Apple is ready to replace Game Center with a more Xbox-like gaming app

Apple plans to denote an app focused connected video games for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV astatine its Worldwide Developer Conference adjacent week, according to Bloomberg. The app volition fto you motorboat games you’ve installed connected your devices and service arsenic a hub for things similar achievements and leaderboards.

Apple is expected to motorboat its gaming app alongside the adjacent mentation of iOS this September, Bloomberg reports. It volition seemingly regenerate Apple’s Game Center, diagnostic editorial content, and fto you entree games besides disposable connected the App Store. A 9to5Mac study from past year described the app arsenic moving likewise to the Xbox app for iPhone. 

A Mac mentation of the caller app volition fto users “tap into games downloaded extracurricular of the App Store,” Bloomberg says.

Bloomberg’s study follows quality that Apple bought its archetypal gaming studio. The institution confirmed to Digital Trends that it acquired RAC7, the two-person workplace down Sneaky Sasquatch, 1 of the archetypal games released connected its Apple Arcade games subscription service. RAC7 won’t beryllium folding into immoderate different teams astatine the company, but volition alternatively proceed to run arsenic a crippled workplace each its own, according to Digital Trends.