Si te encantan los videojuegos retro, te espera un placer. Imagen: Antstream
Por primera vez, un catálogo de más de 1.300 juegos clásicos llegará a la Apple Store para iPhone y iPad a partir del 27 de junio, dijo el martes el servicio de juegos retro Antstream. Antstream Arcade se lanza en la App Store como resultado de los recientes cambios globales realizados por Apple en respuesta a la Ley de Mercados Digitales (DMA) de la Unión Europea.
Anstream Arcade se lanza en la App Store el 27 de junio con más de 1300 juegos clásicos para iPhone y iPad
El nuevo servicio de transmisión se llama Antstream Arcade. Su biblioteca con licencia de más de 1300 videojuegos incluye títulos como Apestar, asteroides, Invasores espaciales, Cerdos de la guerra Y mucho más. Los títulos de juegos cubren una variedad de sistemas de la vieja escuela que muchos conocen y aman desde hace mucho tiempo, como Commodore 64, Atari 2600, PlayStation One, juegos arcade clásicos y más.
La empresa indicó que el servicio ya está disponible en otras plataformas de la Unión Europea, Estados Unidos y Brasil, pero se unirá a la App Store el próximo 27 de junio.
Por un tiempo limitado después del lanzamiento de la App Store, Antstream Arcade tendrá un precio ligeramente más bajo que en otros lugares. En la App Store, costará temporalmente $3,99 por mes o $29,99 por año antes de volver al precio típico de $4,99 por mes o $39,99 por año.
Conocemos a muchos jugadores retro que querrán explorar la biblioteca de Antstream en busca de juegos nostálgicos o juegos nuevos que nunca supieron que existían.
Rabbids: Leyendas del Multiverso De Ubisoft es un juego de construcción de cartas que presenta un elenco loco de personajes que exploran cinco universos extraños. Se acaba de lanzar para iPhone, Mac y más.
Se le unen tres juegos clásicos, todos los cuales ahora se pueden jugar a través de Apple Arcade.
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En lugar de pagar individualmente por los juegos o soportar llamadas molestas para realizar compras dentro de la aplicación en juegos “gratuitos”, arcada de manzana Ofrece más de 200 opciones por una tarifa única de $6,99 al mes.
Juegos adicionales solían debutar en el servicio semanalmente, pero hay una nueva estrategia mediante la cual se lanzan nuevos títulos cada mes al mismo tiempo. Eso incluye cuatro nuevas opciones el jueves.
Rabbids: Leyendas del Multiverso Por Ubisoft
El único juego original agregado es el juego de Ubisoft. Rabbids: Leyendas del Multiverso.
Apple Arcade dice:
Embárcate en el viaje más ridículo mientras los traviesos Rabbids corren como locos por el multiverso. En esta nueva y emocionante aventura, los jugadores deben reunir su ingenio y formar el escuadrón definitivo, que incluye una mezcla ecléctica de caballeros, ninjas, piratas, vaqueros, Rabbids y más. Explorarán cinco universos extraños, desde el Noodle Valley de Dragonland hasta la poderosa montaña Rapidsmoor, encontrándose con ridículos Rabbids a cada paso.
Como se mencionó anteriormente, es un juego de construcción de mazos en el que los jugadores recolectan cartas virtuales para formar un equipo.
Rabbids: Leyendas del Multiverso Disponible en la App Store ahora. Ofrece juegos para un jugador o para dos jugadores y es compatible con iPhone, iPad, Mac y Apple TV.
Más tres clásicos de la App Store
Para aumentar la cantidad de juegos en su servicio de suscripción, Apple está agregando títulos lanzados anteriormente y los llama “App Store Greats”. Se agrega “+” al nombre y el precio de compra es $0.
Otra diferencia entre la nueva versión y la versión original es que se han excluido las compras dentro de la aplicación. Apple Arcade no les permite hacer eso. Lo mismo ocurre con los anuncios, las cajas de botín y el seguimiento de jugadores invasores.
Tres de estos grandes fueron lanzados el 6 de junio.
Regreso a la Isla de los Monos+ Es una gran tienda de aplicaciones. Imagen: Devolver Digital/Apple Arcade
Regreso a la Isla de los Monos+ Es el tercero de la serie de juegos clásicos de Ron Gilbert. Continúa la historia de Guybrush Threepwood, su enemigo pirata zombie LeChuck y su verdadero amor Elaine Marley. El juego de aventuras se puede jugar en iPhone, iPad y Mac, y es compatible con consolas de juegos.
Tumba de la Máscara+ Playgendary desafía a los jugadores a recorrer un laberinto con complejos giros y vueltas. Cuidado: hay trampas ocultas y muchos enemigos que superar en tu camino. Es un juego de aventuras para un jugador para iPhone y iPad.
Precioso – Desastre de boda+ De GameHouse es un juego de gestión del tiempo con temática de bodas. Es para los amantes de la moda, el romance y los chismes de celebridades. Este es un juego de estrategia para un jugador disponible para iPhone y iPad.
Throughout May, there will also be updates to current Apple Arcade games like Hello Kitty Island Adventure, WHAT THE CAR?, and Ridiculous Fishing EX, with further updates to come in June.
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New Apple Arcade games in May and early June include five titles. Photo: Apple
Coming soon to Apple Arcade are five exciting new games, the iPhone giant said Monday. You can look forward to Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse, Return to Monkey Island+, Tomb of the Mask+, Fabulous – Wedding Disaster+ and Vision Pro spatial title Where Cards Fall.
It starts on May 30 with the arrival of 3D puzzle game Where Cards Fall. The other four titles follow on June 6.
5 exciting new games coming to Apple Arcade, including Where Cards Fall and Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse
Where Cards Fall (May 30) won a 2020 Apple Design Award. It brings dreamlike spatial puzzles with full 3D depth and immersion to Vision Pro users. The game features tactile, accessible controls handcrafted for the headset. In a coming-of-age story, players use gestures to manipulate and bring houses of cards to life.
Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse (June 6) reintroduces popular characters from Ubisoft’s hit Rayman series. The game is an “all-new adventure card battler” in which the Rabbids are “set loose across the multiverse.”
Return to Monkey Island+ (June 6) constitutes a modern take on the classic point-and-click adventure. It’s the sixth game in the timeless series.
Tomb of the Mask+ (June 6) is a “devilishly fast tomb-raiding platformer game with an eye-catching retro style.”
Fabulous – Wedding Disaster+ (June 6) is a wedding-themed time management game from veteran developer GameHouse.
The Rabbit run amok across the multiverse. Photo: Apple
Apple Arcade‘s more than 200 titles are available for $6.99 per month with a one-month free trial. Customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV receive three months of Apple Arcade for free. Apple Arcade is also part of Apple One’s Individual, Family and Premier tiered monthly plans, each with a free trial.
Apple Arcade games Crossy Road Castle and Solitaire Stories are set to launch on the Vision Pro headset tomorrow, adding two additional popular games to Apple’s first head worn device.
In Crossy Road Castle, players can progress through tower levels with pinch and flick gestures. Up to four players can play at one time, though there’s also a solo version of the game.
Crossy Road Castle for Vision Pro has the same features as the other versions of the game, including characters and hats to unlock, game controller support, and challenge events to complete. Levels are procedurally generated, so each new game is different.
Solitaire Stories provides players with a virtual card table to play classic solitaire games. There are multiple versions of solitaire included, such as Klondike Quick Play, Spider, and Draw 3, as well as support for online multiplayer gameplay.
The game includes a progressive story with increasingly difficult levels, along with different deck designs to unlock. There are also daily challenges and contests.
Several Apple Arcade games available on iOS and macOS are receiving updates today, including Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop, Cooking Mama: Cuisine, Fruit Ninja Classic, and Zookeeper World.
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It’s hard to know where to start on Apple Arcade because the service offers so many titles. But we scoured the catalog and found all the best Apple Arcade games so you can get right to the good stuff.
Unfortunately, many mobile games are hardly games at all. They come stuffed with invasive ads, dark patterns that nudge you to spend money, and push notifications that keep drawing you back in. Apple Arcade flips the business model to a low-cost subscription. It costs just $6.99 per month (and is included in every tier of the Apple One subscription bundles.) Plus, you can get a free seven-day trial. And you can grab a free three-month subscription when you buy a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac.
Every game on the service is totally free to play — and many are totally fun. Here’s our guide to the very best Apple Arcade games.
Cityscapes: Sim Builder
You must factor in the environment in Cityscapes: Sim Builder. Screenshot: Playstack
If you miss playing SimCity 2000 (and you’re upset that Cities: Skylines II isn’t getting a port to the Mac) your consolation prize is Cityscapes: Sim Builder.
In this classic city-building game, you must balance the needs of your citizens as you develop housing, transportation, utilities and public services — all while staying within your budget.
It’s not really as challenging as the classics in the genre. There’s a lot of simple clicking to upgrade things in turn, and the tutorial levels are somewhat railroaded. However, it definitely scratches the city-building itch.
Don’t worry if you don’t own a giant screen to play it on. The Cityscapes interface scales down nicely to an iPhone just as well as it plays on a Mac or iPad.
Match ingredients to recipes and start cooking in Cooking Mama: Cuisine! Screenshot: Office Create/Apple Arcade
In this cooking simulator, you pick an ingredient and a tool to get started. But to prepare the dish in Cooking Mama: Cuisine!, you’ll need to act fast. Seasoning with salt and pepper, flipping a pan to cook meat on each side, rolling out dough, cutting onions — each comes with its own game mechanics that you need to learn and use in a matter of seconds.
What are you even cooking? You won’t know until the very end, when you’re presented with the results of your fine work.
Gorgeous minimalist popcorn-themed graphics in this Minesweeper-style game. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac
This is, as the name may imply, a minimalistic, popcorn-themed reimagining of the classic Minesweeper game. Cornsweeper’s story mode comes with premade levels, a store full of upgrades that add new game mechanics and, best of all, a Hall of Grain. The popcorn-based humor remains a constant throughout the game.
A new, modern JellyCar game on Apple Arcade! Screenshot: Walaber/Apple TV+
In this game, you drive a car up and around a world of puzzles, blocks, ramps, moving balls and more.
Except everything is a little squishy. Your car can squeeze through a bunch of tight spaces you wouldn’t expect. Sometimes, you need to speed over a bridge before it buckles beneath you.
Two people can play JellyCar Worlds at once with local multiplayer using a connected controller — and you can even design your own car. (Read more: 7 squishy reasons you should play JellyCar Worlds.)
Piloting a motorcycle though a city is just part of Sayonara Wild Hearts. Screenshot: Annapurna
This rhythm game takes a neon cyberpunk style and runs with it. Sayonara Wild Hearts’ custom soundtrack is amazing. Plus, the story is really weird and surreal. And, just when you think you know what you’re in for, a completely different level shakes things up.
Don’t let the game’s simple controls fool you into thinking Sayonara Wild Hearts is easy or boring. It is described in the App Store as “a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords and breaking hearts at 200 mph.” (Read Cult of Mac’s review: Sayonara Wild Hearts is Apple Arcade’s wildest ride.)
The shovel is mightier than the sword! Photo: Yacht Club Games/Apple Arcade
This is a classic 2D platformer game with fittingly retro graphics to match the old-school genre. You play as a knight wielding a shovel as you dig your way through cavernous levels. At the end of this perilous journey full of pixelated monsters, you will get back your stolen loot.
Draw a shape with your finger and see if it solves the puzzle. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac
Squiggle Drop is a one-of-a-kind puzzle game where you have to draw a single shape with your finger and release it to solve the puzzle.
Can you draw a shape that simultaneously pops three different bubbles? Or turns a screw to just the right angle? Or pushes an anchor out of a boat? Or flips a pancake?
This game makes you feel like an incredible mastermind and a terrible artist all at once.
The Pinball Wizard is a really fun, unique game. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac
Do you want to play a magical, dungeon-crawling, monster-murdering game, or do you want to play pinball? Finally, you no longer need to choose, thanks to The Pinball Wizard.
This game is incredibly creative and fun. Like any old Atari game, it’s easy to learn, but difficult to master. I keep coming back to this one.
This isn’t a typical racing game. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac
Made by the same developers behind What the Golf?, this game is an incredibly silly parody of racing games. Every level hits you with a different and completely wacky game mechanic.
What the Car? will keep you on your toes — just like the car you play, which inexplicably runs around on legs.
Wurdweb takes one aspect of a crossword puzzle and goes to town with it. Photo: Aran & Adriaan
wurdweb is a twist on crossword puzzles, where instead of guessing the word, you’re building the puzzle.
In the daily puzzle, you lay out as many words as you can, earning points for longer words and for how many words you can fit on the board. In other challenges, you need to build a web that touches the end square.
It’s also a bit like Scrabble, except there’s no pressure to come up with the words yourself. Hit certain tiles on the board and you get extra points or extra words added to your list.
You may have heard of these games before. Apple commissioned the developers of these vintage App Store games to remake them for Apple Arcade. Apple calls them App Store Greats, and they all come with their original in-app purchases removed. They’re totally free to play. So maybe it’s no wonder they rank as some of the best Apple Arcade games around.
Asphalt 8: Airborne+
Playing in the Vienna course in the Donkervoort D8. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac
This racing game will take you in real cars, both ordinary and crazy, all around the world on a bunch of tracks inspired by real locations.
The Apple Arcade version of Asphalt 8: Airborne+ strips out all the in-app purchases and currency, so there’s no pay-to-win — you unlock new vehicles, tracks and levels by racing. It’s balanced really well, in my opinion, demanding you learn new tricks to earn more stars to unlock new classes at a regular pace.
Are you smart enough for Bridge Constructor+? Image: Headup
This puzzle game puts you in charge as civil engineer, building bridges that can withstand the heaviest vehicles on a tightly constrained budget.
You have an idea in your head, only to discover you don’t have the budget for it at all. You come up with something else that looks good, but it immediately collapses before any traffic arrives. You get some trucks going across and there’s nail-biting tension as to whether it’ll make it across or not.
And when you finally get it right, you’ll immediately want to do the next one.
Go on a gills and glory quest in Ridiculous Fishing EX.
In this classic fishing simulator, you throw your line and tilt your phone to try and make it go as deep as possible. Then you try to hook as many weird fish as possible on your way back up. Finally, you throw all the fish in the air and try to shoot them with your gun. Exactly how I remember all those long Sundays with my dad.
Ridiculous Fishing EX is a remake of the 2013 original, with beautiful new 3D graphics, new levels and game modes, and an in-game fish-based parody of TikTok.
The popular web game is now ad-free on Apple Arcade. Screenshot: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac
Snake.io+ is a simple live online game where you play as a snake eating bits to grow bigger. But there are other snakes as well, competing with you! If you crash into them, you’re out.
It’s like Shark! Shark! for the Intellivision except you play Snake.io live with other people. It’s just as addictive. And, with the Apple Arcade version, you get no ads and free restore points.
Apple today updated its Apple Arcade gaming service to add a selection of new games to play. The main new addition is Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop, a game in Sega’s popular Puyo Puyo series.
In Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop, players match up Puyos of the same color to clear the board and cause damage to opponents. As with Tetris, Puyo pieces fall from the top of the screen and can be rotated and moved to make matches.
The game has a storyline to uncover by progressing through the levels, and there are 24 playable characters to unlock, with many from prior Puyo Puyo games. Different rule sets can be used, including options from Puyo Puyo 2 and Puyo Puyo Fever, and there is also an endless mode.
There is a single player mode to play, but there are also multiplayer battles. Up to four players can join through Game Center.
Super Monsters Ate My Condo, also new today, is a classic iOS game that’s making a reappearance on Apple Arcade. The idea is swipe to feed condos to monsters, while also making color matches for high scoring combos.
The third game available on Apple Arcade is Sago Mini Trips+, which is designed for children.
Later this month, Apple plans to release Crossy Road Castle and Solitaire Stories, games that will be available on the Vision Pro headset.
Apple Arcade is priced at $6.99 per month for up to six people, and it features more than 200 titles.
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Apple today announced that three more Apple Arcade games will be available on the Vision Pro headset starting this Thursday, March 28.
Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City on Apple Vision Pro
The titles coming to the Vision Pro tomorrow include popular endless runner game Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City, hand-drawn adventure game Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, and physics-based puzzler Spire Blast. All three games are already available on Apple Arcade on other devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.
“On March 28, players can soar above windswept dunes in a fantastical place far from home in Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City, dive into an immersive jungle with a family of gibbons in the 2022 Apple Design Award winning Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, and collapse vibrant towers of all shapes and sizes that appear in their physical space in the fun physics-based puzzle game Spire Blast,” said Apple, in an email about the games.
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Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14. As with WWDC events since 2020, WWDC 2024 will be an online event that is open to all developers at no cost. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. WWDC 2024 will include online sessions and labs so that developers can learn about new…
More details about these games are available in Apple’s press release. All games on Apple Arcade are ad-free and do not offer in-app purchases.
Launched in November 2019, Apple Arcade is accessible through the App Store. The subscription-based service provides access to hundreds of games on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Vision Pro, with new titles added periodically.
Crossy Road Castle will be available on Apple Vision Pro starting April 25
Apple Arcade received its first price increase in many countries last year. In the U.S., for example, pricing went from $4.99 per month to $6.99 per month.
While the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max are still around six months away from launching, there are already many rumors about the devices. Below, we have recapped new features and changes expected so far. These are some of the key changes rumored for the iPhone 16 Pro models as of March 2024:Larger displays: The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will be equipped with larger 6.3-inch…
Apple appears to be internally testing iOS 17.4.1 for the iPhone, based on evidence of the software update in our website’s logs this week. Our logs have revealed the existence of several iOS 17 versions before Apple released them, ranging from iOS 17.0.3 to iOS 17.3.1. iOS 17.4.1 should be a minor update that addresses software bugs and/or security vulnerabilities. It is unclear when…
Earlier this week, Apple announced new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models, the first Mac updates of the year featuring M3 series chips. But there are other Macs in Apple’s lineup still to be updated to the latest M3 processors. So, where do the Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro fit into Apple’s M3 roadmap for the year ahead? Here’s what the latest rumors say. Mac Mini Apple announced …
iOS 17.4 was released last week following over a month of beta testing, and the update includes many new features and changes for the iPhone. iOS 17.4 introduces major changes to the App Store, Safari, and Apple Pay in the EU, in response to the Digital Markets Act. Other new features include Apple Podcasts transcripts, an iMessage security upgrade, new emoji options, and more. Below, we…
Best Buy this weekend has a big sale on Apple MacBooks and iPads, including some of the first notable M2 iPad Pro discounts in months, alongside the best prices we’ve ever seen on MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iPad Air, and more. Some of these deals require a My Best Buy Plus or My Best Buy Total membership, which start at $49.99/year. In addition to exclusive access to select discounts, you’ll get…
Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City on Apple Vision Pro
