G5 Entertainment has announced the release of Success Story for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Success Story takes a time management style game and combines it with an arcade style game to bring fast paced fun to the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Players will need to think quickly and touch fast to keep the customers happy and give them what they want. Players will manage burger shops in all different types of locations. Bonuses will be given to players that can serve the customers quickly and accurately. There are even boss levels that will challenge players, but also give them great rewards, should they beat the boss.

Success Story offers ten different burger restaurants that offer twelve different burger components and 140 different recipes. Players will be challenged by seven different mini-games and ten different bosses. Sounds like enough game play to keep gamers entertained for a while.

If you like time management games, check out Success Story.

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Big Head Games and Dark Horse Comics have announced a lite version of The Terminator for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The lite version gives players a chance to experience a few levels and see what the game is like for free. The lite version will allow players to save their high scores to the leader boards.

The Terminator puts players in a prequel to the Classic Terminator movies. Players have to attempt to locate John Conner and the Time Displacement machine. The Time Displacement machine will allow the main character to go back in time and save Sarah Connor from the T800. All this takes place in a shooter style game.

Read my review for The Terminitor here.

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Pentanimals is a Tangram type puzzle game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The goal of the game is to take the provided animal themed shapes and build those shapes into the provided picture. Pentanimals is based off the ancient chinese Tangram games, which are often used in classrooms to teach spacial relationship. Pentanimals is geared towards 5 – 9 year old children, but that doesn’t mean an adult can’t get enjoyment out of the game. 

The age requirement really depends on your ability to recognized how shapes fit together to form a bigger shape. If you are good at this type of game, you may find the puzzles provide a good challenge, but are not too hard. If you are not good at this type of game, you may need help solving the puzzles made for nine year olds. The setting is really a 9+ setting, so adults can be challenged.

The game starts out by displaying a big shadow of a shape in the middle of the board and provides smaller shapes on the sides of the board. The smaller shapes need to be put together to form the bigger shadow shape. Players need to be able to visualize how the pieces fit together to solve the puzzle. The player selects a piece by dragging it onto the board. The piece can be rotated, by tapping the piece, or flipped, by double tapping, to fit in the right spot on the board. If you can’t figure out where the piece would fit, have no fear, just double tap on the puzzle board and you will be given the placement of one piece.

Pentanimals encorporates a bright animal theme into the game. All of the pieces have animals on them and the animals are cute and bright. They are inviting to children.

Pentanimals may be geared towards 5 – 9 year old children, but that does not mean adults won’t find the game fun and challenging. This game appeals to both children and adults and some of the 9+ puzzles were challenging. If you are into Tangram type games or have a child that likes to steal your iPhone/iPod Touch and play games, you definitely need to check out Pentanimals.

Popcap has announced the upcoming release of Peggle Nights on Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA). The game has taken into account the XBLA player and includes all of the levels in the PC and Mac versions. The XBLA game is an expansion to Peggle and players can obtain the game via downloadable content. XBLA players get access to multiplayer modes, which will only be found in the XBLA game.

Peggle Nights is a expansion to Peggle and contains many of the same characters, but an entirely different story line. Players will be able to tackle sixty new levels in multiplayer mode or in single player story mode. Players will, aslo, encounter a new Peggle Master, Marina. Of course, no XBLA game would be complete without achievement points and Peggle Nights will include 50 new achievement points bringing the Peggle total up to 250 poits.

“The addictive and fun gameplay of the Peggle franchise translates extremely well when tuned for the XBLA platform,” noted Sukhbir Sidhu, co-creator of Peggle and studio chief at PopCap.  “Since launching earlier this year, Peggle for XBLA earned top awards from industry critics while taking full advantage of the XBLA multiplayer format to deliver an incredible gameplay experience.  Peggle Nights essentially doubles the size of the Peggle XBLA universe for players everywhere.”

Peggle Nights will be available this fall on Xbox Live Arcade.

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NinjaBee and Grubby Games have teamed up to bring The Amazing Brain Train to Nintendo WiiWare this fall. The Amazing Brain Train won an award at the 2008 PAX 10 conference.

Players are taken on a tour through Professor Fizzwizzle’s world. The player will play through fifteen different types of mini-games all challenging their brain. The train players are taking the tour on is powered by brain power. The better players do on the puzzles the more power the train will have to navigate around the world. Players can play in three different modes, quest, test and practice.

“This is no ordinary brain game,” said Ryan Clark, co-founder of Grubby Games. “The Amazing Brain Train contains features never before seen in the genre. It’s a departure from the minimalist brain games we’ve seen in the past. You can forget about goal-less gameplay: The Amazing Brain Train is packed with quests, trophies and high scores that add an aspect of gameplay that other brain games just don’t have.”

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