Apple Arcade: First Game Subscription Service Launches

A Apple held a special event today (25), in Cupertino, California, to announce a series of news, where, in addition to Apple Card, the company's new digital credit card, and new features for the Apple TV, apple introduced the company's first game subscription service, the Apple Arcade.

O Apple Arcade is a game subscription service that will give you access to hundreds of exclusive games for your devices. Apple . O Arcade will be available for desktop, TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV and, unlike other competing services, the user will be able to download a title and play it completely offline. Therefore, by subscribing to the Apple Arcade, you will be entitled to hundreds of games whenever and wherever you want.

The game subscription service will also have the feature Family Sharing (“Family Sharing”, in free translation), which allows you to share a single account with family members.

Following a little on the idea of ​​the recent announced Google Stadia, Apple Arcade It will also allow the user to keep playing even when switching devices. For example, if you are playing for your iPhone and want to play in iPad, the migration can be done normally and without data loss.

Apple Arcade Platform

More than 1 billion people have done download of games from App Store and there are over 300 games available. THE Apple expects the Apple Arcade curate some of these top titles on a subscription service. There will be over 100 new and exclusive games available on Apple Arcade, that will be released on iOS, Mac and Apple TV.

Games will be downloaded and played directly from the App Store, and subscribers will be able to try the games whenever they want. All game features, content and future updates will be included, and best of all, there will be no ads displayed during gameplay.

Although there is still no official list of games, the Apple showed a good range of titles in their intro video, including platforms and titles like Sonic the Hedgehog. Partnerships with studios and developers are within the company's radius. Check out the service presentation video:

list of games

The list must contain Annapurna Interactive games, Bossa Studios, cartoon network, Finji, Giant Squid, Klei Entertainment, Konami, Lego, Mistwalker Corporation, SEGA, Snowman and others.

Besides the Sonic the Hedgehog, the list of possible games that will be available on the Apple Arcade includes: Where Cards Fall, The Pathless, LEGO Brawls, Hot Lava, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm e Beyond Steel Sky. on the website of Apple Arcade It is possible to register and stay informed about the next news that will be released.

Game developers will be able to apply for more service information, even before its launch, which should take place in the first half of the year.

Like New Apple Arcade, the company seems to have shied away from the competition, see Google Stadia and the future xCloud with services in streaming, and announced a service of download of games. Despite not having a price available yet, it is worth keeping an eye on the public's reception in relation to the Arcade.

What did you think of Apple's ads? O Arcade will be a strong competitor of Stadia? Leave it in the comments.

It is worth remembering that this is just one of the great announcements made by the company, which recently launched a new AirPods, in addition to new iPads and iMacs.

Sources: The Verge, Apple .