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GDC organisers have announced three new sessions, including a star-studded panel with some heavyweight names.

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Tony Davis, the director of Crytek gladiator Kinect game Ryse, has joined ngmoco Sweden, GI.Biz is reporting this morning. Davis worked on the original Far Cry and both Crysis games as well as Ryse in his time at Crytek. Also joining him is Vesselin Efremov, an ex artist working for Crytek on an unknown project at its Black Sea studio. It’s the third Crytek member to jump ship to ngmoco Sweden – headed by ex-EA Easy GM Ben Cousins – having already gained ex-senior development director at Crytek, Senta Jakobson.

Today’s little nibbles span all five food groups – social, mobile, promotional, Japanese, and fish.

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ngmoco’s announced that ex-EA Easy boss Ben Cousins is to lead the company’s new studio in Sweden.

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Former EA executive and ngmoco founder Neil Young has said that EA is best handling the growing importance of non-traditional publishing, while Activision are poised to topple.

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Neil Young, the founder of American-based publisher of iOS and Android games, ngmoco, feels Microsoft is sitting in a better position with Xbox 360 than Sony with PS3.

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ngmoco boss Neil Young has predicted an unceremonious future for NGP, saying the device will be “dead on arrival” when it launches.

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THQ Wireless and ngmoco has announced Star Wars Imperial Academy exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch.

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iPhone developer ngmoco has been bought by Japanese social games comapny DeNA for $400 million.

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ngmoco co-founder Neil Young has said Rolando 3 has been canned because it wasn’t part of the developer’s plans to make its games “free-to-play”.

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Sega of America president Simon Jeffery has left to take on a role as chief publishing officer at ngmoco.

The iPhone developer and publisher was formed by EA’s Neil Young last year.

Jeffery has been with Sega since 2003.

ngmoco just announced it’s secured $10 million in B-round funding.

The mobile games firm, headed up by ex-EA exec Neil Young, was formed last year by Young, Bob Stevenson, Alan Yu and Joe Keene.

The company is behind iPhone and iPod Touch games Rolando, MazeFinger, Topple, Topple 2, Dr. Awesome, Dropship and Word Fu.

More on Edge.

Speaking in his GDC Mobile keynote, ngmoco co-founder Neil Young has said that iPhone is the “most important device” he’s owned.

Young called the phone “better than the DS, better than the PSP,” because it’s “always on, always with you,” and, “most importantly from a business standpoint, there were no first-party games.”

He added: “”Don’t let the haters tell you it sucks compared to the DS or the PSP. It doesn’t. It’s good. It’s clear that the quality of iPhone games is eclipsing its [portable] console counterparts, and that’s even more acute when you compare it against the prior generation.”

Three million more words about mobile games on Gama.

Ngmoco founder Neil Young has confirmed that two sequels are on the way for iPhone game Rolando, speaking in his GDC Mobile keynote today.

The first one, Rolando 2: The Quest for the Golden Orchid, will be released in June.

Young said it will be “a whole new game” complete with four worlds, 36 levels and “a bunch of new mechanics and features”.

Sounds awesome. We’ve quite literally never heard of Rolando. Still. GDC Mobile, eh?

More on Eurogamer.

With Electronic Arts in his rearview mirror, what’s Neil Young up to now?

“I am going to create a next-gen mobile games publisher, specifically and initially focused on the iPhone,” he said.

Titled ng:moco (Next-Gen Mobile Company), the new publisher hopes to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique delivery system – circumventing brick-and-mortar shops altogether.

We just wonder if any refrigerator magnets were hurt in the making of that name.

By Nathan Grayson