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With help from Sony's tech group, Codemasters has built a brand-new next-gen engine called Neon - and in a curious move it will even power new 360 games.

More changes are afoot for EA UK Studios as it readies for the closure of its Warrington base – with its big Chertsey and Guildford teams set to merge.

North East games development association GameHorizon has scored a talk from Xbox software design engineer Bruce Dawson for its November event.

Britsoft firm In2Games plans to introduce a wireless, evolved version of its Gametrak peripheral which it is touting as the ultimate way for developers to implement motion sensing across multi-format titles.

Now that its former Racing Studio is completely under Disney's ownership, Climax is set for a studio  reorganisation with a big expansion of the UK operation on the cards and 70 vacancies up for grabs - but its Santa Monica office will shrink.

As it puts out a last call for exhibitors, organisers of the Game Connection event have revealed that over 300 development companies will be involved in December's event, taking place in Lyon, France.

Electronic Arts' studio based in the North West of England is to close.

Computing giant Intel could be on the verge of acquiring graphics manufacturer Nvidia, according to Wall Street speculation.

Independent games developer association TIGA will unveil a middleware special interest group at next week's London Games Festival.

Electronic Arts has thrown its development weight behind Nokia's new mobile games platform, and has a number of new games in the works for the service's 2007 launch.