Overview

• The app replaces Game Center as the main gateway to gaming on Apple devices, unifying App Store titles, Mac games and Apple Arcade under one interface.
• It offers personalized recommendations and curated editorial collections based on users’ play history and friends’ activities.
• ‘Challenges’ enables friends to compete in score-based showdowns while ‘Play Together’ provides real-time invites and status updates.
• Mac and iPad users gain a new Game Overlay for in-session access to friend lists, social tools and system controls without exiting gameplay.
• The games.apple.com domain has gone live ahead of the fall launch with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26, following the app’s beta rollout.