News corporation, owner of some big information and media companys such as the NY Post and Fox News announced today that they´ve come to an agreement to buy IGN and it´s network of gaming sites wich includes Gamespy, Direct2drive and Gamestats among others for $650 million.

Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp. is putting a lot of money on the web, they also acquired MySpace.com recently.

How is this going to affect those sites? I have no idea but i think this is interesting for the gaming indutry. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of the year.