THQ has announced a new time management game set in the Las Vegas strip, Casino Chaos. In Casino Chaos, players run the floor of a Las Vegas Casino and take on the role of the boss who specializes in turning around hotels and businesses. Your goal is to get customers gambling to make cash to bankroll bigger and better casinos.

Casino Chaos includes high rolling features such as:

* 10 challenging levels of addictive, skill-based game play;
* 10 different types of customers to deal with;
* Five themed hotels to choose from: Egyptian, Medieval, Caribbean, Rock & Roll and Roman;
* Five mini games: Roulette, Slots, Red Dog, Black Jack & Craps.
* Bonus: Double down with a game of Black Jack at the end of each level and earn even more money to purchase upgrades!

Check out Casino Chaos at Big Fish Games here. Right now, there’s a sale on the unlimited version for $6.99 (normal price is $9.99), or try the game out for an hour before buying.

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.

GameHouse has announced that Jessica’s BowWow Bistro, the sequel to Jessica’s Cupcake Café, is now available on their site exclusively for two weeks. The time-management game is basically Diner Dash aimed at kids.

In Jessica’s BowWow Bistro, Jessica expands her restaurant biz by founding a series of bakeries that cater to doggie pets. The game has the player placing and fulfilingl kitchen orders, baking doggie delicacies made from real life organic recipes, creating menus, and earning cash to get upgrades and expand the bistro before time runs out. As is the staple of the time-management genre, the player has to do this within an allotted amount of time. The game features over 50 levels.

System Requirements

* Windows 7/Windows XP/Windows Vista
* 1 GHz Pentium 3 or equivalent
* 1024MB RAM
* DirectX 9.0

Jessica’s BowWow Bistro is currently available at GameHouse here, and will go into wide release on July 13, 2011.

TeamLava has announced the upcoming release of Zoo Story for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Zoo Story is the next hit Story game. Players get a chance to manage their own Zoo. The animals are from the jungle, the ocean and beyond.

Players will need to attract animal loving people to their zoo. They will have to build attractions to lore the people in and let them have fun while they are there. Not only will players need to attract customers, they will have to grow crops to help feed the animals in there zoo. As players play through the levels, they will be able to unlock different types of animals for there zoo including mythical animals such as unicorns.

If you like animals and time management style games, check out Zoo Story in the Apple App Store.

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G5 Entertainment has announced the release of Jane’s Zoo for the iPhone. Players can now take the time management game with them on the go. The goal of the game is to help Jane save exotic animals. Jane will travel to Africa, Asia and Europe to help save the animals.

Players will experience thirty nine different levels through three different settings. As with most time management games, players can earn cash to upgrade their zoo and make things easier on themselves.

If you are a time management game fan, check out Jane’s Zoo in the Apple App Store.