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Future Publishing closes popular games forum


12:0117/08/2008Posted by D+PAD Staff5 Comments

Future Publishing has announced plans to close one of the most popular gaming forums in the UK.

GamesRadar, Future’s predominant videogames website, will be closing its UK forum on September 4th to shift focus to the publisher’s US equivalent, RadarNation. The forum, which has been active since 2002, is home to almost 20,000 registered members, many of whom encourage “lively, outspoken, funny, controversial and downright notorious game discussion” a Future representative stated.

This comes as particularly sad news to much of the D+PAD team. D+PAD Magazine originally started out as a smaller project put together by members of the GamesRadar UK forums. We’ll miss you guys :’(

Future is now encouraging its UK users to sign up to RadarNation, but most are instead choosing to register at GRcade.com, a new forum put together by existing GamesRadar users as a replacement to the lost UK forums.

We’ll be there. Will you?

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5 Comments »

  • MCN said:

    Devastating news. I’ve been a member of the forum since 2002, and it’s going to be difficult to imagine surfing the internet without the old GR forum running in a separate tab.

    - 17 August 2008 at 10:43 pm
  • Kaiser said:

    I’d like to drop something on Future’s chest.

    - 18 August 2008 at 11:26 am
  • Tim Greenhalgh said:

    Can’t understand this! GamesRadar spends years building up community and trust, then “upgrades” everyone by shutting down that unique space. Good luck to GRcade.com!

    - 26 August 2008 at 3:27 pm
  • Carmari said:

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    - 1 December 2008 at 3:57 pm
  • snegoviksukablyat said:

    hello
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    - 2 August 2009 at 1:43 pm

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