Game development news

Just weeks after it confirmed a partnership with Softimage, Electronic Arts has announced it has licensed Autodesk’s HumanIK middleware.

Nvidia has unveiled a new toolkit it says will help developers save money while making their projects DirectX 10 compliant - and the tools already have backing from Crytek and Rockstar San Diego.

Havok's new Behavior tool has debuted at GDC today, and the tech already has a licensee: Codemasters.

The PS3 version of SingStar will hit Europe in June and the US in the autumn.

In his GDC keynote Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison has told the global games community that software driven by user-communities, such as as its new virtual world Home, will "empower the next decade of growth in our industry all around the world".

The first game to capitalise on Sony's vision for ultra-connected user-driven games is Media Molecule's first party game LittleBigPlanet.

Three weeks ago former Gathering of Developers founders Mike Wilson and Harry Miller announced the opening of a new developer-friendly publisher, Gamecock. With one of its first games, Auran's Fury, on show at GDC, we present a Q&A with Wilson to find out more about the new company.

MTV-owned Harmonix has signed up with EA Partners, who will distribute its next title.

Sony Computer Entertainment is working on a number of episodic PlayStation 3 games to be revealed this year, SCEA director of production John Hight has revealed in a GDC session.

Activision has confirmed that it will acquire Irish middleware specialist DemonWare.