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Apple Arcade is Apple's subscription gaming service, offering unlimited access to a curated library of ad-free, no-in-app-purchase games across Apple devices.
Hipster Whale's Crossy Road Rush launches November 5 only on Apple Arcade, with online races for up to four players. Since the game is offered nowhere else, an online race fills only when every friend in the group has Arcade too.
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Every paid tier down to 50GB now carries both services for up to five family members. Apple is cancelling standalone Apple TV and Arcade subscriptions in those countries, and closing Apple One to new customers.
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According to Bloomberg, Apple's iPhone game controllers will carry the Beats logo instead of Apple's, and Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Beats executives are overseeing the project.
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The practical result of Monday's reshuffle is that store rules, developer pricing and antitrust concessions report up through the executive whose division books the store's revenue. Developers are negotiating with a different desk now.
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Phil Schiller's exit moves app approvals and revenue-share policy out of marketing, where they sat since 2015, and into the services organisation that books the money, with Carson Oliver running the store day to day.
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