IGN Entertainment Hack 6.5.0 + Redeem Codes

Well first I’d like to say I’m great full for what your company and employees do for the gaming community as a whole. With that said your app could do with fine tuning. After my initial choice of content it’s hard to go back change my choices. A better tutorial on your settings would be nice, and also a way to go back a see that tutorial again if I need it would be great. As far as the content of your product. I would say it’s excellent from my per view. Only negative I could give would be that most of your reviews seem to start from a personal view point and stay that way until the end of the article. It might just be my personal view but a review is supposed to be facts and info followed by a personal opinion at the end, maybe two or three different opinions. Well sorry for the long winded review. I hope someone reads this and I hope I see some of feedback from this as well. Sorry for poor sentence structure. Lol 😆

I don’t typically write reviews, especially bad ones, but the IGN app has went from great to useless. Previously I used the IGN app almost daily to look up game guides or specific game news (and more), which I always searched for on the app using the “search” feature. The latest update stripped the app down to nothing but a “News” page, a “Video” page, and a “Profile” page (if you create an account).
The news and video pages can only be scrolled through and refined to basic categories like “games” and “TV.” The search feature has been completely removed. Not only is there no way to search for news or information on a specific topic, there’s also no way to search for a specific article I read a few days ago, other than endlessly scrolling.
Articles can still be added to favorites and viewed from the profile page, but I don’t want to favorite every article I read just for the small chance I might want to reference it later - I want to be able to search for it if I need to.
I genuinely hope IGN listens to their users and releases an update soon that brings back the search feature. Search options are such a basic and necessary feature for any news-type app, and IGN’s app is quite a downgrade without it.

Update…. App has just got worse in the months since I posted the review. Now on the rare occasion I do see a relevant article that I’m interested in the app just crashes every time I try to open the article. Finally just deleted the app. So disappointed as IGN has been my only source for movie, tv, and video game news for almost a decade. This is absolute garbage and it seems the developers have no intentions of backtracking on whatever this disastrous new format is. Would downgrade to negative 5,000 stars if possible.

Original: I have been using the IGN app for several years as my go to place for all media news, but this new update to the interface has rendered the entire app basically unusable. Nothing seems to be in any particular order, I’ll see 3 articles from various times throughout the current day and then the next 7 articles are from 2-3 months ago, and review posts are so broken they don’t even display the number out of 10 for the review when the same review on the website is displayed completely and correctly. Would give zero stars if possible.

Hey, I really enjoy looking through the ign content and it has been my go to for game info for probably a decade. With that being said I have had to revert to using the website version (which I feel is serviceable at best) because the newer iOS app is a disaster. *Edit: originally the app was a disaster because it crashed and wouldn’t scroll correctly. Now those problems are corrected. However worse and more insidious problems came with it. I’ve had to turn off cellular data for the app because it will blow through all of my data while running in the background. All in one night. I just wake up to a flood of texts saying I’m at 25% of my data, 10% data, 0% data, etc. Very worrisome. Turning off cell data helps this but at home when I’m connected to wifi it still runs through data and I wake up with a low battery. What gives? They said this was fixed on the last update but I assure you it remains an issue.

**APP CAUSING OVERHEATING

I have an iPhone 12 pro. The IGN app is buggy, freezes, and eats battery like mobile games do. I had been wondering why my phone kept getting hot and I looked and the IGN app is about 13% my battery over the last 10 days with 2 hours of screen time. The next app was clash of clans with 12% over 10 days and almost 8 1/2 hours of screen time. So the IGN app ate 13% of my battery in significantly less time than clash of clans did and CoC had way more screen time. Next is their video player is so buggy. Also takes multiple steps now to put it in landscape mode when my phone is normally locked in portrait orientation. The video player will play adds every single time, but the actual video I want to see won’t start or freezes after it does. Finally is the app is nice looking but features have been removed and adds auto pop-up now at random times even when I didnt tap to see the add. Im sure this is go drive more traffic to their add partners. Im sorry IGN i really used it daily but now I can’t because the new app is worse.

Ive been using this app for years. Since probably 5 years ago actually. Ive never once had an issue with anything noteworthy, but the last 2 or 3 days, any time i scroll past a Starz ad, it immediately opens my browser and the Starz website. Ive been on this phone for about 6 months & thats never happened before, all of my other apps function as they have for the entirety of my time using them on this phone (excluding updates) but its getting insanely irritating having 5+ Starz ads opening anytime i try to get my daily entertainment news. Im unsure if anyone else is experiencing this, but its starting to make me consider either getting an ad blocker or dropping the app. And im not going to pay for an ad blocker on my phone, so it looks like IGN’s gonna get uninstalled soon if the ads dont stop. I feel like im in the season of South Park with the living ads or something

I have recently updated my iPhone and I’m now running iOS 16.5.1. I noticed that when signing into my account to deo this, I had to guess on where the Apple icon was. This is because the label in this app is not labeled so that voiceover users can tell where the Apple icon is. I had to have someone with vision, help me with this. I’m hoping that this will be fixed in a later update. Also, I’m not getting notifications about video games or other deals that I have selected. When I say deals, I actually mean news items. Not actual deals such as things that are on sale. Sorry for the confusion. I’m hoping that this all gets fixed and another update. I’m also wondering if the IGN app for AppleTV has been fixed since my last review.

I’ve used this app for years now but it’s different than it once was. I can’t sign in to leave comments (no matter how many times I successfully sign in), I get kicked out from ads constantly without ever clicking on any (simply swiping over it when scrolling gets pops me out of the app to an ad), I’ve had some seriously messed up ads that were disturbing(only here, had one pop up back to back while scrolling that was just disgusting), and I’ve had multiple spoilers pop up in their captions that are supposedly spoiler free(guess this one’s actually on them, the rest are weird technical bugs that have ruined the experience for months now). Oh and the amount of ads has increased aggressively, making the issue where they pop you out even worse. I would’ve deleted it if I came up with a gaming news agency that I enjoyed at all.

Once again a new update rolls around and all of my prior bookmarked content gets deleted...Try to add new bookmarked contact then go back to continue scrolling, but instead you restart back at the very top of content then have to scroll through all over again. They attempted to make this slightly better with a quick save by long pressing outside of the article. This worked initially, but it now hasn’t worked in a few weeks. Haven’t rechecked yet, but initial app update when max scrolling content on any tab would cause the app to crash. I love IGN for what they provide like no place else, and have for as long as I can remember, but this is classic problems with a fresh coat of paint.

Edit: save feature finally working again

I love IGN, its employees, and their content. I’ve been using the IGN app daily for years. It has never been perfect, but this newest 6.0 update is quite bad. First, I lost all the earmarked articles and videos I had saved. Not a big deal, but a bit annoying. Second, either the articles under “Latest” are not in chronological order or the time stamps for the articles are very off. Third, the thumbnails are - for the most part - very low quality. As if they had not fully loaded in. Last, it is hard to figure out what is a video and what is an article before you click on it. When you do get to a video, playing it, going full screen, etc seems quite laborious.

I’m all for changing artistic directions, and I do like the cleaner aesthetic, but there are some glaring issues that need to be addressed. Thanks for all you do, IGN!