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Apple Arcade exclusives will receive funding from Apple

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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When Apple announced that it was launching Apple Arcade as a gaming subscription today (without revealing a price), it took a deeper step into the game business than it has ever done before by funding new titles.

Apple will commission and fund games for the service, and these exclusives won’t appear anywhere else. They’ll just be on the Apple Arcade subscription service. They won’t even be available as paid individual apps in the iOS app store.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.