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Future Publishing makes investment for N4G

Global community bookmarking site joins Future's GamesRadar Network

Future US, a publisher of special interest magazines and websites, has made an equity investment into leading games news social media company N4G (http://www.n4g.com/) for an undisclosed sum, it was announced today by Future US publishing director Simon Whitcombe.

The N4G network will join Future US’ GamesRadar network of sites that includes GamesRadar, FileRadar.net, Gloob.tv, OXMOnline and the soon to be re-launched PCGamer.com.

“N4G provides an important news content aggregation element to the GamesRadar Network as well as excellent social media functionality,” explains Whitcombe. “It expands our offerings not only to our huge consumer base of gamers, but also to our growing roster of advertisers.”

“We are very excited about our newly formed partnership with Future US,” said Vegard Aure. ”This gives us a chance to grow our capabilities and traffic for what we feel is one of the web's premiere social spots for gamers.”

So does this mean another gaming independent gone the way of commercialisation? What do you think? is it good for the gaming community for the big corporates to control most of the media? Have your say in the comments or the forums.