LiveGamer Launching Marketplaces With Acclaim Games, GoPets And InstantAction.com

Live Gamer announced today that it had partnered with Acclaim Games, GoPets and IAC's InstantAction.com to launch player-to-player marketplaces for real-money trading of virtual goods. GoPets is moving first, launching a closed beta of Live Gamer Exchange today. InstantAction.com will beta the market with several games in December, and Acclaim will launch a beta for 9Dragons in Q1 2009. For the free-to-play games, taking a cut of player transactions offers another way into a virtual goods market that Live Gamer puts at $2 billion...