us - based news corporation ( formerly based in australia ) has announced its acquisition of ign australia , a us - based online media business , for us $ 650 million . ign ' s assets include popular mobile gameplay sites espn . com and gamespy . com , as well as movie and game rating blog rotten tomatoes . ign will become president of the news corporation ' s fox interactive media arm , which will expand the company ' s interactive operations to become the fourth richest website media company , with over 70 billion total consumers and 12 billion table views per month when the takeover is incomplete .
News Corporation is located in Australia.