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Apple Arcade launches updates for Lego Brawls and 3 other games

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade on Friday launched a slew of updates for several games, which are now available to play. Apple’s $4.99-a-month gaming service has over 100 titles available on the platform, which debuted in September. The service is available …

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Apple Arcade’s Scrappers game has futuristic trash collectors, robots and turf wars

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade on Friday added Scrappers, a new title from Q-Games, to its growing catalog of over 110 games. Scrappers takes a look at the future of waste management in a world ruled by robots. Play solo or team …

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12 sports games to play on iOS while live sports are benched

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. To try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many people are practicing social distancing or sheltering in place, while tourist hotspots have closed down temporarily, movie releases have been pushed back, and major sporting events have been suspended worldwide. Though not every sports …

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Apple Arcade: Big updates come to Rayman

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade launched slew of updates for 10 games in the $4.99-a-month gaming service on Friday, which are now available to play. The gaming service released new in-game content for several other titles earlier this month.  Apple Arcade has over 100 games …

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Apple Arcade launches new RPG Legend of the Skyfish 2

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Apple Arcade on Friday added the new action RPG Legend of the Skyfish 2, from Crescent Moon Games and Mother Gaia Studio, to its growing catalog of over 100 games. In the new game, you play as Little Red …

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iOS 13.4 with CarKey and new Memoji stickers released

Apple released iOS 13.4 Tuesday, after testing the operating system in beta since February. It includes nine new Memoji stickers like party face, smiling face with hearts, eye rolling and huffing with anger, as well as iCloud Drive folder sharing from Files. Also released Tuesday were iPadOS 13.4, MacOS 10.15.4, TVOS 13.4 and WatchOS 6.2. After being delayed last fall, …

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Hipster Whale CEO talks Apple Arcade, Crossy Road Castle and industry challenges

Clara Reeves, CEO of Melbourne-based video game studio Hipster Whale, fell in love with programming when she realized it could be an art form. Reeves, who would go on to oversee Hipster Whale’s popular game Crossy Road in its move to Apple’s mobile gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade, never grew out of her childhood passion of building structures out of …

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Save the world as a tech

Apple Arcade on Friday added Spyder from Sumo Digital to its growing catalog of over 100 games. In Spyder, you must save the world as Agent 8 — a sophisticated miniature robot spider deployed by the British Spy Agency.  Use all of your built-in spy gadgets, gizmos and tools as you scurry to sabotage the dastardly plans of SIN, an evil …

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Apple Arcade launches big updates to 8 popular games

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. On Friday, Apple Arcade launched slew of updates for several games in the $4.99-a-month gaming service, which are now available to play. Apple Arcade has over 100 games available to play now on the platform, which debuted last September. You can …

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Do you miss Peggle? Try Roundguard on Apple Arcade

This story is part of CNET’s coverage of Apple Arcade, including exclusive first looks we got at some of the service’s high-profile new games. Pinball game Roundguard from Wonderbelly Games joined the Apple Arcade gaming catalog on Friday.  The game is a dungeon crawler-style pinball game in which you must fight off monsters in order to win loot. Even if you …

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