At WWDC 2025, Apple announced Games, a new preinstalled app for iPhone, iPad, Mac computers and Apple TV boxes — showing a greater commitment to the video game industry than ever before.

The Games app will provide a streamlined App Store experience for gamers using Apple devices, creating a new specialized storefront just for mobile games. The App Store won’t be rendered obsolete, since you’ll still need to access it for non-gaming app downloads.

The app provides users multiple tabs to manage their gaming experience on Apple devices. The streamlined interface includes Home, Apple Arcade, Library and Play Together tabs, as well as a search feature that will allow you to delve into a dedicated game storefront.

The Games app’s Home tab allows gamers to quickly check out new events and updates for the best mobile games they frequently play, while the Library tab lets users scroll through any game they’ve ever downloaded from the App Store.

The new app will also serve as a hub for Apple’s other recent endeavor in the gaming space, Apple Arcade. This curated gaming subscription service launched in September 2019, and allows subscribers to download and play hundreds of games handpicked by Apple employees. The Apple Arcade includes some of the biggest indie successes and retro gaming ports, as well as classic fan-favorites from the App Store with some additional bells and whistles.

The Games app is a hybrid gaming app store and social hub, making it much more front and center than the Game Center application that Apple has been using for gaming. Game Center functionality has been buried within Apple’s mobile device settings, but it’s possible that this new hub fares better now that Apple has built out a scaffolding of mobile gaming infrastructure with Apple Arcade.

The Game Center leaderboards will be revamped and integrated into the new Games application through the Play Together feature. Within the Play Together tab, people will be able to keep up with what their friends are playing, compare achievements and high scores and invite other gamers to multiplayer games.

The announcement of the Games hub comes on the heels of Apple’s acquisition of RAC7, the development studio responsible for Sneaky Sasquatch. An investment in first-party developers could signal that Apple wants to pursue some level of gaming exclusivity on their platforms.

Stay up to date on all of Apple’s announcements with CNET’s WWDC 2025 live blog.

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