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The influence of Sega amongst the development business is still rising - and now the company says it wants more acquisitions and games signings.

The recently inaugurated EA team in Chicago is planning to significantly grow its work force for next-gen games development.

As the GDC 07 opens registration - revealing support from a host of dev companies - executive director Jamil Moledina has said the March event will cater to everyone in the industry while also focusing on development's "core values".

Pandemic Studios has founded a second development team at its studio in Brisbane, Australia.

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.