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MTV-owned Harmonix has signed up with EA Partners, who will distribute its next title.

Sony Computer Entertainment is working on a number of episodic PlayStation 3 games to be revealed this year, SCEA director of production John Hight has revealed in a GDC session.

Activision has confirmed that it will acquire Irish middleware specialist DemonWare.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Q Entertainment is to make another Live Arcade title that updates a PSP game for the service - this time its Every Extend Extra that gets the XBLA treatment.

Microsoft has today revealed that it now has some six million subscribers to its Xbox Live service worldwide - and the giant has hit this figure four months ahead of schedule.

Develop is looking for an online editor to help further expand the brand's international reach.

Game Developers Conference organiser CMP has confirmed that it will host a Korean GDC in September.

Hansoft has rolled out v4.3 of its project management and collaboration tools - and the new version has already been licensed by Creat Studios.

Digital Chocolate CEO Trip Hawkins has struck out at "exploitative" licence holders in his GDC Mobile opening keynote.

Art tool compant Autodesk will be using GDC for the first public showing for new versions of Max and Maya.