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Future’s confirmed to VG247 that 19 staff have been laid off from its US operation today.

“Our colleagues at Future US have today announced 19 redundancies across its teams in San Francisco and New York,” said a UK spokesperson.

“These changes were made in line with Future’s stated strategy of focussing on structure and costs in a severe global economic downturn.”

It’s unknown which sectors of the company have been impacted.

The above statement was issued internally to the company today, and we’ve been directed to the San Francisco office for further details.

Future is the world’s largest publisher of games magazines, which yesterday announced less than stellar circulation figures for its UK books.

It is also the publisher of the GameRadar Network, which contains mainstream sites CVG and GamesRadar.

Future’s claimed that its GamesRadar Network – a group of 16 websites, including GamesRadar, CVG and N4G – is visited by more than 10 million unique users per month.

The figure, said the British publisher, represents a 40 percent increase compared to 2007 traffic.

Future said that the 10 million number was arrived at through “internal HBX and Google Analytics audits”.

ABC figures today showed that Future’s print magazine portfolio saw drops on a majority of titles.

Press release after the break.

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ABC figures have shown that the majority of Future’s games mags dropped in circulation last year, with only the Official PS Mag, PSW and ONM recording any increases.

All the figures, 2007 to 2008, as compiled by GamesIndustry:

• Edge – 31,304 to 28,898
• GamesMaster – 51,389 to 40,940
• OPM – 46,018 to 53,644
• PSW – 21,826 to 24,118
• ONM – 58,754 to 58,795
• OXM – 66,894 to 63,908
• Xbox World 360 – 31,698 to 31,030
• PSM3 – 26,885 to 26,202
• PC Gamer – 38,654 to 32,619
• PC Zone – 22,297 to 19,023

Future’s announced a deal with Panini that will see the second issue of it’s Girl Gamer magazine included in Bliss and Mizz. Girl Gamer is an extension of the UK Nintendo Official Magazine, the first issue of which saw a print run of 340,000. In UK terms, that’s massive.

“The universal appeal and accessibility of Nintendo’s DS and Wii consoles means that more and more teenage girls are playing games,” said Girl Gamer and Official Nintendo Magazine publisher ‘Big’ Lee Nutter. “Future’s partnership with Panini’s Bliss and Mizz magazines gives us fantastic reach into this audience, delivering relevant game content to 840,000 readers of the print and digital e-zine edition of Girl Gamer.”