screens will load and reload until you eventually hit a blank white screen with the uppermost nav bar available (tap IGN to go back to Home or the back arrow to go back to whichever landing section you had used to navigate to that specific page) but nothing else. It may have something to do with the excessive amount of ads on the pages, but it’s difficult to tell for sure. Either way, it makes it impossible to use the guides I would normally be using for my games, which is my main usage of the app. I’d switch over to the website, but the mobile site is equally as glitchy but in other ways. :( C’mon y’all, I know you can do better than this.Show lessSylveonne
Decent App But Buggy
The app developer seriously needs to make an improvement in this app. While scrolling down on the main main is fine (but not great); But what really needs to be fixed are the articles that you select to read. The words are half missing or just weird black shapes. Adds cover part of the words. Sometimes the whole article doesn't even load properly. When trying to play a trailer for something it either doesn't work properly and not easy to exit out of it to go to something new. The app doesn't need to be amazing, but definitely be better than what it is now.Show lessSEXY DANCERS
Typical Corporate Trash
Long story short: This is the laggiest and most frequently crashing app in the news app genre. Every article is between an Ad that won’t load in time so the further you scroll the more it starts lagging until it eventually dies.
The “gaming journalists” “write” half a dozen articles on a good day and every article is about the same three things: ONE upcoming game, Netflix (usually a marvel series), and some e-sports wank that literally gets no response because no-one on earth cares. It’s so trashy that this rant could go on until it’s a book. Spare yourself this one dimensional ad-revenue torture and get yourself a free, multiple-source news app with 100 times the content and none of the garbage programming.Show lessArchaicSoul
Great
I’ve been using this app for years thanks to its intuitive interface that makes for a convenient method of keeping up with all things gaming related. The only problem is I’ve experienced the same bug for literally years. The first time I open the app and tap a story the app gets stuck and I have to close the app, reopen it and then tap the story to actually read it. It’s incredibly frustrating because it’s something that should’ve been fixed ages ago. It’s not just the phone I’m currently using either. I’ve had the iPhone 4s, 6, 7, and now XS and have had the same issue on all of them.Show lessBighebnn
A step back
I enjoyed that last edition of the app more. I liked the home page much better when it had the main headlines scrolling on top of the Paige and the rest of the stories below it. Also searching a game is much more cumbersome. Before I could search a game and pull up the game’s main page and within that I could read the brief description, find the review, see the release date, and if I wanted to dive drape I could go to the wiki page. Now the wiki page is the first thing that pops up and I have to click though a bunch of tabs to get where I really want to go. It’s confusing and I don’t like itShow lessJeff S. Edwards
Good but could improve
Well first I’d like to say I’m great full for what your company and employees do for the gaming community as a whole. With that said your app could do with fine tuning. After my initial choice of content it’s hard to go back change my choices. A better tutorial on your settings would be nice, and also a way to go back a see that tutorial again if I need it would be great. As far as the content of your product. I would say it’s excellent from my per view. Only negative I could give would be that most of your reviews seem to start from a personal view point and stay that way until the end of the article. It might just be my personal view but a review is supposed to be facts and info followed by a personal opinion at the end, maybe two or three different opinions. Well sorry for the long winded review. I hope someone reads this and I hope I see some of feedback from this as well. Sorry for poor sentence structure. Lol 😆Show lessBL3SS1NG
Seems like they abandoned app support
Videos will often times not play properly. An add will play for 30 seconds, and audio sometimes starts but no video. Have to reload, end up having to watch another 30 second add, and I usually lose interest in co tonguing by then.
Also, the comments sections of almost every article never loads. I get just a black screen usually 9 out of 10 Times trying to look at comments on ANYTHING. It’s been like this for months, so it seems like the developers of the app, and IGN in general, doesn’t care about the app or wether it works properly or not. They get add revenue from it still since those seem to work great, so no need to fix any other issues evidently.
All of these issues are on my iPhone 7 Plus so it shouldn’t be a compatibility issue.Show lessJessiegray88
Too much video, and not much gaming news
I did a review a few years back on the IGN app being too video focused. Some people still like to read! However, my concern over the most recent revamp is the filters are not very effective. I'm interested in games, not comic books, not TV deals, and not movies. In fact in opening the app today, i had to move past 3 podcast stories to get an actual article. These may include video games news, but I'm not here to listen to podcasts, we do that in a different app folks. Let me filter by games, but all the stories are still stuff unrelated to games. Unfortunately IGN is more concerned about monetizing the app by having us click on these purported 'deals'. For those interested in news about video games, i would suggest Apple News app and just set 'video games' as a favorites.Show lessMikeo_19
