Worms for the iPhone submitted to Apple

Everyone's favorite battling invertebrates are coming to the iPhone and iPod touch very soon -- the game was actually announced a little while ago, but Team 17 now says the game has been sent off to be examined by Apple's eyes, and so, as long as it doesn't have any objectionable content (you can't object to exploding sheep, right?), we'll see it up for download very soon.

Exciting. Unfortunately, I'm coming off of a Worms 2 purchase on Xbox Live, so I'll probably be passing on this one, but if you haven't had a Worms fix in a while, the video on the next page shows what Team 17 is saying over on their Facebook page: it's "a full console-style experience," with extra options, including probably the ability to play your own music as you play. Multiplayer will only be pass-to-play to start with (bummer!), but they're hoping to add in both Internet and Bluetooth local multiplay at a later date. And there's no official word on price yet, but we should know it soon: look for Worms on an iPhone near you.

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnbXmBQNNkE

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Tamar Weinberg

"including probably the ability to play your own music as you play"

Do you find it ironic that this is a selling point for applications nowadays? Apple should've thought about that and made a universal-wide application-muting option or something. I vented about this on getsatisfaction.com:

http://getsatisfaction.com/apple/topics/iphone_and_ipod_touch_application_shortsightedness_heres_a_common_sense_suggestion

July 15 2009 at 11:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

vittolix

actually there's this fully working worms-like game available for Mac for months http://www.hedgewars.org/
supports multiplayer (on all three platforms) and has a very strong development/community behind

i sent this in a couple of weeks ago, but noone seems to have liked it

July 12 2009 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

It's in the store now, I'd say it needs a few tweaks, but it's great.

July 12 2009 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stefan

The one and only iPhone game I have been waiting for! Finally!

July 12 2009 at 3:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

I want it now!

July 10 2009 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

DENIED.

July 10 2009 at 1:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

smitty

How is it possible they're putting this out for the iphone and we've had no Mac update for this? Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for this, but I've been trying for years to get this to work with no luck. Parallels, VMware, nobody has a good solution.

July 10 2009 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Shane

Same here. I couldn't even get hedgewars to work. I still hope in time team17 will release a worms game for the mac.

July 11 2009 at 12:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lucion

Worms 2: Armageddon is coming to Mac: http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=17955

July 11 2009 at 12:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Beanie

Not sure why Team 17 couldn't include Multiplayer over Wifi OR 3G.. Star Hogs is an awesome Worms-like game and it has Multiplayer over Wifi, 3G and EDGE. iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320408597&mt=8

July 10 2009 at 1:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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JKT

Very likely to be time and resource constraints. I bet they're trying to just get a basic version in the store which will then give them time later to add features like multiplayer.

July 10 2009 at 4:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

Thanks for the link. Downloaded it. I'll get Worms too.

July 10 2009 at 4:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Ochs

Can't wait! Oh, and your embedded YouTube clip is broken here "Invalid parameters."

July 10 2009 at 1:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Inginious

Nice!
I've held off on getting the PSP version because i knew it would
have to eventually come to the iphone... it just made sense... hope it's
under $6

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kraus

Now we just need scorched Earth on there! If they're clever theyll have bluetooth gaming in it.

My first own Iphone APP that helps you avoid sunburn:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=317734922&mt=8&uo=6

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