Apple Arcade Adding Four More Games, Including Angry Birds Bounce

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that four additional games will be added to the Apple Arcade library on Thursday, July 3, including a new Angry Birds title.

Angry Birds Bounce is a new take on the iconic Angry Birds game, which has been downloaded billions of times over the years. According to Apple, it combines classic Angry Birds slingshot gameplay with arcade-style brick-breaker mechanics.

Apple's full description of the game:

Join Red, Chuck, Bomb, and the rest of the gang on a brand-new adventure. Angry Birds Bounce combines the classic charm of Angry Birds with an innovative arcade brick-breaker twist. When the pigs take over their islands, the birds must bounce back — literally — combining into powerful flocks and launching themselves to defeat an army of piggies and reclaim their home. With strategic rogue-lite gameplay, each level is a new challenge where players will master precision shots, unlock exciting power-ups, and build unique combos during each run.

All four games that are coming to Apple Arcade on July 3:

• Angry Birds Bounce
• Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+
• Suika Game+
• Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets+

More details about all of the games are outlined in Apple's announcement.

Apple also highlighted five games that are launching on Apple Arcade today.

Accessible through the App Store, Apple Arcade is a subscription-based service that provides access to hundreds of games across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, all free of ads and in-app purchases. In the U.S., Apple Arcade costs $6.99 per month, and it is bundled with other Apple services in all Apple One plans.

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[syklee26]

No reply shows where Apple Arcade stands.

 

[Baron Thompson]

Wish they would add some higher quality games. I like playing games on the Apple TV with controllers and the emulators aren't bad but a pain to setup and use.

 

[pavelbure]

Always ready for another Kingdom Rush game.

 

[Unity451]

Angry Birds is played out. I'd like to see revitalization of Cover Orange. That was the best puzzle game.

 

[g13000]

Please bring back Angry Birds Go!

 

[BGrifter]

Selling my Xbox now that I can play Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets+ on my iPhone.

It’s the Dark Souls of games from crayon companies.

 

[svish]

Arcade needs more good quality games. The current catalogue is not very interesting. Another variant of Angry birds as an addition is nice.

 

[dead.cell]

I've installed games to my phone before, and despite being a "gamer", rarely do I ever have time for something that I can't immediately put down like word/puzzle/card games.

 

[TheOldChevy]

We need all the oldies on the AppleTV: Doom, Quake, DukeNukem and even LoadRunner, Snake... all these memories would be perfect for rainy days with friends.

 

[Luuthian]

Looks decently fun, I'll give it a shot

 

[hokuspokus]

I feel Apple Arcade has become a service for parents to babysit their kids. It mostly seems to have kid targeted games.

However, I want to play games on my iPhone/iPad too but there have been so few games I'd play. Even now, I often see people recommending games that were from near the launch of Apple Arcade and not much from more recent releases. Some of them aren't even on Apple Arcade anymore.

For me, I mostly want ports from PC/consoles. That's due to games that were released on mobile first tend to be for kids, freemium, pay to play, gacha, stuff you'd play to kill time while in line instead of making time to play, etc. type of games which I rarely, if ever, like.

 

[Leon Nash]

I am currently several weeks away from my PC, PS5, XBox and Switch, so I decided to check the App Store.

Noticed that Arcade has (yet another) one month trial. Did not have high expectations this time either, but then…

I found Balatro+ and I am hooked.

 

[emulator]

No reply shows where Apple Arcade stands.

Crap, crap and more crap, that's where.... these are not real games.

 

[frownface]

I'm genuinely curious as to whether apple will keep arcade going.
It's clearly been a flop. But i'm doubtful they'll axe it as then they'd have to lower the price of the apple one bundle.

 

[Donkey Man]

Apple today announced that four additional games will be added to the Apple Arcade library on Thursday, July 3, including a new Angry Birds title.

Angry Birds Bounce is a new take on the iconic Angry Birds game, which has been downloaded billions of times over the years. According to Apple, it combines classic Angry Birds slingshot gameplay with arcade-style brick-breaker mechanics.

Apple's full description of the game:All four games that are coming to Apple Arcade on July 3:

• Angry Birds Bounce
• Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+
• Suika Game+
• Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets+

More details about all of the games are outlined in Apple's announcement.

Apple also highlighted five games that are launching on Apple Arcade today.

Accessible through the App Store, Apple Arcade is a subscription-based service that provides access to hundreds of games across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, all free of ads and in-app purchases. In the U.S., Apple Arcade costs $6.99 per month, and it is bundled with other Apple services in all Apple One plans.

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Just kill that sorry service already - nobody cares about it, nobody wants it. Just like eWorld, MobileMe, Game Center and so many other half-assed Apple initiatives.
In fact, Apple is so bad at gaming that even Steam would probably die under its ownership.

 

[Luuthian]

They’ll keep Arcade around. By itself it isn’t successful, but it’s part of the value of Apple One and that is very successful. If they remove it the pricing becomes dubious.

Arcade is nice anyway. Who wants to play AAA games on their phone? That’s a terrible idea. Even with a controller attachment phones are not devices purpose built for “real games.” They have battery concerns, throttling, notification annoyances, bad touch controls, etc. Arcade offers some incredibly good bite sized experiences you can pick up and drop that fill a time gap. They do what a phone game should. And there’s plenty of great stuff there for kids. It’s a decent service, but you have to accept it for what it is.

We already have Gamepass and PS5 and the Switch anyway. It’s better Apple offers something unique and better built for their ecosystem

 

[NoIdentity]

Just kill that sorry service already - nobody cares about it, nobody wants it. Just like eWorld, MobileMe, Game Center and so many other half-assed Apple initiatives.
In fact, Apple is so bad at gaming that even Steam would probably die under its ownership.

The thing is Apple Arcade is a great idea and it could work. It solves a massive problem that the regulators haven't yet caught on. Arcade effectively stops in-app purchases and the gamblification of games. This is what Arcade changes in the phone/tablet arena. Unfortunately their game library is lacking.

There are some clear evergreens like solitaire, sudoku, mahjong, etc. Things a lot of people will download to their devices. The choice is either play those game with hundreds of adds or pay for each one a monthly subscription, Apple Arcade is cheaper in this sense. But yeah it does feel it could offer so much more. Apple Arcade + a game focused on Apple TV would be pretty much a competitor to Xbox and Playstation, with iPads and iPhones would compete in the Switch market. So yeah if they would be more serious about the gaming aspect of it they would have a very solid product on their hands.