Nordcurrent has announced the release of its iOS arcade space game, Sputnik. Named for the first-ever manned spaceship, players have the opportunity to guide Sputnik to the depths of outer space while using tilt controls to avoid meteors, comets and more.

Sputnik is an arcade game, where player guides a spaceship through asteroids and UFOs by tilting his device. Player needs to get as far into outer space as possible, past Mars, Saturn - all the way out of the Milky Way. Player will travel through gravitational fields, black holes, distorted space-time continuum and other tricky places in the galaxy, but he should always remember that the controls remain the same - just tilt left or right!

Sputnik is 99¢ on iTunes.