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TOKYO, July 8 - Japanese videogame maker Square Enix Co Ltd said ithad launched its first game for Apple Inc's iPod, broadening itstarget hardware to the top-selling media player.

Square Enix, known for such blockbuster titles as "Final Fantasy"and "Kingdom Hearts", began offering the "Song Summoner: The UnsungHeroes" roll-playing game this week in Apple's iTune store.

The game goes for $4.99 in the United States, 4.99 euros ($7.84) inEurope and 600 yen ($5.60) in Japan.

Unlike some

iPod games, which are modified versions of mobile phone games, "SongSummoner" was developed exclusively for iPod and is designed totake advantage of the machine's functionality.

A game player picks a song stored in the iPod and the songdetermines the types and abilities of the fighters in the game, or"Tune Troopers".

There is no sales target for the game, a Square Enix spokeswomansaid.

Shares in Square Enix slipped 1.5 percent to 3,280 yen in lateafternoon trade in Tokyo, outperforming the Nikkei average whichfell 2.5 percent.

($1=107.06 yen)

($1=.6367 euro) (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by BrentKininmont)

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