IDEA: Integration between news articles, the forums, & the Game Database

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News articles have "related games" on the left hand side.
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3714

Also, game pages have links to related news (right below the sales)
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3714

I do agree that related articles should be posted in the news section. You could just pull all the related games related news articles, but I don't know if that would work all that well.

Soon there will be forums for specific games. I don't know the details, but I imagine they will be similar to most other sites that have forums for games. This should show users what threads are talking about the specific games.

As for forum linking thing, I don't see how that is really all that much better than creating a table on your own and pasting the link in there. Yea, some stuff would be automated like including images, but people don't even paste the URL's to the vgchartz news articles now, so would it really be used?

I sort of skimmed your post, so I don't know if I missed any major points.