Apple’s App Store rules limit rival gaming services while Arcade runs free

Apple Arcade video game subscription service signage is displayed on an iPhone in New York, US. The new offerings from Microsoft, Nvidia and Google are cloud streaming-based, while Apple Arcade is not. — Bloomberg

Video game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Nvidia Corp.

But for the more than one billion users of Apple’s iPhone and iPad, the only real option is Arcade, the subscription service launched by the company in September.