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The CEO of animation tool firm NaturalMotion studios has predicated that studios will soon start seeing an acceleration of development timetables – and it’s all thanks to the vibrant tools sector, he says.

Just a day after being named as the leader in our Develop 100, EA has reinforced its place in Canadian games development by backing the Vancouver International Games Summit.

NewMarket China has teamed up with Shanghai-based development studio ArtCoding to form a new outsourcing offer in Asia for North American companies.

Analyst AG Edwards thinks that Take 2's new board will initiate staff cutbacks at underperforming studios in order to get the publisher back on track.

Our widely-discussed list of the 100 most successful game studios is now online to read here.

Electronic Arts’ Canadian studio has once again scored first place in the Develop 100.

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.