As many of you are well aware, today kicked off Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, aka WWDC 2022, aka Dub Dub. While this has historically been a pretty big event in terms of mobile gaming announcements, it feels like recent years have lacked any major gaming news and with the conference being held virtually for the third year in a row now, there’s not even the in-person aspect of meeting up with developers that usually makes up the bulk of our coverage of a typical WWDC. All this to say that, while I did watch this morning’s keynote there just wasn’t all that much gaming-related stuff to post about here on TouchArcade. In fact the biggest news on the gaming front was during the macOS portion of the show, where it was announced that Resident Evil Village and No Man’s Sky would be heading to the Mac and would be utilizing the brand new Metal 3 framework in the new macOS release.
Except, as usual, Apple buried the lede on this news as not only is No Man’s Sky coming to the Mac, but it’s also coming to iPads according to , as spotted by user mastery51 .
This sort of underlines how much Apple misunderstands gaming, or possibly just really doesn’t care about it at all. No Man’s Sky coming to the iPad would be a huge deal, worth mentioning even in passing during the keynote, but instead it’s a bit of info that’s relegated to an online press release. It also seems that Metal 3 will be restricted to only Apple Silicon devices, so I’m guessing you’ll need an M1-equipped iPad if you want to play No Man’s Sky when it comes out. Whatever the case, this is a long time coming as a No Man’s Sky mobile port has been rumored for literally half a decade, so it’s exciting to see one finally come to fruition, even if Apple didn’t deem it worthy enough to mention during their big keynote today.
Except, as usual, Apple buried the lede on this news as not only is No Man’s Sky coming to the Mac, but it’s also coming to iPads according to , as spotted by user mastery51 .
This sort of underlines how much Apple misunderstands gaming, or possibly just really doesn’t care about it at all. No Man’s Sky coming to the iPad would be a huge deal, worth mentioning even in passing during the keynote, but instead it’s a bit of info that’s relegated to an online press release. It also seems that Metal 3 will be restricted to only Apple Silicon devices, so I’m guessing you’ll need an M1-equipped iPad if you want to play No Man’s Sky when it comes out. Whatever the case, this is a long time coming as a No Man’s Sky mobile port has been rumored for literally half a decade, so it’s exciting to see one finally come to fruition, even if Apple didn’t deem it worthy enough to mention during their big keynote today.