pahroblem on "help with excluding posts from another loop"

Hello everyone,

Was hoping someone could guide me on how to exclude posts in a loop that appeared in another loop on the same page.. here is an example of our front page.

http://ptscr.com/bqoeuz

As you can see the first area is the latest articles from throughout the website and the 2nd area is just the latest news..

here is the code..

<div id="featured-topics">
<?php $count = 0; ?>
<?php $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 4, ); $posts = get_posts( $args ); ?>
<?php foreach (array_chunk($posts, 1, true) as $posts) : $count++; ?> <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?> <div class="column-<?php echo $count; ?>"> <a class="featured-<?php echo $count; ?>" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" style="background-image: url('<?php the_post_thumbnail_url( $size ); ?>' )"> <div class="featured-box"> <h2 class="featuredheading-<?php echo $count; ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?> </h2> <p class="featured-date">By <b><?php the_author(); ?></b> | <?php the_date(); ?></p> <p class="date-underline"></p> </div> <!-- featured-box --> </a> </div> <!-- column/featured --> <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div> <!-- Featured Topics -->
<div id="row-container">
<h2 class="main-heading">Latest game news</h2>
<div class="article-loop">
<?php
$args = array(
'post_type' => array( 'post'),
'posts_per_page' => 4,
'category_name' => 'news',
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
<?php $count = 0; ?>
<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php $count++; ?>
<?php if ($count == 4) : ?>
<div class="featured-article">
<a href="<?php echo the_permalink(); ?>"> <div class="featured-thumb">
<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'plant-thumb');
?>
<span class="article-overlay"> <h4 class="article-item-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h4> <p class="featured-date">By <b><?php the_author(); ?></b> | <?php the_date(); ?></p> <p class="date-underline"></p>
</span> <!-- article-overlay --> </div> <!-- featured-thumb -->
</a>
</div> <!-- featured-article -->
<div class="ad-holder">
<div class="item-ad">
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- 300 x 250 -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7568065840567088" data-ad-slot="1234194857"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>
</div>
</div>
<?php else : ?> <?php get_template_part( 'content-basic' ); ?> <?php endif; ?> <?php endwhile; ?> <?php endif; ?>
</div> <!-- articles-loop -->

How would i get it so that the latest news loop doesn't include the posts from the featured articles above it?

thanks in advance!