Apple held an event last week in which the company introduced new gaming options on its platform. The “Gaming Experience Event” took place According to Japanese Apple blog Macotakara took place in New York City and addressed media representatives and, of course, industry employees as well.
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Current hardware and games
As stated, the meeting was about gaming on central Apple platforms such as iOS, iPadOS and macOS, with Apple also presenting innovations in iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia. According to Macotakara, during the “experience” you can try out various new and current titles on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPad Pro M4, MacBook Pro (14 and 16) with M3, MacBook Air M3 and iMac (M3). These include “Biohazard 7 Resident Evil” from Capcom, “Frostpunk 2” from 11 bit, “Assassin’s Creed Mirage” from Ubisoft and “Diablo Immortal” from Blizzard – all titles that are already available. You can also check out “Palworld” by PocketPlayer, which is due to be released this year.
Apple also introduced various gaming hardware such as Backbone One Mobile Gaming Controllerwhich is now also available in the second generation with USB-C for the iPhone 15. You can also test how the new Game Mode feels, which Apple is now bringing to the iPhone to reduce latency and make all the hardware available for gaming (and reduce background processes).
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According to Macotakara, it was also interesting to use the iPad Pro M4 with a Sony DualSense controller, the color of which matched “Midnight Black”. Apple emphasized that the Game Mode in iOS 18, which is also in iPadOS 18, among other things, doubles the polling rate for Bluetooth gaming hardware. According to the company, this allows for even more accurate play. Audio latency has also been reduced.
Apple also announced that macOS 15 requires less free memory to download games from the Mac App Store, which is very useful for large titles. It will also be possible to outsource parts to an external medium. “PALworld” uses Unreal Engine 5 and the latest incarnation of Metal, including HDR and MetalFX upscaling. With the Game Porting Toolkit 2, which will be released in September with iOS 18 and Co., games can also be ported more easily to mobile platforms. According to Apple, its “Unified Gaming Platform” now reaches almost 100 million devices. CrossOver Macs were also seen being used in New York to run Steam titles from Windows.
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