In recent news, IGE has purchased a number of MMORPG information/fansites and placed them under one giant umbrella site called ZAM.com.


IGE is a corporation who dubs themselves "The Leading MMORPG Services Company". They are mainly known for their buying and selling sites for massively multiplayer online game (MMOGs) virtual currency and assets on the Internet. In otherwords, you can buy in game money for real life money, an action which is against many games' license agreements (EULA).

You might even recognize some of the fansite names such as Allakhazam and Ogaming.


This was posted on Allakhazam's forums.

Allakhazam is pleased to announce that we have added several new sites to our network and have joined them together to form the Zam.com Network which is now instantly the leading content destination for all MMO gamers.

The new Zam.com Network will consist of newly expanded and improved versions of Allakhazam.com and Thottbot.com. In addition, the assets and content of OGaming.com (and the interface sites) and L2Orphus.com will be integrated into the existing Allakhazam network. This will add multiple new games to our site, more than double our personnel and give us the flexibility to add more features, better service and expanded coverage.

Check out the rest of the post on Allakhazam's site right here.

So are these sites selling out or are they "just paying the bills" so to speak?


I'll let you be the judge. Feel free to post about it here in our forums.