News Corp. is acquiring Hearst’s UGO web site as it prepares to spin off its IGN.com game web site as a separate company.
News Corp. is already planning on selling its MySpace social network. Now it also is preparing to spin out IGN.
One of the first steps in that process is buying UGO.com, which focuses on guys and games, much like IGN.
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