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More and more studios are looking towards licensing existing technology to help them produce their game. But how do you choose which engine, and is it really the panacea it may seem?

Emergentâ??s game engine now part of Nintendoâ??s third party tools programme

Microsoft pushes Mizuguchi, Sakaguchi, and Itagaki produced games at Tokyo event

At the Yebisu Garden Hall, Takashi Sensui, general manager of the Home and Entertainment Division at Microsoft took to the stage of the Xbox 360 Briefing 2007 to showcase the number of forthcoming titles available on the platform and show the support it is enjoying from the Japanese development community. …

With interest from all over, the recent Epic vs Silicon Knights court case has been one of the biggest games development stories of recent months.

New features include animation and 'true sculpting' capabilities

New games device must also be a "credible phone" if launched, says SE president

WBIE founder's new company producing animated series using Epic's game tech

MCV sister mag Develop reports that Denmark’s Deadline Games is planning for a major ramp up of its production capacity after signing a massive deal with Eidos for ten new games. The three-year agreement covers ten games based on characters taken from the Hanna-Barbera studio licensed to Eidos by Warner …

Danish studio set for expansion as it signs three year deal to make multiple Hanna-Barbera games