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Apple Launches 20 New Games on Apple Arcade

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Apple today announced that 20 new games are launching on its Apple Arcade gaming subscription service.


The announcement comes alongside a new ad for the subscription service that features some of the new titles and many of the most popular games on the platform. In Apple's press release, Apple Arcade senior director Alex Rofman said:
Apple Arcade brings together hundreds of fun titles in one gaming destination for our users to discover and enjoy. Today's launch boosts our award-winning catalog with 20 new games people will love playing and sharing with their friends and families.
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The new games today joining Apple Arcade include:

  • TMNT Splintered Fate (Paramount Global)
  • Disney SpellStruck (Artist Arcade)
  • WHAT THE CAR? (Triband)
  • Cityscapes: Sim Builder (Magic Fuel Games)
  • Chess Universe+ (Tilting Point)
  • Disney Coloring World+ (StoryToys)
  • Disney Getaway Blast+ (Gameloft)
  • Farming Simulator 20+ (GIANTS Software)
  • Getting Over It+ (Bennett Foddy)
  • Hill Climb Racing+ (Fingersoft)
  • Iron Marines+ (Ironhide Game Studio)
  • Kingdom Two Crowns+ (Raw Fury)
  • Playdead’s LIMBO+ (Playdead)
  • My Town Home - Family Games+ (My Town Games LTD)
  • Octodad: Dadliest Catch+ (Young Horses)
  • PPKP+ (SHIMADA TOSHIHIRO)
  • Snake.io+ (Kooapps)
  • Temple Run+ (Imangi Studios)
  • Time Locker+ (Sotaro Otsuka)
  • Very Little Nightmares+ (Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Games like WHAT THE CAR?, TMNT Splintered Fate, Disney SpellStruck, and Cityscapes: Sim Builder are exclusive to Apple Arcade, while titles like Temple Run+, Playdead's LIMBO+, and PPKP+ bring popular App Store classics to the subscription service for the first time.

Last year, Apple added more than 50 games to the Apple Arcade catalog and over 300 updates were released for games already on the paltform. Later this month, major updates are set to come to Jetpack Joyride 2, Angry Birds Reloaded, SpongeBob: Patty Pursuit, Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat, LEGO Star Wars: Castaways, Asphalt 8: Airborne+, Cut the Rope Remastered, My Little Pony: Mane Merge, and more.

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I'd really like if Apple had a poker app with Spades or Texas Hold'em where the AI's weren't crap and the live player base was incentivised to actually play and not just do an All-In for the first 20 hands to see if they can get a stack to play with or start a new game.
 
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Juicy Box said:
Are any of these going to be on available on tvOS?
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Another note related to the Apple TV, the newest model, the 2022 ATV4K3 with the A15 chip has been thermal throttling when playing certain games, I wonder if this issue might impact developers and/or Apple on releasing certain games on Apple Arcade.

It is pretty bad, the 2021 ATV4K2 can actually outperform the 2023 model for some games due to having a fan.

I attached a passive heatsink for the top of the ATV4K3, and it helps to a point, then the frame rate drops. I just purchased a heatsink with a fan, and I expect it to be a big improvement. Testing it this weekend.
 
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This list sounds promising.
And some games my children are likely to enjoy using on their iPads.

That ad is nice too, great to see the characters outside their game environments.
Love the title card at the end! The neon sign looks fantastic and is a neat reinforcement of the ‘Arcade’ concept/brand.
 
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How about Cyberpunk or Star Wars or Forza Horizon or Hogwarts Legacy or Apex Legends or Street Fighter 6 or some AAA game?
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Do as this nearly everything Apple guy did and re-embrace PC for purposes like this. I bought one for "old fashioned bootcamp" (to pair with a Silicon Mac) and realized typical Apple computer money could buy a fairly loaded PC. It is my first PC in > 10 years but I have full Windows (not Windows ARM), a robust graphics card and access to pretty much all such AAA games instead of wishing they were available for Mac. It's great to have access to any software and the easy ability to pick & choose based on what runs best on which platform... or what is even available on which platform.

This is THE way to the best-rated games in 2023. They won't come to Mac until Apple puts sizable budget towards getting them much as the existing players put sizable budget towards getting AAA games for their own platforms. Gamemakers are motivated by CASH, not hype & spin about Silicon supremacy or even if Apple rolled out a M20 extreme ultra++ super AI hybrid SOC Mach 7. Money talks... LOUDLY.
 
What the car?

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How about Cyberpunk or Star Wars or Forza Horizon or Hogwarts Legacy or Apex Legends or Street Fighter 6 or some AAA game?
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Because 90% of the hardware Apple sells won't run it and they are not made for the Metal API. Unless Apple is gonna fork over some serious cash it's never going to happen and Apple Arcade will be stuck with games we could play on Miniclip for free 15 years ago.
 
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