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PlayFirst and
Mind Control Team Up to Create the Next Generation of
Downloadable
Games
SAN FRANCISCO, At the 2005 Game Developer's
Conference, PlayFirst, the leading
full-service publisher of popular games,
today announced that it will publish several new downloadable
game titles from
Mind Control Software.Born in 1868, Dr.
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game developers
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will publish the highly-anticipated game
Oasis(TM), a casual strategy game that took top honors in
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in
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