{"id":11489,"date":"2025-05-29T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/noxplay1748487172GMNudMMPKsRiyl1trLnvQ"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:52:53","slug":"noxplay1748487172GMNudMMPKsRiyl1trLnvQ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/noxplay1748487172GMNudMMPKsRiyl1trLnvQ\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Planning To Release Gaming App Near Nintendo Switch 2&#8217;s Launch &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">There&#8217;s reportedly a new dedicated gaming app from Apple planned for all of its devices&#8211;from iPhone to Apple TV&#8211;that the company looks to launch around Nintendo Switch 2&#8217;s release on June 5. The app sounds like a mix of a store launcher to pick up games as well as a social hub to replace Game Center.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to <a rel=\"nofollow \" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">Bloomberg<\/a>, this will be a major push from Apple to appeal to players and game developers. The app will apparently feature achievements, leaderboards, and social features. Additionally, the Mac version supposedly will include games bought and downloaded from other storefronts. Rumblings of a dedicated gaming app first appeared late last year at <a rel=\"nofollow \" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">9to5Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s not all from Apple on the gaming front, either. Earlier this week, the company acquired Sneaky Sasquatch maker RAC7, per <a rel=\"nofollow \" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">Digital Trends<\/a>. The purchase of the two-person studio is reportedly the first time Apple has ever bought a gaming developer. Sneaky Sasquatch is one of the most popular games on the subscription service <a style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">Apple Arcade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The dedicated gaming app also comes almost five years after <a style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">Fortnite maker Epic took Apple (and Google) to court<\/a> over App Store policies that didn&#8217;t allow for companies to get direct payment from users. In fact, <a style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">Fortnite finally returned to iOS<\/a> in the US just over a week ago after almost a half-decade off the platform.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Apple has also spent years <a style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">touting its gaming pedigree<\/a>, even stating <a style=\"text-decoration:none;color:black;\">the iPhone 15 Pro was going to be the best gaming console<\/a> in 2023. 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You can run NoxPlayer perfectly on commonly-used operating systems like Windows 7, 8, 10, 11, and iOS.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Visit our site to learn more about NoxPlayer : <a href=\"www.bignox.com\">www.bignox.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bignox.com\/en\/download\/fullPackage?formal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13470 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/res09.bignox.com\/appcenter\/en\/gp-game-image\/fc69ed2b06f33aaf3d9ebe89e051f3d4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1104\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<section data-v-12600b54=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-12600b54=\"\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:Gamespot<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s reportedly a new dedicated gaming app fro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bignox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}