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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.

NaturalMotion, the UK-based animation company that already counts LucasArts and Rockstar as key partners, has today shipped out its new tool, morpheme.

Nokia has scored backing from Indiagames and THQ Wireless as it launches the SDK for its new N-Gage games platform.

A new piece of software developed by Definitive Software and published by Eidos will position Sony's PSP as a piece of professional music equipment.

As GDC begins, Perforce has released version 2007.1 of its fast software configuration management system.