One of the new features expected for iOS 19 (which we expect now to be named iOS 26) is a new Apple Games app. The Games app will curate games from the App Store and Apple Arcade, as well as blend in some social features like achievements and friends leaderboards from Game Center.
Ahead of its official unveiling at WWDC, Apple is seemingly preparing the way. A new games.apple.com domain has just gone live … although right now it just resolves to a blank page.
Although it is currently only showing an empty page, this is different than before. Non-existent subdomains will result in a ‘Safari Can’t Find The Server’-esque error message. This is what the games.apple.com URL was doing until just a little while ago.
The presence of an empty white page, therefore, is evidence Apple is readying content to go live at the URL soon, perhaps directly after the WWDC keynote concludes in a couple of hours time.
Right now, we aren’t sure exactly what Apple plans to do with the web presence for Apple Games. It could simply be a marketing page which describes what the Games app does. This would be similar to the splash page found at apps.apple.com.
However, the Apple Games domain may go further than that and host web page versions of the titles in its catalog. This would allow people to make sharable links that reference particular Apple Games content, viewable in a web browser, not just inside the native app.
We’ll know for sure very soon. Apple will likely announce the Games app as part of the iOS 19 announcements during the WWDC keynote, which kicks off at 10 AM Pacific Time. We are expecting the Games app to be launched on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Stay tuned to 9to5Mac for full coverage of all the news.
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