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- GDC Europe To Take Place At 2009 GamesCom
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Games On Deck parent Think Services has announced its flagship European event, Game Developers Conference (GDC) Europe for August 17th-19th 2009, alongside new German consumer games event GamesCom, with former GCDC head Frank Sliwka joining Think Services to run the event.
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- Hands-On Releases Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile
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Developer Hands-On Mobile and Activision Publishing launched Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile with 15 songs available at launch and bonus tracks planned for monthly release. A version for Google's Andriod platform is also coming January 2009.
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- Report: VG Mobile Closes European Office
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Vivendi Games Mobile (Surviving High School, Cake Mania 2) announced that it has closed its European office and terminated its contracts with partners as a result of parent company Vivendi Games' recent merger with Activision.
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- GDC Mobile Announces 2009 Focus, iPhone Lectures
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Organizers for March 2009's GDC Mobile summit have revealed a focus on emerging platforms such as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, as well as initial speakers from EA and Indiagames, for the mobile-specific game event taking place on the first two days of GDC 2009.
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- Best Of FingerGaming: From Aurora Feint to Dr. Awesome
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Every week, Games on Deck sums up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's nascent portable games platform -- this time covering the highly anticipated sequel to puzzle/RPG Aurora Feint, two new ngmoco announcements, and Newtonica2 from Skip Ltd. co-founder Kenichi Nishi.
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- THQ Wireless Releases Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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THQ Wireless announced the release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a mobile game based on the Cartoon Network animated series and starring a clone trooper as he leads a squad and fights droids over 15 missions and three different planets.
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- Mpowerplayer Brings Its Games Online With Mplayit Portal
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Mpowerplayer, a mobile game trial solutions provider, launched Mplayit.com, a web portal enabling consumers to try out free mobile game demos. The site also offers widgets that let users embed the demo anywhere else online, like a YouTube video.
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- Namco Networks Releases Brain Exercise
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Namco Networks announced the release of Brain Exercise, a casual mobile game officially tested by Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, the Japanese neuroscientist who helped develop and appears in Nintendo's Brain Age series for the Nintendo DS.
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