Touch Arcade reports that EA’s action adventure game Mirror’s Edge is coming to iPhone in January. Although originally boasting a first-person perspective viewpoint, with your character sliding under barriers, jumping across ledges, and doing all manner of death-defying leaps and bounds, it’s likely the iPhone version will be closer in character to Mirror’s Edge 2D.
Also interesting is this game will prompt a legal showdown on release. Tim Langdell of Edge Games has forced two indie iPhone games off the App Store for using Edge within their names. In both cases, Apple has complied with these challenges, which has been strictly in compliance with the DMCA, according to commentators. Accusations of mark trolling have led to EA challenging the validity of these marks (source: Kotaku), and any resolution is likely a year away.
When Mirror’s Edge appears on the App Store, Langdell will have no option but to challenge it, under the precedent he’s already set. And Apple will have no option but to pull the game, based on what it’s already done regarding Killer Edge Racing and Edge (now, temporarily, Edgy in the US and UK). It’s one thing when Apple stamps on an indie’s head, but it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when an EA game gets yanked unceremoniously from the store, due to spurious rights-infringement claims. Popcorn at the ready!
