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IDG Entertainment Selects Best Buy(R) as Exclusive E-Commerce Provider; Relationship Also Provides Best Buy Customers with Access to IDG Entertainment's Authoritative Gaming Content.


OAKLAND, Calif. -- IDG IDG International Data Group
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 Entertainment (IDGE IDGE Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment
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), the world's leading interactive entertainment-information provider, today announced that it has selected Best Buy Co., Inc. to be its exclusive e-commerce partner for its network of gaming-information web sites.

The agreement states that IDGE will provide users with convenient links to Best Buy's e-commerce site from product pages across its network of web sites -- the third-largest games-information online network in the world -- which includes Games.net, GamePro.com, GamerHelp.com, GameDownloads.com, and BlogFaction.com.

"We are happy to provide the burgeoning community of game buyers who visit the IDG Entertainment Online Network with instant access to the industry-leading discounts and customer service that Best Buy delivers," said IDGE President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Daniel Orum. "It is Best Buy's ability to provide a complete selection of new games, hardware, and accessories as well as music, movies, and consumer electronics for today's technology-savvy consumers that make them the ideal e-commerce partner."

Under the agreement, IDGE will also provide Best Buy shoppers with access to authoritative product reviews, previews, cheats, codes, downloads, and videos from GamePro's highly respected editorial team.

The agreement also includes the recently announced GamePro Level-2 subscription, available exclusively in the video games See video game console.  department at Best Buy stores nationwide, which includes special offers with hundreds of dollars in savings annually on video games, PC games, gaming hardware and peripherals at Best Buy stores.

About IDG Entertainment

For over 17 years, IDG Entertainment (IDGE) has led the industry by providing a portfolio of highly read multiplatform gaming magazines and web sites. Print products include GamePro magazine, Star Wars Insider Star Wars Insider is the official Star Wars magazine. It contains stories, articles about things from the Star Wars universe, letters, Bantha Tracks which is the fan newsletter, and more.  magazine, Code Vault magazine, and the IDG Entertainment Industry White Paper. The IDG Entertainment Online Network, the third-largest gaming-information network worldwide with over 9 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions.  per month (comScore MMX (MultiMedia EXtensions) A set of 57 additional instructions built into the Pentium MMX chip for improved multimedia and modem performance by performing mathematical operations on multiple sets of data at the same time (see SIMD). , 12/05), includes Games.net, GamePro.com, GamerHelp.com, GameDownloads.com, and BlogFaction.com. The portfolio provides synergy between print and digital properties, reaching over 10 million consumers monthly. Information on all of IDGE's properties is available at idg-entertainment.com.
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