If you can’t manage to occupy yourself Web surfing, e-mailing or listening to tunes on your iPhone, EA Mobile has just announced a raft of games for the iPod touch and the iPhone. Phone games have become a real phenomenon as more and more mobile devices have abundant screen real estate and processing ability to become a viable game platform. The EA announcement Friday focused on the release of Spore Origins for the Apple mobile market, but the company plus released details of nine other upcoming mobile game titles.

Mobile Spore Origins

It’s not the full-blown evolutionary strategy game you’ll find on the PC and Mac, but EA’s Spore Origins gives iPhone users a taste of “survival of the fittest” by incorporating two modes of play in the mobile version. In evolution mode, players create, edit, tweak and customize their creatures and explore strange worlds. In survival mode, players are prey and predator, advancing through 35 levels of eat-or-be-eaten action.

According to EA Mobile,

the game incorporates the motion-sensing capabilities of the iPhone, so gamers can navigate creatures by tilting and moving the handset (as whether talking aloud on a wireless headset didn’t assemble you look odd enough). No word on whether the mobile version incorporates any of the more sexually explicit features of the main Spore game.

In a statement released by the company, Travis Boatman, vice president of worldwide studios at EA Mobile, said, “We’re really excited to bring Spore Origins to the iPhone and iPod touch. By leveraging the strange capabilities of these devices, players can customize their own creatures and shape their fate in an exciting evolutionary journey.”

In contrast, EA’s full-blown Spore allows for nearly total customization of the worlds and creatures that inhabit them, providing ample opportunity to tweak environment and evolutionary features. Supposedly…

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