iGame Radio

Fans of time management sims might want to give Fix-it-up: World Tour for Mac a try for an unusual spin of the genre. G5 Entertainment has released the game onto the Mac today, and unlike many time management games, this one takes you out of the retail business and into car repair. Blend that with some romance around the world and you’ve got the mechanics dream game.
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Today we look at G5 Entertainment’s sim/strategy The Island: Castaway, Avaloid’s platformer Air Jump, and the Lost Little Zombie by Rockupied.
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Today we look at the release of Treasure Seekers 4: The Time Has Come by G5 Entertainment and Zuma’s Revenge by PopCap Games, as well as new songs for Michael Jackson the Experience.
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Today Omaha reviews the iOS games Royal Trouble: Hidden Adventures by G5 Entertainment and Boy Loves Girl by Grubby Hands.
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Today, we look at the Valentine’s update for Scribblenauts, G5 Entertainment’s release of Royal Trouble, and Ladia’s Running Sheep: Tiny Worlds.
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Our friends at G5 Entertainment have promised a big game lineup for 2012 at CES, and in keeping with that have sent us their list of iOS games to come out for January. They promise intrigues, mysteries, magic, stories of prince and princess, and some criminal cases to solve. But no All-Night Food Marts. Ah well.
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G5 Entertainment, the “new game a week” people, recently announced the release of Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand That Feeds for Mac OS. Special Enquiry follows New York Detectives Cathy Turino and Brody Lamont as they attempt to solve the murder of a wealthy benefactor’s daughter. Who done it? We don’t know, but you can rest assured that the solution will involve the rotation of puzzle pieces and the location of many obscure objects in some amazingly messy rooms.
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The sequel to G5 Entertainment’s city simulation and time management game has been released for Windows and Mac. Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort is available on the Mac App Store for download today.

Virtual City 2 expands city building to multiple locations from Florida and Alaska, to Utah and Nevada. Each location has unique missions to complete along with special goals, such as launching a Casino or building a Ski Resort. All told there are 50 missions to finish, building over 70 types of buildings. There are new production chains to master as well so you can supply various buildings with over 40 types of products.

You must also find the right balance between a good Jobs rating a satisfying Happiness rating. Learn to make your cities more eco-friendly through reforestation and building recycling centers, and entertain them with parties. But keep up the work by giving them jobs to do.

Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $9.99, and requires Mac OSX 10.6.6. or later to play.

Paradise Beach for iPad is a tycoon-style click management game where you design, build, and manage some of the world’s leading beach resorts. The game includes “Where’s Waldo” style hidden object hunts, two game-play modes, and a plot declared interesting by the developer. The game is a freemium download, with in-app purchase of $4.99 to upgrade. Based on comments on iTunes, what you download is a lite version, and the $4.99 buys the full game.

Total Eclipse is a tabletop RPG system that has been formatted specifically to work on your iOS or other smart phones/tablet devices. Developed by Disrupted Gears and set to publish by ShrapnelGames, the system is meant to allow for regular level advancement in microsteps, as well as an attribute system that supposedly eliminates min-maxing and encourages actual role-playing. The first four books in the system will be formatted for any eReader, so not just those with smartphones or tablets can read them. And if enough interest is shown, print-on-demand will occur. The game system will be released before the end of 2011, and a call for beta testers has already gone out.

Fix-It-Up: Kate’s Adventure by G5 Entertainment was released today. Though the storyline is quite stereotypical, the plot is a little different from most time management games. Kate must learn to fix cars and other vehicles and manage the shops to save her father’s auto business. The game includes six locations with 10 different types of cars and several different modes to play with. Fix-It-Up: Kate’s Adventure can be found for iPhone, and an iPad version is also available. The game downloads for free, but requires a $2.99 in-app purchase to unlock the full game ($4.99 for iPad).

Alawar Entertainment has announced the release of Farm Frenzy 3 for all iOS devices. The third installment of the popular franchise debuted on the PC/Mac in 2007 with new character Scarlett who travels to Africa, South America, and other locations to help her friend unseat the greedy president of the Farmers Union by earning the trust of the community and winning the next election. The farming sim has players managing local farms, collecting produce and manufacturing goods, including breeding unusual and exotic animals. Alawar is promising add-ons that will take Scarlett to other locations and even time periods, it seems, such as Farm Frenzy 3: Ice Age and Farm Frenzy 3: Madagascar. The game is going for $2.99 for the iPhone/iPod Touch version, and $4.99 for the iPad. Lite versions of both are also available to check the game out for free.

Not to be outdone, G5 Entertainment has also released the next installment of their popular burger sim, Stand O’Food 3, which, despite the number three, is actually the sequel to the original. Available on all iOS devices, Stand O’Food 3 follows Ronnie the Chef as he travels to Tinseltown and disrupts the plans of evil Mr. Torg. G5 has integrated to a small degree the stories of Stand O’Food and Supermarket Mania so that characters from each appear in the other’s game. So you’ll see Nikki and Mr. Clarence in here as well. The game is free for all platforms, but you must use in-app purchases to unlock the full game: $4.99 for the iPhone and $6.99 for the iPad.

Last but not least, Bulkypix, in conjunction with GlobZ and Revo Solutions, has released Globulos Mania for all iOS devices. You control Globulos, which are funny and colorful little creatures who live in your garden within the game, as they compete against each other in games combining elements of sports, arcade and strategy genres. Though the game has a single-player mode, the multiplayer mode is the big attractor, supporting WiFi, 3G, and even hot-seat switching. The game is universal for all devices, and is available for free, with an in-app purchase for a premium pack of $4.99.

• Farm Frenzy 3 HD
• Stand O'Food® 3 HD
• Globulos Mania