Global online game publisher True Games Interactive has announced a partnership with secondary trading marketplace provider Live Gamer to support the incorporation of real money trading in the publisher's forthcoming products.

Established earlier this year by former K2 Network publishing and operations execs Jeff Lujan and Bob Drobish, True Games' provides a platform for free-to-play microtransactions-driven titles. The company is currently negotiating several product deals and securing Series A funding. Its first as-yet untitled game is scheduled to launch in Q3 2008. Just last month, True Games announced a partnership with real-time strategy games developer Petroglyph Games (Star Wars: Empire At War, Universe At War) to create an online microtransactions-funded game for PCs.

Live Gamer provides a complete marketplace solution for player-to-player trading of virtual items. With the sales platform, True Games hopes to have a convenient, secure, and reliable outlet to buy and sell virtual goods and objects in its published titles.

Said True Games Interactive chief publishing officer Jeff Lujan: "It is our mission as a company to provide the highest quality entertainment and we can only do that by associating with the highest quality partners and trusting our games to them. Our relationship with Live Gamer represents one of many quality partners you can expect to see aligned with True Games."