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Namco has announced the upcoming release of Tinseltown Dreams: The 50′s for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Players get a chance to make a movie of their very own by matching three of a kind of movie items.

Players get money as they make matches. The money can be used to buy different people that make a movie. There are categories of people and the player gets what they pay for. The more money they spend will buy the top notch people, but it may take longer to get the movie out and accumulate that money. There is a balance between a good movie and getting it out on time.

The acute reader may be thinking this game sounds really familiar and they would be correct. The game has appeared on the PC and is now being adapted to the iPhone/iPod Touch. Now users can take a great game with them where ever they go.

If you like match three games, check out Tinseltown Dreams: The 50s in the Apple App Store when it becomes available in the next few weeks.

Valet Hustle is an arcade style game or the iPhone/iPod Touch. The game is a cross between a time management style game and a puzzle game. Players have to park cars as fast as possible and then retrieve the cars when the customers show back up for the cars. Players have to manage the customers, manage parking the cars and retrieving the cars.

The cars won’t drive in until there is a spot for them to pull into. There is one spot to drop off the car and if that spot is full the cars will start lining up and eventually get mad and start honking their horns. As soon as the front car is moved to a spot, another car will fill the drop off spot. The cars are moved by tapping on the car and then tapping on the spot where you want to park the car. The cars will drive themselves to the spot the player clicked on unless there is another car in the way. There can only be one car driving on the path at a time.

When the cars are ready to be picked up, the player will see a customer appear and their car will get a number above the car that is theirs. The numbers are in order and the cars need to leave in that order. In other words, player can’t click on the number 2 car before bringing back the number 1 car. The player taps on the car with the number on it and then taps on the drop off space to return the car to the customer.

The story surrounding the game is a bit different. The story focuses on a lesbian theme and the main character gets kicked out of school for kissing another girl. This was not the first school she got kicked out of and her father had had enough and made her go to work as a valet and that is how the valet career began. If you would rather not play a game with a lesbian/gay theme, you may want to consider another game.

Over all, Valet Hustle is fast moving and will pass the time. There are levels, but the game doesn’t really stop until you lose, sort of like Tetris.  Eventually, you get a helpers along the way that will make things a bit easier, but the game is not easy by any means. The game gets fast and hectic and will keep players challenged. If you are into puzzle/arcade style games, check out Valet Hustle in the iTunes App Store.

Gamers can do many different things on the Nintendo Wii, but now they can use the Nintendo Wii to earn a virtual black belt in karate. THQ will be releasing All Star Karate, in the spring, for the Nintendo Wii.

Players of All Star Karate will have an opportunity to earn their black belt. The main character in the game attempts to save an old man that is being attacked by Ninjas. The fight introduces the main character to the sensei that will teach him the ways of karate. Players will have to master karate moves using the Wii remote and nunchuck. Players will earn 7 different colored belts including a black belt in karate. Once players have mastered their techniques, they can battle each other in Combat mode.

If you like karate or want to learn some moves, check out All Star Karate when it is released this Spring.

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Mike Breslin has joined MumboJumbo’s executive management team. Mike Breslin is not a stranger to company management and has worked for Oberon Media/I-Play, Mattel, Disney Interactive, and Ion Storm and now he is bringing all that knowledge to MumboJumbo.

Breslin will be in charge of marketing and online efforts. He will attempt to make MumboJumbo even bigger than they already are. Breslin had a similar position over at Oberon Media so he is no stranger to marketing.

We’re very excited to welcome Mike to the MumboJumbo family,” said Mark Cottam, CEO of MumboJumbo. “He’s going to be spearheading our marketing and online efforts, as well as working with product development to create new brands, and we’re excited to see where he takes the MumboJumbo franchises.”

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THQ announces the upcoming release of Beat City for the Nintendo DS. Rhythm games have become popular over the last few years and there are all sorts of different takes on the genre.  Beat City is one such game that puts their own take on the rhythm genre.

Beat City has become dull and boring and it is up to the player to restore the city to the vibrant, melodious city it once was.  The player revives the city by playing a collection of mini-games that require the player to use the stylus to tap, swipe or hold on queue to the beat in the music. There are twenty different mini-games to challenge the rhythm of the user.

Beat City will be available in the Spring of 2010.

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