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Some questions still remain as to how soon Microsoft's recently launched Vista OS will deliver as a games platform, but a team from Glasgow already has one answer - it's casual game is one of the first available for the operating system.

EA has stepped up to distribute Pandemic's next-gen title Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, putting an end to some speculation that the studio may distribute the PS3 title itself.

SCE Worldwide Studios VP Michael Denny and other key Sony Liverpool personnel have commented on the direction the company plans to take as both format-holder and software developer as the network-enabled PS3 establishes itself.

A team of students from Teeside have teamed up for a graduate business within the Tees Valley's DigitalCity project called Twisted Studio - and the gang is already talking about of licensing out its games development toolkit.

Trip Hawkins, founder of EA and 3DO and the current CEO of mobile games publisher Digital Chocolate, will present the opening keynote during March's GDC Mobile.

Activity behind Nokia's new N-Gage platform is progressing at speed according to reports hitting the web, with the SDK shown off and studios such as Foundation 9 signed for first-party productions.

3D graphics company Softimage has partnered with Electronic Arts' Chicago studio to build a game development pipeline built on its XSI animation software.

China's share of the world's outsourcing market will be worth over $1.3bn next year, says a report from a leading US research firm.

Sony's Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison will present the opening keynote at March's Game Developers Conference, promising to discuss 'the third age of video games'.

The wraps have been thrown off Austrian studio Games That Matter at a press conference in Vienna today, to reveal that the company put together by the founders of Rockstar Vienna will aggresively pursue a 'Hollywood model' approach to games development.