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In an exclusive Develop interview, Peter Molyneux has candidly confessed that Lionhead lacked focus and was wasting money before Microsoft acquired it – but says now, a year after selling the company, the studio is in great creative shape.

Lionhead's Peter Molyneux, VFX guru Peter Chiang, SCEE, Rare and Blitz are the first to declare their support for the Develop Conference and Expo 2007.

The free PDF of the latest issue of Develop - which includes an exclusive interview with LittleBigPlanet creator Media Molecule - is now available for download.

GameHorizon and Game Republic will flesh out three key issues for UK games developers - market competitiveness, value games and new business models - at their joint event taking place next month.

Former Guerrilla chief Martin de Ronde’s charity development initiative OneBigGame, plans to set up a casual games portal hosting titles made by famous designers.

SPECIAL REPORT: The story behind Sony's work to build a new virtual Home for gamers – and how developers can contribute.

Codemasters has been praising mocap partner Audiomotion for its work using Vicon cameras on the recently released Brian Lara Cricket 2007.

Australian games developer Auran has secured a AUD$4m capital investment from China's CDC Games to boost the production of its online game Fury.

MTV-owned developer Harmonix has unveiled its first solo project since its acquisition - and the game is a multiplayer collaborative music game.

Former Remedy co-founder and MD Samuli Syvahuoko has formed a new studio in Helsinki, Finland that will work exclusively on games styled on disaster movies.