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Nvidia and software company The Game Creators have teamed up for a competition open to would-be game designers.

A new mobile games development studio called Shadow Light games, formed by former Elixir staff, has opened its doors.

New games development technology company Instinct has signed up to be exclusive EMEA distributor of Engenuity's AI.implant middleware.

It's clear that even the services sector of the development industry is no stranger to consolidation, following the news that QA companies Testronic Labs and PMTC are to join their operations.

A team of former Gameloft and Activision developers have joined forces to open Massively Mobile, a new wireless games studio.

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.