The iPod isn’t just something used for playing music you know? It can provide you with entertainment with podcasts, motivate you while you’re exercising, and even act as a games console. Sure, it’s not a PlayStation Portable or a Nintendo DS, but it’s a great piece of kit that plays cheap games, and a new game has been announced for it from Square Enix.

Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes is a new game being released specifically for the iPod, rather than the iPhone. It’s a roleplaying game where you take control of the character ‘Ziggy’ (not the guy from the last series of Big Brother). Ziggy is on a quest to rescue his brother (which I guess may be his big brother). The great thing about this game is that you can create characters based on the music stored on your iPod. Presumably then you’ll get a fearsome Elton John monster at some point?

The game uses the click wheel to control the characters and is only $4.99 from iTunes.

The game works with 5th generation iPods, the iPod nano with video and the iPod classic.