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EA's 'Spore Origins' Arrives for iPod First

Monday August 25, 2008 2:55 pm PDT by Arnold Kim

EA's Spore Origins has arrived for the Classic iPod and iPod Nano [iTunes link (not compatible with iPhone or iPod touch)] well ahead of its multiplatform launch scheduled for September 7th.

The $4.99 game offers an early look at Spore Origins which is also expected for release on the iPhone and iPod Touch soon. EA describes the gameplay:

Eat or be eaten when you play SPORE Origins on your iPod. Guide your spore through its evolution and shape its destiny. Devour smaller creatures, explore primordial worlds filled with bizarre organisms, and avoid larger, lethal life forms. Grow from single-cell to complex predator as you rise through the levels. Customize your spore, and watch it move to the tunes in your iPod. Battle friends by importing their spores into your iPod from the Sporepedia website.

Spore Origins was expected to be released across the iPhone, Nintendo DS and other mobile platforms on September 7th. Spore Origins is a smaller companion game to the desktop version of the game called Spore.

Apple demoed Spore as one of the many examples of iPhone apps that could be developed with the SDK.

Update: A couple of early adopters (see discussion thread) are having trouble getting the game to run.

Update 2: Apple has pulled the game from the App Store.
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Rojo
45 months ago
Woah...what?

THAT was totally unexpected. Looking forward to the iPhone/Touch version in the coming weeks, though...
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Tastic Bycrom
45 months ago
That's bizarre - I was guessing games for the iPod Classic were dead.
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Xian Zhu Xuande
45 months ago
Hell yes. This is the sort of development I wanted to see on the platform. I'm surprised the price is going to be so low on the iPhone/Touch? It probably won't be anywhere near as low on other platforms. I can hear it now... people whining about price anyway in feedback. "Should be free!" cry the inbred masses in unison.
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Aeolius
45 months ago
I'd really like to see flOw on my iPhone, though.
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Small White Car
45 months ago
Well, I'm sure multi-touch is harder to design for.

That said, I'm not sure why they didn't just hold this version until both versions were finished. I'm sure they'll get lots of complaints from iPhone owners who see articles like this, don't read the fine print, and get annoyed when they can't figure it out.
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tny
45 months ago


EA's Spore Origins has arrived... but for the Classic iPod and iPod Nano [iTunes link (not compatible with iPhone or iPod touch)].


And, according to iTunes Store, iPod fifth generation (i.e., iPod with video).
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macshill
45 months ago
This news warrants Page 2 News Discusssion placement. No biggie. :)
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Rhosfelt
45 months ago
I cannot wait until this comes out for OS X :)
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nick004
45 months ago
It really refreshing to see a product being released on so many platforms and that the release dates are so close together. Is EA getting the butt-kicking they need to finally do something good for the gaming industry?
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nagromme
45 months ago
That IS odd! I had to read twice before I realized this it not the Touch/iPhone.

But I guess even if Apple stopped making Classics/Nanos today, there are still a TON of them out there to buy games for--plus a ton of 5th gens.
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