[2] InfoSources, which Sapet had started as an Internet service provider in 1995,[2] had branched increasingly into content creation since 1998, and had purchased the magazine publishers Pressimage [fr] and Freeway in April 2000.
[4] As part of InfoSources' merger with Belgacom, its content division was split off as Ixo, which successfully went public in December 2000.
[12] Ixo served as the publisher of the video game magazine GameLive PC,[13][14] which began circulating in Spain during October 2000.
[13] It switched to a monthly schedule in France after its third issue, by which time its national circulation had reached 60,000 copies, Ixo reported.
[17] GameLive PC received praise from outlets such as MeriStation, whose writer Francisco Alberto Serrano remarked that it "overshadowed even a magazine so settled in Spain as the dean Micromanía".