Six Flags Fiesta Texas Partners With IGN Entertainment to Launch ESIX Gaming, the World’s First-ever Theme Park Based Gaming Experience

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ESIX Gaming powered by Coca-Cola™ Debuts Saturday, May 20

San Antonio -- Six Flags Fiesta Texas, The Thrill Capital of South Texas, in partnership with IGN Entertainment, today announced the May 20 official launch of ESIX Gaming powered by Coca-Cola™. IGN, the world’s number one entertainment platform, becomes the official streaming and media partner in debuting this new, top-of-the-line competitive gaming campus.

As the largest gaming-focused media platform in the world with over 286M+ unique users, IGN is positioned to bring the excitement of ESIX to gamers of all ages. Through this partnership, Six Flags Fiesta Texas and IGN Entertainment will host and stream a range of competitive events throughout the year featuring the biggest games, teams and IGN’s array of beloved hosts.

“Six Flags Fiesta Texas is excited to partner with IGN Entertainment to launch a new, cutting-edge gaming experience, the first of its kind at any theme park in the world,” said Park President Jeffrey Siebert. “As leaders in the gaming industry, IGN Entertainment brings an unprecedented level of excitement and expertise to ESIX Gaming powered by Coca Cola,” added Siebert.

“With the development of this new state-of-the-art ESIX Gaming arena, Six Flags not only raises the bar for the amusement industry but also shows the world its commitment to the gaming category,” said IGN Strategic Partnerships & Innovation SVP Karl Stewart. “Their new arena offers guests unprecedented access to the latest games, technology and favorite teams in an intimate and highly competitive environment. IGN is honored to support bringing Six Flags’ vision to our audiences around the world.”

ESIX Gaming powered by Coca-Cola™ has incredible features coveted by the gaming community:

  • Event Stage – Guests will feel the intensity of live tournaments in a 5v5 gaming format;

  • Razer™ Gaming Stations – In partnership with Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, the ESIX experience will include 50 custom-built gaming PC stations. Guests of all skill levels can play, compete and experience their favorite competitive titles on top-of-the-line Razer gaming hardware. Each gaming PC station is equipped with the latest 4080 graphic cards, 280 Hz monitors, and a suite of Razer gear including their latest keyboards, mice and headsets;

  • Gaming Console Stations – Console competitors will also be supported with the newest next-generation consoles and professional-grade Razer controllers at five console stations;

  • Razer Live Streaming Station – Guests will have the opportunity to broadcast and host their own live content from an ultimate professional livestream setup that includes Razer’s multi-tasking Stream Controller, professional dynamic microphone, Razer’s 4k webcam, key lights and an iconic Razer gaming chair;

  • Bar, Restrooms and Enhanced Amenities – Guests can relax in the ultramodern 52-seat lounge with cell phone charging stations, sip a signature cocktail from the new bar menu or test and purchase the latest gaming equipment;

  • Coke VIP Lounge (second floor) – During events, athletes are able to relax and enjoy the upscale, full-service environment and watch live streaming game play; and

  • Zaragoza Theater – A 1,601-seat, full-sized theater can be used for esports events and game play during large scale tournaments.

ESIX Gaming powered by Coca-Cola™ debuts Saturday, May 20. Visit www.sixflags.com/fiestatexas for updates on this and all the exciting developments for the 2023 season.

About Six Flags Fiesta Texas

Six Flags Fiesta Texas, The Thrill Capital of South Texas, is home to more than 60 rides, shows and attractions. Opened in 1992, the park was built on the site of an old limestone quarry, which provides a spectacular backdrop for such exciting roller coasters as Dr. Diabolical’s Cliffhanger, The Iron Rattler, Batman: The Ride and Superman Krypton Coaster. In addition, Fiesta Texas boasts an impressive line-up of seasonal events and live entertainment, including Mardi Gras Festival, Fright Fest, and Holiday in the Park.

About Six Flags Entertainment Corporation

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company and the largest operator of water parks in North America, with 27 parks across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. For 62 years, Six Flags has entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed rides, thrilling water parks, and unique attractions. Six Flags is committed to creating an inclusive environment that fully embraces the diversity of our team members and guests. For more information, visit www.sixflags.com.

About IGN

IGN Entertainment is one of the leading Internet media companies focused on video games and entertainment. IGN reaches more than 288 million monthly users around the world, and is followed by more than 51MM social and YouTube followers. With an extremely engaged audience, watching over 566MM minutes of content monthly. IGN also publishes daily content on 34 platforms including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat Discover. Established in 1996, IGN is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Sydney and London. IGN content is localized in 25 languages and 112 countries and hosted on websites and native applications on mobile, connected TV, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms. For more information, visit IGN.com and follow @IGN on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

IGN Acquires Global Strategic Partnerships And Innovation Agency 1TwentyFour

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IGN Acquires Global Strategic Partnerships And Innovation Agency 1TwentyFour To Expand Its Media Offering Across The Company’s Portfolio Servicing More Than 100 Countries and 250 Million Monthly Users Around the World

New integrated agency grounded in storytelling and data-rich insights is part of an aggressive agenda to translate innovative partnerships into profitable growth across a diverse portfolio of clients on over 35 platforms

1TwentyFour Co-Founder Karl Stewart Begins New Remit as Senior Vice President

Los Angeles, CA, October 11, 2022 - Online media giant IGN, a world leader in games and entertainment media, has acquired global independent strategic partnerships agency 1TwentyFour. The acquisition will allow the world’s premier brands, studios and storytellers to connect with millions of fans across more than 100 countries and 250 million monthly users around the world on over 35 platforms. Established in 2017,  Los Angeles based agency 1TwentyFour will operate as a stand alone  division within IGN. Co-Founder Karl Stewart will serve as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Innovation and will continue to lead 1TwentyFour. Stewart will report to Yael Prough, Executive Vice President and General Manager, IGN. In his new remit, Stewart will work across the entire IGN organization to establish and develop strategic partnerships and business offerings for new and existing film, television, gaming entertainment, QSR, CPG, automobile and technology clients across eCommerce, media, social engagement and WEB3. The acquisition is a forward-thinking business decision for both companies, allowing them to leverage their shared resources and strengthen their service offering to clients. Stewart begins his new post, effective immediately. He is based in San Francisco.

“1TwentyFour is an incredible agency that is founded in relationship building, trust and storytelling across the entire entertainment industry,” said Prough. “I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Karl for over a decade both on the client and agency side across film, television and gaming. I’ve seen first hand, their passion and commitment for innovation across multiple campaigns for clients including HBOMax, Marvel’s Avengers’ and Netflix. Our combined vision is for 1TwentyFour to continue supporting and growing their current portfolio with full access to our reach and data while also bringing their services into the mix across the entire IGN portfolio to support the ongoing growth of the business. I truly believe our two companies will bring the industry a new and unparalleled combination of services in today's evolving media market.” 

“As the gaming, film and TV landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, marketing and media teams are eager to develop ground-breaking and innovative campaigns designed to cut through the noise,” Stewart said. “Over the last few years, some of the most groundbreaking campaigns have been collaborations with the world’s biggest consumer brands. Our vision is to couple IGN’s proprietary consumer data and consumer reach, alongside our passion for storytelling and matchmaking to help brands and studios align on developing meaningful, targeted and results-oriented campaigns across traditional media and into areas such as WEB3 and the ever evolving concept of the Metaverse.”

1TwentyFour helps the industry better understand how consumers are engaging with content and brands on a global scale.  They create partnerships for studios, networks, gaming, publishing, mobile and streaming companies to attract deep fan engagement through a measurement standard that compliments traditional tracking and ratings. These partnerships add exponential value to their clients’ intellectual property and franchise libraries. 1TwentyFour has launched strategic campaigns for some of the most popular entertainment content producers and successful brands in the world, including AT&T, DC Comics, Marvel Studios, DELL, Discovery, HBOMax; Fever, Creator+, Mattel, Netflix, Peacock, Square Enix, WarnerMedia, Wizarding World and others.

One of the first big collaborations already in the works between both companies is the upcoming launch of the AAA survival horror game ‘The Callisto Protocol’ (Striking Distance Studios and Krafton), releasing on Dec 2, 2022. Both IGN and 1TwentyFour are working with the development and publishing teams to help create a groundbreaking campaign that is focused on supporting their vision and ambition for creating a next generation transmedia experience for players firmly centered around a core gaming experience.  

“Individually IGN and 1TwentyFour are valued strategic partners who understand our IP, know our customers, and have had a big impact on our campaign for The Callisto Protocol,” said Kevin Kimball, Vice President of Marketing, Striking Distance Studios. “We’re excited to see what happens when these two companies come together under one roof.”

IGN Entertainment is one of the leading Internet media companies focused on video games and entertainment. Part of Ziff Davis, Inc., IGN reaches more than 250 million monthly users around the world, and is followed by more than 54MM social and YouTube followers. With an extremely engaged audience, watching over 400MM minutes of content monthly, IGN also publishes daily content on 35 platforms including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat Discover. 

Established in 1996, IGN is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Sydney and London. IGN content is localized in 20 languages and 110 countries and hosted on websites and native applications on mobile, connected TV, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms. 

MEDIA CONTACT:

Kelly Kimball | 310.701.7773

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IGN Launches New Playlist Feature

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Los Angeles, CA, April 8, 2022 - Gaming is one of the most enjoyable hobbies on the planet, and if you’re like us at IGN, you’re also playing an ever-growing amount of games, in more places than before. But with hundreds of games on subscription services, and new titles being released every single month, how do we keep up, and how do we know what the heck we’ll like?

So we’ve spent the last year bringing our product and engineering teams together, gearing up to help gamers make sense of it all, and are ready to get it in your hands. We call it: IGN Playlist – a place for all of your games, across the major platforms.

We know gamers are trying to organize their libraries through homebrew solutions in spreadsheets and notes documents, and Playlist is built to leverage the scale and reliability of IGN’s vast catalog of titles from the past 25 years of gaming. We wanted to create a product people could trust to house their libraries, and help them discover, track, share, rank, and curate lists to share with their friends. Check out the areas of Playlist below to get an idea of how it all works.

Discover — Discover is Playlist’s homepage for finding new games. It’s updated weekly to surface interesting lists, new and upcoming games, and other fun and interesting categories to help people find their next favorite game or keep up with what IGN’s covering.

Library — Any game on IGN can be added to user libraries. Playlist users can track what they want, own, play, pause, beat, and quit. They can share the game, add it to a list, and more.

Playlists — Playlists are a great way to curate, share, and rank games. Users can create ranked and unranked playlists, and share playlists to social media, Twitch profiles, Discords, and more. IGN Playlist also aggregates the hours of game time of user lists, powered by HowLongToBeat.com

Community Ratings — Playlist lets players rate what they liked, and what they didn’t about games they play. People can select from a number of descriptors and aspects of games so they can remember their experiences. Games with enough ratings will show the most loved aspects of a game.

Guides — Any time someone marks a game as “playing”, Playlist will automatically include available IGN guide content in the “My Guides” page to provide quick access to game help, to help them make it through their backlog.

IGN’s Product vision is to help people enjoy more games, movies, and shows, and share their experiences with each other in fun, inclusive ways. From learning about games through our editorial coverage to saving time with IGN’s game guides, IGN Playlist is the next step in your gaming journey.

About IGN

IGN Entertainment is one of the leading Internet media companies focused on video games and entertainment. IGN reaches more than 288 million monthly users around the world, and is followed by more than 51MM social and YouTube followers. With an extremely engaged audience, watching over 566MM minutes of content monthly. IGN also publishes daily content on 34 platforms including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat Discover.  Established in 1996, IGN is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Sydney and London. IGN content is localized in 25 languages and 112 countries and hosted on websites and native applications on mobile, connected TV, and Xbox and PlayStation platforms.  For more information, visit IGN.com and follow @IGN on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

The Roku Channel Adds New Linear Channels to Lineup

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SAN JOSE, Calif.- Aug. 17, 2021 - Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) today announced its linear lineup has expanded to more than 200 channels, with a total of 17 all-new channels launching this week on The Roku Channel. Starting today, users will be able to watch 16 linear channels spanning across a wide variety of genres. Additionally, as a special treat for streamers, a new linear channel dedicated to The Wiggles will go live on August 19, in celebration of Kids & Family’s second anniversary. 

“Roku is rooted in creating better streaming experiences for our users, using our brand pillars of ease, value and choice to guide us,” said Ashley Hovey, Director, The Roku Channel AVOD. “The demand for free, quality programming continues to be of importance to our streamers. We’ve seen linear streaming explode over the last year and we’re very excited to offer an all-new lineup of great channels with some of the most-recognized franchises to our users.” 

The Roku Channel first launched live/linear programming in 2018 and today it is a core part of The Roku Channel experience. Since its launch in 2019, Kids & Family experience on The Roku Channel has seen exponential growth. In Q2 2021, Kids & Family programming on The Roku Channel was streamed by more households than any other AVOD kids and family stand-alone channel on the Roku platform. 

New Free Live/Linear Channels  

The Roku Channel now features more than 200 linear AVOD channels spanning a broad range of free content including news, sports, kids and family, lifestyle, Spanish language entertainment, and more, will be available to users in August. Starting today, the new linear channels available on The Roku Channel include: 

  • AccuWeather Now

  • Baywatch

  • CBC News

  • El Rey

  • Estrella Games

  • Filmrise Horror

  • FimRise Kids

  • FilmRise True Crime

  • IGN

  • Mega Noticias

  • RCN Más

  • Real Madrid TV

  • So...Real

  • The Only Way Is Essex

  • Tribeca Channel

  • The Wiggles powered by Loop Media, Inc.

  • Vivaldi

Launched in 2017, The Roku Channel is the home for free entertainment on America’s No. 1 TV streaming platform based on hours streamed (Hypothesis Group, April 2021). The Roku Channel saw robust growth with streaming hours more than doubling year-over-year in Q2 2021. The Roku Channel licenses and distributes content from more than 175 partners and features an expansive library of 40,000+ free movies and television programs. In addition to Roku devices, The Roku Channel is available on Web, iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TV and select Samsung TVs and can be accessed internationally in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. 

For more information, visit https://therokuchannel.roku.com.  

About Roku, Inc.  

Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and TV-related audio devices are available in the U.S. and in select countries through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with service operators. Roku TV™ models are available in the U.S. and in select countries through licensing arrangements with TV brands. Roku is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. U.S.A. 

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us on the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements include but are not limited to the content, benefits, features, timing, and availability of the live linear lineup and Kids & Family programming on The Roku Channel; trends related to TV streaming; and the features, benefits, growth and reach of The Roku Channel and the Roku platform. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports Roku, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2021. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on Roku’s website and are available from Roku without charge. 

Roku is a registered trademark of Roku, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this press release are the property of their respective holders. 

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Roku, Inc. 
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areyes@roku.com