Apple Said to Be Working on New Gaming App for iOS

Tuesday October 22, 2024 1:17 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Apple is working on an App Store-style app designed for gaming, according to a report from 9to5Mac. It would merge App Store gaming content, Apple Arcade, and Game Center into a central location.

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The app is said to feature a Play Now tab with gaming content and suggestions, plus a Game Center tab for tracking game progress and games that friends are playing. Game Center features like achievements and leaderboards will be highlighted.

Apple plans to offer both ‌Apple Arcade‌ games and ‌App Store‌ games in the app, and the company will promote gaming events and details about important updates. It is possible that there will be integration with FaceTime and Messages for remote play with friends, as well as App Clip mini game demos.

There is no word on when Apple might release this dedicated gaming app.

Tags: App Store, Apple Arcade Guide, Game Center

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Top Rated Comments

Chungry

23 months ago

Imagine being Apple, and walking along, coming across the fetid corpse of a horse called “Apple’s attempt at getting into gaming” and gaslighting yourself into thinking that this time it will be different.

Also, the zombie of Game Center makes an appearance. Like, really?! Is it April 1st?

Come on Apple, you don’t and never will get gaming so please go spend your time, effort, and Smaug’s-hoard of cash on something worthwhile. Let me suggest:

-improving developer relations
-fixing your shoddy software
-making the AVP a solid standalone experience for something other than media consumption
-being even-handed, and sensible when it comes to the App Store rules and approval process
-investing in a way to leave China and thus your dependency on a ruthless regime that abuses human rights
-come up with a good phone case to replace the leather ones
-find your North Star towards WWDC intros that don’t make everyone cringe (Mother Earth, Craig etc)
-finding a replacement for Tim with at least a little more charisma than beige wallpaper
-figuring out what you want to do with this whole Mac Pro thing
-bringing all iPhones into “current year” with actual VRR
-creating mice, trackpads and keyboards that have USB-C and don’t need to lay on their back or side to charge
-fix your awful software quality (x2)
-prevent Tim from making product decisions
-make sense of the Apple Pencil compatibility

Ok I’ll stop but there’s so much more

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