Crossy Road Castle is available now on Apple Arcade.
Crossy Road Castle is available now on Apple Arcade.
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Hipster Whale’s Crossy Road Castle brings goofy laughs to Apple Arcade

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hipster Whale is known for zany mobile games like Crossy Road and Pac-Man 256. And last Thursday, the Melbourne, Australia-based studio released Crossy Road Castle for Apple Arcade.

It’s the latest way that Apple is luring gamers to its $5 a month subscription service, and it’s will test whether its steady drip, drip, drip of high-quality mobile games will help drive a new business model for games. The Apple Arcade title is available on the iPhone, iPad, Macs, and Apple TV.

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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.