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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".

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.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Q Entertainment is to make another Live Arcade title that updates a PSP game for the service - this time its Every Extend Extra that gets the XBLA treatment.

Microsoft has today revealed that it now has some six million subscribers to its Xbox Live service worldwide - and the giant has hit this figure four months ahead of schedule.

Develop is looking for an online editor to help further expand the brand's international reach.

Game Developers Conference organiser CMP has confirmed that it will host a Korean GDC in September.

Hansoft has rolled out v4.3 of its project management and collaboration tools - and the new version has already been licensed by Creat Studios.