After launching three new games this morning, Apple Arcade now offers more than 200 games for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV users for just $4.99 per month.
The service has been busy during the first half of 2021, releasing a whopping 30 games in April alone. Apple Arcade gained long-awaited titles Fantasian from Mistwalker and Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, as well as NBA 2K21 Arcade Edition, one of the biggest titles to hit the service to date.
You can also play remastered App Store classics like Angry Birds: Reloaded and Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City. The original versions of some Apple Arcade games like Monument Valley or Simon’s Cat are still available outside of Apple Arcade, but they could have ads and in-app purchases. And there’s more still to come.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple Arcade is one of the best gaming values you’ll find anywhere.
CNET maintains a running list of all the games that are available to play on Apple Arcade here.
WOW, 200+ games and all the creepy photo library scanning you can handle! Sign me up.
200 sophisticated beautiful variations of Donkey Kong. Once we thought platform games were dead. They’ve found a home on the Mac.
Hmmm…. Maybe they will create a Ted Lasso platform game.
Apple’s puritanical problems are most evident in their games. No one is allowed to be attractive, except in pay-to-win. Only plain, androgynous, stylized heroes allowed. And the pasty no-textures look to everything is so annoying.
It’s not about the number of games it’s about the quality of the games and the games suck.
WTF cares. Apple has long left the square peg-round hole paradigm. Now it’s embraced the lowest common denominator…easily observed by the rapidity and excitement with new emojis and lame game releases.
Add to that, scorning ownership because subscripts ensure flow of $$ while people sleep and venturing into the monitoring that’s been a part of other tech giants…compromising what looked to be a story of excellence re: privacy and security.
The Apple story gets more diluted–focused on the masses–and more about the easiest path to revenue with each passing yr. The Story noted is more than the stock price, revenue and market reach. Some can’t understand there’s a difference in what makes a good story/good company. To them; stock up = fine and dandy. That mindset was NOT in the foundational mindset.