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Apple Arcade

As the old cliché states, you can’t get cheaper than free, and that’s certainly true on the App Store. There’s 100,000s of free games to be downloaded that ask nothing more from you than your time. But this creates a dilemma for developers. Games that are bought up front, as opposed to being free to play with in-game extras bought with in-app purchases, tend to get lost under the sheer weight of free titles. Apple have changed this with Apple Arcade. Which lets developers finance their games in a new way, as well as giving the gamer an excellent range of apps for a monthly fee.

Apple Arcade is a subscription service covering both mobile and desktop devices. Subscribers

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