Apple Unveils a Dedicated Games App (engadget.com) 12
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced a new dedicated Games app coming to Mac, iPhone, and iPad with features like leaderboards, matchmaking, and integration with Apple Arcade. Engadget's Jessica Conditt describes it as "a revamp of Game Center" that behaves "more like a modern gaming hub, a la Xbox or GOG Galaxy." From the report: You can see what your friends are playing and challenge them to specific feats in certain titles. The library tab will include every game you've ever downloaded from the App Store, allowing you to booth them up right there. On Mac, a Games app overlay makes communication tools, audio controls, Bluetooth connections and live battery levels accessible at any time.
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Games App (Score:1)
I'm an adult and my devices are tools.
Games are for distracting your children.
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Look at Mr Serious over here.
They already made this app, forced us all to... (Score:3)
This is completely fucking ridiculous and implausible. This isn't even a product that we might not want, this is a product we have all demonstrated a complete and utter disdain for.
This is gross. This is a scam and Tim Cook is a grifter.
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I've never seen someone so angry at something that can simply be ignored.
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Vista Equities took a massive position in the biggest trading card sales website in the world. These grifters are buying businesses, tearing them apart and then when they fail, they use the loss to offset their tax burden.
This dude is making force of will more expensive AND defunding public schools. He's truly a villain. He also has no purported expertise in the field he's commenting on. As I've demonstrated, he's a money laundering tax cheat, n
Laughs in Steam. (Score:2)
They already made this app, forced us to install it and we all absolutely hated it. Apple is in reruns. Every single aspect of this press release and product are identical to a previous, failed version of an identical product.
This is completely fucking ridiculous and implausible. This isn't even a product that we might not want, this is a product we have all demonstrated a complete and utter disdain for.
This is gross. This is a scam and Tim Cook is a grifter.
Whilst that is true, Apple products are a scam this isn't really going to go anywhere. Apple fails spectacularly when confronted with a well established market, in fact it tends to fail when confronted with an uncontested market most of the time. Their successes have been abreactions.
how about some dedication to gamers? (Score:2)
Apple has consistently done nothing to help and everything to hurt gamers on their platform. They don't support anyone else's APIs for example, so every game engine has to be rewritten for their platform. This makes it a no-brainer to not bother to port games to it. If they would just support Vulkan it would help a lot, but they don't actually seem to care even slightly about their users who want to game.
Making a having hub application that no one asked for because no one wants it is not going to help even
sideloading and mods needs to be allowed for games (Score:2)
sideloading and mods needs to be allowed for games to be an thing.
New Games app...for what ? (Score:2)
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Is Apple getting AAA games for it ?? Don't like any of their stupid little games in The Arcade... You can see what your friends are playing and challenge them to specific feats in certain titles... I'm 68 and have no playing friends . lolol. Apple needs to work /support to get real AAA games that run natively !
Nah, this is for the kind of browser game you used to play for free over the web but now pay $5.99 for on the app store.
Macs don't have any graphics hardware.