IGN's top 10 nearest neighbors span gaming platforms, comics publishers, and game developers — with no single entity pulling far ahead of the rest, and the mix itself is the finding.

The shape is flat: scores run from 0.97 (PlayStation) down to 0.93 (Twitch), a range of less than four points across all ten positions. Nintendo of America sits at 0.97 as well, and Marvel Entertainment follows at 0.96 — meaning the three closest neighbors are two gaming platforms and a comics entertainment brand, not another games magazine. GameSpot (0.95) and Game Informer (0.93) are the only two neighbors that share IGN's own subcategory (Magazines), and they land at positions four and nine respectively, not at the top.

The subcategory breakdown across the ten neighbors reads: two Entertainment Platforms (PlayStation, Nintendo of America), two Magazines (GameSpot, Game Informer), one Entertainment (Marvel Entertainment), one Game Developer (Naughty Dog), one Entertainment brand (DC Comics), one Entertainment brand (GameStop (social)), one Film Studio (Marvel Studios), and one Social Media platform (Twitch). Gaming platforms and comics/entertainment brands collectively dominate the cluster; fellow magazines are present but not leading it.

The flat shape here signals an audience that moves fluidly across gaming hardware, game media, and superhero entertainment — without anchoring tightly to any single one.