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I can't find any other reference to this online, but if it's true (and it wouldn't surprise me in the least, IGN's basically the most money grubbing network on the entire internet and killing off freely hosted content seems like a popular thing for them especially), a lot of internet gaming history could suddenly be lost. In particular, I'm thinking of PlanetDeusEx, which hosts like 90% of everything regarding DX, it's old community, it's production, and modding tutorials on the internet, particularly the Universal Constructor, and Witchboy's Cauldron, written by Harvey Smith himself.
