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Studio management team ISM has teamed up with GDC organiser CMP to put together the conference's first charity poker tournament, supporting the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation.

Just a week after Ubisoft Montreal upped its ambitious expansion plans, Eidos has confirmed it will open a games development studio in the city, creating 350 jobs in three years.

The CEO of Capcom's closed Clover studio has opened a new Japanese development company called Seeds - and he has already populated the team with fellow Clover refugees.

EA will add social networking - and perhaps music games - to its development capabilities thanks to the acquisition of SingShot, a San Francisco-based online karaoke community.

The former executives of Gathering of Developers have established a new publishing outfit, called – bizarrely - Gamecock Media Group.

More details have emerged regarding the expansion of Ubisoft's massive Montreal studio, revealing that a bulk of its hires will be graduates while the firm readies itself for future console generations.

Ubisoft Montreal is aiming to have over 3,000 staff under its roof by 2013 following a deal with the Canadian government - a move which would make it the world's largest games development studio.

The latest entry in our month-long series of profiles examining the biggest, most interesting, and influential studios in the UK and Europe looks at Fuse Games...

It's been a busy week for casual games news, and it's not letting up - Xbox Live Arcade boss Greg Canessa is to leave Microsoft and join Bejwelled developer PopCap, to help build that company's focus on non-PC platforms.

German studio Crytek is hoping to start licensing out its next-gen games tech CryENGINE2 once the software has been shown publically for the first time at GDC this March.