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Apple Acquires Gaming Studio RAC7
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For all people who don't know about this game. I'm a 47 years old, i played videogames since 8-bit era. This is one of the best games i ever played. It seems simple but is very deep and fun to play hours and hours. It's like playing a sim city game with a little breath of the wild.
It’s endlessly updated. The game today is entirely beyond the one they released. As someone said it’s like GTA for kids but with constant updates. They deserve to stay at no 1 on the App Store because the creativity, constant improvement and not having micro transactions (something sorely lacking in the gaming industry as a whole.)
Sneaky Sasquatch is the best thing on Apple Arcade by some margin.
Apple has purchased game studio RAC7, according to a report from Digital Trends. RAC7 is a small, two-person company that developed Apple Arcade game Sneaky Sasquatch, and the acquisition was confirmed by an Apple spokesperson.
From Digital Trends:
RAC7 will become an internal game studio within Apple, and Apple purchased the company to help Sneaky Sasquatch continue to grow on Apple Arcade. Sneaky Sasquatch was one of the first games to launch on Apple Arcade when the service went live, and it has continued to be popular with subscribers.
Apple already works with developers and game companies to create titles for Apple Arcade, but this is the company's first game studio acquisition. Digital Trends notes that Apple does not appear to be implementing a new gaming strategy, describing the RAC7 acquisition as a unique situation.
Apple Arcade is Apple's subscription gaming service, priced at $6.99 per month. Apple Arcade has hundreds of games, with no additional subscription fees or in-app purchases.
Article Link: Apple Acquires Gaming Studio RAC7
Yes, exactly this. They've kept the game alive by updating and expanding it organically. It's a wonderful bit of work.
Apple iOS platform is perfect for buying or a major partnership with Nintendo.
Even just focusing on getting less gpu demanding high usage games like Rivals, Overwatch, Fortnite, and optimizing natively for cross platform multiplayer would be a huge win for Apple. These games would play extremely well in iOS on recent models.
In conjunction with an updated Apple TV that can handle these well, they could really make a move. And already existing games like Stardew Valley, COD Moblie, Minecraft and Roblox, should be on Apple TV today. I know its not Apples decision in most cases but they should be making more effort towards partnerships and opening wallet to do so if they were serious.
Even just focusing on getting less gpu demanding high usage games like Rivals, Overwatch, Fortnite, and optimizing natively for cross platform multiplayer would be a huge win for Apple. These games would play extremely well in iOS on recent models.
In conjunction with an updated Apple TV that can handle these well, they could really make a move. And already existing games like Stardew Valley, COD Moblie, Minecraft and Roblox, should be on Apple TV today. I know its not Apples decision in most cases but they should be making more effort towards partnerships and opening wallet to do so if they were serious.
Apple has purchased game studio RAC7, according to a report from Digital Trends. RAC7 is a small, two-person company that developed Apple Arcade game Sneaky Sasquatch, and the acquisition was confirmed by an Apple spokesperson.
From Digital Trends:
RAC7 will become an internal game studio within Apple, and Apple purchased the company to help Sneaky Sasquatch continue to grow on Apple Arcade. Sneaky Sasquatch was one of the first games to launch on Apple Arcade when the service went live, and it has continued to be popular with subscribers.
Apple already works with developers and game companies to create titles for Apple Arcade, but this is the company's first game studio acquisition. Digital Trends notes that Apple does not appear to be implementing a new gaming strategy, describing the RAC7 acquisition as a unique situation.
Apple Arcade is Apple's subscription gaming service, priced at $6.99 per month. Apple Arcade has hundreds of games, with no additional subscription fees or in-app purchases.
Article Link: Apple Acquires Gaming Studio RAC7
I predict this is about buying the IP to make a franchise of this game, including a movie (or movies). Kids are obsessed with it.
I'm no gamer, but this acquisition doesn't look like anything to right home about, the game is something that 14/15 year olds could code
Apple has purchased game studio RAC7, according to a report from Digital Trends. RAC7 is a small, two-person company that developed Apple Arcade game Sneaky Sasquatch, and the acquisition was confirmed by an Apple spokesperson.
From Digital Trends:
RAC7 will become an internal game studio within Apple, and Apple purchased the company to help Sneaky Sasquatch continue to grow on Apple Arcade. Sneaky Sasquatch was one of the first games to launch on Apple Arcade when the service went live, and it has continued to be popular with subscribers.
Apple already works with developers and game companies to create titles for Apple Arcade, but this is the company's first game studio acquisition. Digital Trends notes that Apple does not appear to be implementing a new gaming strategy, describing the RAC7 acquisition as a unique situation.
Apple Arcade is Apple's subscription gaming service, priced at $6.99 per month. Apple Arcade has hundreds of games, with no additional subscription fees or in-app purchases.
Article Link: Apple Acquires Gaming Studio RAC7
From the photo in the article, this looks exactly the type of top-tier studio Apple would buy out. I mean, look at those high-end graphics! 🤣😂
Point is, it's not about the high end graphics. It's about the quality of the game (which is exceptional) and its ability (perhaps uniquely in the Arcade) to keep people subscribing.
No. They shouldn’t buy CDPR.
If Apple were ever to get genuinely serious about gaming on Mac, despite some 40-odd years of evidence to the contrary, they’d recognise the need to bring genuinely massively popular franchises to the platform. That means sports, and it means FPS. Games like the annual instalment of FIFA have tens of millions of players. COD and Battlefield and (whisper it) Fortnite have huge numbers.
I don’t think CDPR’s games like Cyberpunk 2077, with its graphic violence (for all that COD is a shootybang game, it’s not particularly graphic), strong language, overtly sexual content (In Night City, there’s literally a shop full of nothing but the most remarkably extravagant dildos) and adult themes, are the answer. Nor are the astoundingly graphically violent Resident Evil games, and nor is that game where you strap a baby in a jar to your chest to keep the demons away while you work as an Amazon delivery
You either have no little kids or live under a rock. Sneaky Sasquatch is a massive hit with this group.
I have wanted to cancel Apple Arcade but my wife won’t let me because of how much fun the kids have with SS.
And as others have said, it has a 4.9/5 rating. It’s a near perfect game.
Just because you aren’t the target audience for something doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. The world doesn’t revolve around your narrow views. Thank goodness 🙏🏻
This is how those same folks talk to their parents. Parents have to deal with a lot of variables, including the unknown and try to spend money wisely to ensure a level of long term security and near term comfort.
Kids: You should buy a Lamborghini, you’ve got the money!
Correct.
Correct, some days.
Has this not been achieved previously?
You’re absolutely correct. How narrow minded of me to have an opinion, preceded by the fact that developers themselves are not happy with how Apple Arcade is serviced and Tim Cook not knowing how to invest the company’s fortunes. Thank goodness, indeed!
Agreed. Current assortment is great for young kids. My kid loved SS too. Along with Way Of Turtle and OceanHorn2. Apple could sweep in and get those smaller studios as well to develop the next version. And this is why I say a big Nintendo x Apple partnership would make so much sense assuming it expanded Nintendos current dominance in the market.
I had no idea. Checked it out at launch, enjoyed it for a while and never went back. It's really that much more now?
I'm going to guess that you maybe haven't played COD in a decade or so? It's quite graphic nowadays. I'm sure Warzone is pretty sanitized in general due to being fast-paced multiplayer, but I picked up one of the newer Black Ops titles a couple years ago after ignoring the franchise for a long time, and I was honestly a little taken aback by the level of personal, upclose violence and the casual jingoism it is deployed with. And I'm not a shrinking violet about such things.
Roblox is absolutely massive. Nearly every kid I know, from ages 6 to 16, plays it regularly. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it constantly myself. FWIW, Roblox gift cards are a very safe bet if you ever get a last minute birthday party invite.I found out a couple days ago that Apple supports a game platform which sees more concurrent users than most AAA titles will ever see.
This Is One Of The Most Popular Games On The Planet Right Now - Kotaku
Grow a Garden at one point had over 5 million active Roblox users playing itkotaku.com
I had no idea that Roblox was… THAT big. I wonder what usage numbers Apple’s seeing on this game? The more info I come across the more it makes sense that there’s not a lot of focus on what’s called AAA games. There’s SO much money available outside of AAA!
I’m up to Prestige Master level 230-something in Black Ops 6. Yes, I’ve played it recently.
It’s violent but not graphically so. Sure, it’s jingoistic, and sure, it’s Fortnite-y as hell (got ganked by a ninja turtle and the girl robot thing out of Squid Game the other night), but people don’t explode in a shower of body parts, they just ragdoll all over the place. Blood and guts is minimal.
It’s definitely a lot less messy than any Resident Evil game, that’s for sure.
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I'm talking about the campaign, not the MP, in Cold War specifically. It seemed to go above and beyond to make the kills as brutal and disturbing as possible. Cutscenes and melee finishers primarily, but npc's also scream and writhe after having limbs removed at range. To be clear, I'm not trying to church-lady anybody about violence in games. Just pointing out to the other commenter that COD isn't the family friendly IP that he thinks Apple is interested in acquiring.I’m up to Prestige Master level 230-something in Black Ops 6. Yes, I’ve played it recently.
It’s violent but not graphically so. Sure, it’s jingoistic, and sure, it’s Fortnite-y as hell (got ganked by a ninja turtle and the girl robot thing out of Squid Game the other night), but people don’t explode in a shower of body parts, they just ragdoll all over the place. Blood and guts is minimal.
It’s definitely a lot less messy than any Resident Evil game, that’s for sure.
Would not help, they would still make G and PG crap.
Really going to push the top of the line iPad's with M4 chips to their very limits
Seems a couple of people disagreed with my comment above, so I better correct it I guess.
I'd imagine this game is really going to push the top of the line iPad's with M4 chips to their limits.