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

Apple plans to announce an app targeted on video video games for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV at its Worldwide Developer Convention subsequent week, according to Bloomberg. The app will allow you to launch video games you’ve put in in your units and function a hub for issues like achievements and leaderboards.

Apple is predicted to launch its gaming app alongside the following model of iOS this September, Bloomberg reviews. It is going to apparently change Apple’s Sport Middle, characteristic editorial content material, and allow you to entry video games additionally out there on the App Retailer. A 9to5Mac report from last year described the app as working equally to the Xbox app for iPhone.

A Mac model of the brand new app will let customers “faucet into video games downloaded exterior of the App Retailer,” Bloomberg says.

Bloomberg’s report follows information that Apple purchased its first gaming studio. The corporate confirmed to Digital Trends that it acquired RAC7, the two-person studio behind Sneaky Sasquatch, one of many first video games launched on its Apple Arcade video games subscription service. RAC7 received’t be folding into another groups on the firm, however will as a substitute proceed to function as a recreation studio all its personal, based on Digital Traits.