IGN Teaming Up With Facebook’s Watch For New Animated Series

This is actually more important than you might think.

I don’t like this trend of entertainment websites coming producing their own scripted content because it creates a bias and thereby shreds away any sense of journalistic integrity when coverage of other series in the ilk come to pass. For Fusion, a network that has had animated shows on its network over the last several years it’s their acquisition of AV Club that now makes that site useless for what it’s original intent was, for Syfy it’s NBC Universal’s acquisition of Blastr to create the SyfyWire, and now here comes IGN to do something similar to what The Hollywood Reporter did last year unsuccessfully, produce an animated series.

When THR created an animated series, it was shit, but the website seldom reviews animated shows, so it really didn’t have critical integrity regardless in that area. For IGN.com, a site that for several years has declined in know how in covering the animation industry preferring to star fuck shows that get popular over time or features an A-list actor associated with Breaking Bad. 

Enter IGN’s new series coming to Facebook Watch this fall called IGN Brick Battles: A stop-motion animated series, Brick Battles will bring your favorite gaming worlds to life.

The concept actually sounds entertaining, however, after this series premieres, IGN will officially have no credibility when it reviews other animated shows. Why? Their reviewers are paid by the same company that produces the aforementioned series, making it a conflict of interest when features like “Top Cartoons” or “Best Animated Series” type features. Not that IGN’s lists were very good anyway, but Brick Battles officially put a nail in IGN’s credibility coffin when it comes to coverage of animated television.

For those that don’t know, Watch is Facebook’s next big feature that will, in fact, be a place for original video content. The company actually put out a whole teaser of what it wants to do with Watch here

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