You rewarded IGN for that bad title today, and so they will continue to write them that way.

IGN doesn't care about our title rules, nor does any other major publication. I've consistently removed submissions from a variety of mainstream sources for problems in their titles (which is frequently identical to the generated title feature that users use when submitting) for a long time now and their behavior hasn't changed.

Perhaps you should consider that the reason they don't get reposted is that the submitter doesn't care about the news, but the source.

Not sure what you mean by this, all that we'd want is a fixed title. We don't stop users from resubmitting the same link with a fixed title. My point about that was simply that it does affect the content that appears on the sub since most users don't bother to resubmit after having a submission removed. That doesn't mean either we should be lax about rules because of that fact, it just means I don't feel your argument about the "frequency of news being posted" being unaffected with more stringent enforcement is valid. Less news would be on the sub, which is already the case with current rule enforcement.

To be clear, in the future, had I reported that as a vague title would you have removed it? Because if you wouldn't have, then that's the problem.

It's a firm "maybe", also factoring in what I said before. We can't mind read. Sometimes people report things as vague and I have absolutely no idea why they reported it as vague. Different mods can have different standards as to what constitutes a vague title and makes a submission worthy of removal.