Developer G5 Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing a series of business strategy simulations called Fix-It-Up for iOS devices. The first installment, Fix-It-Up: Kate’s Adventure, will be available for iPhone and iPad starting September 22, 2011. The game had originally been released on PC, where it enjoyed significant popularity, being in the top ten best selling charts of nearly all major casual games portals for two months.

In Fix-It-Up: Kate’s Adventure, gamers play as auto repair workshop owner Kate, who is tasked to run a profitable business. Part of that job is cleverly balancing resources while making the right business decisions at the right time.

When Kate returns home after the college, she finds her father’s auto repair workshop in financial trouble. Kate decides to revive family enterprise but she needs your help – so roll up your sleeves and get to work! Apply your business skills to make this work: fix broken cars, construct and operate a tuning shop, a bodyshop, a disassemble pit, and more! Explore six exciting locations as you expand the franchise from arid Nevada to glamorous Hollywood.

The game features 70 achievements which can be shared on Facebook and Apple Game Center friends. When the player completes the game and achieves expert’s status throughout, two additional modes become unlocked: “money challenge” and “time challenge”. In addition, players are rewarded with a bonus level. These additional levels will task players with fixing up a harvester, police trucks, buggies, taxi cabs and even a helicopter.

The series is interesting in being aimed at female users with a woman in the non-traditional industry of auto repair. It’ll be interesting to see how the game scores on iOS towards the younger female market.

The game will be released on iTunes for iPhone and iPad in two weeks, check out the official page here.

Sony has announced that 4 Elements, which had been released on PC, will be heading to the PlayStation Network with Move support.

The game is a color-matching game in which you tag consecutive colored blocks to make them disappear. Players can earn points to personalize their own castles for friends to see.

Check out the trailer below for the game.

Ubisoft has announced Just Dance Kids 2, a child-friendly version of its popular dancing game Just Dance 2. The game will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii. As expected, the game will utilize each system’s motion controller; the 360′s Kinect, the PS3′s Move, and the Wii’s Wii Remote.

Just Dance Kids 2 will feature more than 40 songs, including “Love Me,” “Whip My Hair,” “Just The Way You Are,” and popular songs from kids’ favorite TV shows and movies, such as “Burnin’ Up,” “Barbara Ann,” “Shake Your Groove Thing,” and the YouTube hit song, “I Am A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song).” The game will also feature updated remixes of children’s song standards like “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” and “The Hokey Pokey”. The game will include lyrics in multiple languages.

“Just Dance Kids 2 provides families and kids of all ages with exciting new features building upon those elements that first made the game a success,” said Tony Key, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Ubisoft North America. “For the first time, Just Dance Kids 2 will be available on all three motion control platforms, making it a must-have family title. The game will get kids active and moving while bringing the entire family together, laughing and dancing in their living rooms.”

Just Dance Kids 2 will be released on multiple platforms 25th October, 2011.

Forbes Magazine is reporting that an inside source told them Zynga offered $1 billion in cash to acquire PopCap Games, who turned the deal down to accept a more complex but potentially more lucrative deal from Electronic Arts, which included $650M in cash and $100 in Electronic Arts stock, as well as another $550M contingent on company performance over the next two years.

The EA deal could potentially pay out $1.3B.

Zynga’s potential offer would have been financed in part by a line of credit supplied by Goldman Sachs. Forbes also notes that their information on Zynga had them just shy of $1 billion in cash on its balance sheet.

Zynga has issued a no comment on its involvement with Popcap.

Tech Cruch is reporting that Electronic Arts is about to acquire casual games giant Popcap Games for a cool $1 billion, which would exceed EA’s market cap by over 13%. If true, this would be EA’s definitive entry into the casual games market, a field they broke into 7 years ago.

Despite consuming a significant chunk of EA’s reserves. buying Popcap would bring them IPs such as Bejeweled, Plants Vs. Zombies, Peggle, Zuma and Bookworm.

We’ll keep an eye on this deal as it happens.