Apple Arcade’s November line-up has three games, and all of them arrive on November 5. The headline is Crossy Road Rush, a new entry in the Crossy Road series that will be exclusive to Apple’s subscription service, MobileGamer.biz reports.
Crossy Road Rush
Atari and Hipster Whale describe the game as an arcade-action platforming runner. It can be played by up to four people, either around a single device or online. For solo play there is an adventure mode with 50 stages and a survival mode, along with a range of things to unlock.
Two existing games, reworked
- Kami 2, a relaxed colour puzzle game from State of Play.
- Food Stylist, from Zeste.
Both are already on the App Store. The versions joining Apple Arcade are reworked editions with the ads and the in-app purchases removed.
The Atari connection
Crossy Road Rush arrives a few months after Atari bought Hipster Whale, in June. The deal was worth an initial 29.3 million dollars, 3.3 million of it in Atari shares, plus up to 10 million more over three years if the studio meets its targets, according to MobileGamer.biz.
Hipster Whale co-founder Matt Hall has suggested the studio could bring back classic Atari games such as Pong, Breakout, Centipede and Missile Command, although nothing has been confirmed.
Why it matters
The original Crossy Road was a free-to-play hit on phones. That its successor launches inside a subscription, with no ads and nothing to buy, says a lot about where part of the mobile market for paid games has moved.
This article was written with AI assistance from the sources linked above.
