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GameInvest Announces Sarah's Emergency Room for Nintendo DS, Wii, XBLA, PSN and PC

July 8, 2008 - Portugal's leading video games investor and developer, GameInvest, is bringing hospital drama to multiple platforms this summer with Sarah's Emergency Room. Currently in development for Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and PC platforms, Sarah's Emergency Room is a time management and hospital simulation game where players take on the role of a young nurse, caring for patients in fast-paced hospital environments. GameInvest is currently looking for qualified distribution and publishing partners for Sarah's Emergency Room on the various platforms. "Sarah's Emergency Room revives the time management genre with fun, challenging levels and a frenetic pace with simulation management skills," said GameInvest founder and CEO Paulo Gomes. "Our commitment to quality and accessibility shines with beautiful graphics and a pick-up-and-play interface." Sarah's Emergency Room casts players as Sarah, a young nurse who ha

The Expendables

July 8, 2008 - Midway just announced that it would be publishing Mechanic Master, a game designed by Most Wanted Entertainment that went by "Contraptions" before it was picked up by the publisher. Perusing the developer's website, we found that the company is working on another Nintendo DS title: "The Expendables." Here's the breakdown of this work-in-progress game, right from the developer's site: They are deadly, they are confident, they are dumb... and they finally got an assignment. The fate of the world's lamest international private army is in your hands. Can you help them to overcome their weaknesses and accomplish various missions in different parts of the world or their very first job will be the last one, too...? 'The Expendables' is a humorous, squad-based shooter with cartoonish graphics in which the player assumes control over a small private army whose "soldiers" were hired from all over the world. While the game'

Master the Mechanics on DS

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July 8, 2008 - Ever since the Nintendo DS hit the scene, many gamers have been begging for a rendition of that classic PC title The Incredible Machine. While Sierra rests on its laurels, Midway's ready to pounce with its own take on the game design: the company has announced it will be publishing the Most Wanted Entertainment-develeoped Mechanic Master for the portable system, due out this October. Mechanic Master – once known as Contraption – is a puzzle game where players solve more than a hundred physics-based puzzles by utilizing simple and complex machines. Use gravity to make a ball roll down a plank to activate a motor that'll spin gears and raise platforms to keep the mechanism going. The game will be entirely touch-screen driven, so dragging and dropping as well as drawing solutions will be a snap using the stylus. On top of the 100 different in-cartridge levels, there will also be the ability to customize and create puzzles, and send them to other DS owners to try o