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The Game Developers Conference has been running all week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Instead of looking at one app this week, we will be looking at a few upcoming mobile games that were previewed by Touch Arcade at the event. You can see Touch Arcade's full coverage of GDC 2016 here. Here are a few highlights from the conference.
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Adult Swim has done it again with the first mobile musical, Peter Panic. In Peter Panic you're an aspiring young director who wants to reopen the small theater in your hometown after it was shutdown due to mysterious circumstances. The goal of the game is to sing your way through various mini-games to earn cash and recruit staff for your theater company.
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Today is the day Dropbox officially shuts down its email client Mailbox. Starting today users will no longer be able to login to the Mailbox app, and all user data will be wiped from Dropbox's servers in 30 days. For those of you who missed the memo and did not already find a replacement email app we suggest, Spark.
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Jigsaw puzzles are great for holidays, family gatherings and for passing the time at home alone, but they're not the best option for on the go entertainment, until now. Join It - Jigsaw Puzzle for iOS devices allows you to do easy to complex puzzles during long car rides, while waiting for the bus or train or while you're stuck at the airport. The app offers over 300 puzzles (500 on iPad) to choose from with a variety of features that makes it much more than a simple jigsaw puzzle game.
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KnowMe is a new short movie making app created by documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans and The Jinx). The app promises to make filming and editing short videos on your iPhone "radically easier" by simplifying the process with its own proprietary interface. Users of the app can add narration to photos and videos from their Camera Roll, search and use images from the web, include a soundtrack from a selection of music and more.
