EA plays with iPhone

As if you needed another reason to buy an iPhone, here’s another one (or three) - you can now get SimCity and Sim3 on you iPhone and Spore will be available on September 7. On top on this, a recent EA press release also reveals that Monopoly, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Need for Speed Undercover are currently in development.

After giving the mobile phone industry a huge kick up the behind, it looks like the iPhone is finally about to take a take a bite out of the mobile games industry. In my books, that puts everyone on notice. Still though, the annoying thing is the data charges here in Australia – how is this going to make online-gaming appealing? With EA putting a lot of money into developing for the iPhone, who’ll follow next and what titles? A word to EA – please think of a way to bring FIFA to the iPhone.   

MyTake – Gaming is surely the next big target area for the boys at Apple and the iPhone is the product to do it on. I remember when the original iPhone first came out and a friend of mine from Gamespot.com.au showed me a very basic racing game – I was totally blown away. A few killer titles, some decent online gaming and we’ll see another market flavoured Apple.  

Internet sporn

There are some guys that achieve things that make you proud to be a man, then there are some guys that go and do things that reaffirm to the world that we are in fact all still little boys deep down. Allow me to elaborate.

There is a new game coming out called Spore which allows you to create you own creatures using various body parts of different shapes and sizes. Now there’s a million and one things that you could do with this game, brought to us by the creators of The Sims, and many interesting creatures that could be created.

However, one of the first things that a teaser pre-release version of the game has been used to do is create, shall we say, “top shelf” style creatures. Appropriately named “sporn”, the first of these creatures was developed by staff at PC Gamer UK, quickly followed by PC Gamer US staff who created a creature that they christened "Boobalicious". Since then there have been numerous example of “sporn” uploaded to community sites, social networks and YouTube.

MyTake – This won’t go away. Could it be a new meme? You betcha. While I wouldn’t say that it’s a creative use of the content, it does continue the trend of the online community taking original content and building on it. In a strange kind of way, it’s a bit like a kinky version of Pokenmon.