iOS 784: App Store Awards: Games - Apple Recognizes 2025's Best App Store Games
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The App Store Awards are in, and this year's breakout games are shaking up what we expect on iOS, iPad, and even Apple Vision Pro. See which titles are worthy of the hype, who's pushing boundaries, and why the winners really matter for Apple device owners.
- Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Wins iPhone Game of the Year
- Dredge Named iPad Game of the Year: Sinister Fishing Adventure
- Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition Takes Mac Game of the Year
- Apple Vision Pro Game Spotlight: Portals and Puzzle-Solving in Porta Newbie
- What the Clash Tops Apple Arcade Picks for Multiplayer Fun
- Cultural Impact Winners: Art of Fauna, Chants of Senar, Despalote
- iFixit Launches FixBot App for DIY Repairs and Battery Tracking
- Shortcuts Corner: How to Backup and Restore Apple Shortcuts
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, just leave on work now. Sorry, it's a bit loud. |
| 0:03.3 | Um, basically, so I was thinking we could get Macies tonight. Had a big Mac on my mind all day, and delivery fee on the app is now from 99P. So you win? Of course you are. Love you. Bye! Exclusively on the McDonald's app. 18 plus, service fee and small order fee may apply. Participating restaurants. Serving times and teas and seas apply. Coming up on iOS today, we're back with the second part of the App Store Awards. |
| 0:24.3 | This time, it's all about the games. |
| 0:26.9 | Yes, the games that won the App Store Awards this year. |
| 0:31.3 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:34.5 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:36.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:38.6 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:42.4 | This is iOS Today, episode 784, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 for Thursday, January 8th, |
| 0:56.5 | 2026. |
| 0:58.0 | App Store Awards Games. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello and welcome to iOS today. |
| 1:03.0 | This is the show where we talk all things. |
| 1:05.0 | iOS, iPad, OS, watchOS, home part of us, send all the OSs that Apple has to offer. |
| 1:10.0 | These are, this is the time where we give you some advice on, you know, games to check out, apps |
| 1:16.2 | to download, gadgets to buy, settings to change and everything in between so that you are |
| 1:21.7 | making the most of those Apple devices you own. |
| 1:25.0 | I am one of your hosts. |
| 1:26.3 | My name is Micah Sargent. |
| 1:28.3 | And my name is Rosemary Ochoid, and I'm here, Micah, and I'm ready to play. |
| 1:32.3 | Let's play! Yes, so I will remind you all about the App Store Awards. Now, as I mentioned |
| 1:41.3 | before, if this is, you know, it's been a while since, at least a week since I reminded you last time, the App Store awards are different from the awards that Apple hands out to at the Worldwide Developers Conference. At that conference, Apple is handing out awards to really kind of acknowledge the developers who are making use of Apple's technologies. And so those apps often are kind of clever |
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