Cor. iPods have been able to play games for a while now, but they've been simple, unremarkable titles. Not any more.
As we write this – and as
we predicted two months ago the Pocket Gamer blog – Apple's Steve Jobs is making a series of new product and service announcements, and first on the list was beefed-up gaming capabilities for iPods.
The fifth-generation iPods will be able to play a range of casual games, taking them head-on into competition with your mobile phone as a gaming device. Jobs announced that the games will be sold on the iTunes store for $4.99 each in the US – presumably around a fiver here in the UK, although less if we're lucky.
The first tranche of iPod games for sale on iTunes are as follows:
Bejeweled — The super-popular colour matching game
Tetris — The original and still the best
PAC-MAN — Still scary after all these years
Vortex — A shoot-'em-up
Zuma — Like Bejewelled only this time you slide balls
Texas Hold 'Em — Get into the poker craze
Mini Golf — Holy Apple, it's a golf game
Mahjong — Centuries old tile-matching
Cubis 2 — Another colour matching game, this time with cubes
It is all exciting news, although it remains to be seen if this means some of the other popular mobile games (
Skipping Stone!
Turbo Camels: Circus Extreme! You know it makes sense!) will make the leap to iPods.
Update: We've now launched a
dedicated iPod games section on
Pocket Gamer!
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