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NCsoft is piloting the UK’s first Apprenticeship in Quality Assurance and Games Production, in partnership with City College Brighton, PartnerTrans and Skillset.

Jane Cavanagh, the CEO of SCi, has told the Financial Times that the UK government should consider giving tax breaks to games companies to match the deals offered by Montreal and Australian authorities.

The University of Portsmouth is the latest college to join NaturalMotion's Academic Partner Program.

German developer SunFlowers and its Anno strategy game franchise have been acquired by Ubisoft.

The production of EA's Tiger Woods franchise has been moved from its Redwood Shores studio in California, USA to its Tiburon outfit on the other side of the country, in Florida.

The switch from single to multi-threaded coding may still be causing headaches for some game programmers - but studios are getting much better at making games for multicore processors, says Intel.

There's just one month left for studios to put forward their nominations for the 2007 Develop Industry Excellence Awards.

Red 5 Studios, the team founded by former World of Warcraft developers, has signed up game designer Scott Youngblood.

How Sheffield Hallam University helped Sumo Digital make a splash on the PlayStation Store.

The team behind LittleBigPlanet, Media Molecule, has been discussing the background to its eye-catching game in an exclusive Develop interview - and has plenty of good things to say about host format PS3.