August 14th, 2026
New
Your most recent Arcade games now greet you the moment you arrive, whether you are signed in or not. Recents gathers everything you have played, created, saved, or edited into one row on the homepage and the new default tab in the “My games” page, so jumping back in takes a single click.
Where to find it
Open the Arcade homepage. Once you have five or more recent games, a Recents row appears near the top, with arrows to scroll through it.
Open My Games. It now starts on the Recents tab, with your full history, however many games you have.
What shows up
The games you have played, created, saved, or edited, most recent first.
Games you made that other people just played. New plays bring a game back to the top, so you can see your class picking it up.
Each game appears as a card you can recognize at a glance and reopen in one click.
Signed out? You will still see the games you have played in this browser.
Good to know
The homepage row stays hidden until you have five or more recent games, so a fresh start never looks cluttered, while the Recents tab in My Games always shows even with a single game. Recents now works for every visitor. Before this, it was limited to a small internal group, and everyone else saw the older Played tab.
August 7th, 2026
New
Now you can put your own images into any game. Drop a photo into the game editor's image picker and it lands right on the card, tile, or clue you're editing.
How to upload
Open a game you created and head to the content tab of the edit panel.
Click the image button on any card, tile, question, or clue.
Drag a photo into the upload area, or click it to pick a file from your device.
Your image shows up as a preview. Hit "Done" to add it to the game.
What you can upload
PNG, JPG, WEBP, HEIC, TIFF, AVIF, BMP, and GIF files, up to 25MB each
One image per card, tile, question, or clue, and you can swap it anytime
Works in every game type that uses images
Keeping it classroom-safe
Every upload is checked automatically before players can see it. If an image gets flagged, only you see a small red marker on it in the editor letting you know it won't be shown to players, so you can swap it out. Players never see a flagged image.
Good to know
The upload area appears in the image picker before you search, so if results are already showing, clear the search to get back to it. Audio uploads aren't available yet, but you can still generate audio in the editor.
August 1st, 2026
New
Multiple choice lets students pick the right answer. Short answer asks them to remember it, by typing their response or saying it out loud.
How to make one
Head to Create and choose Short answer from the game types.
Give it a topic and a grade level, add any details you want covered, and let Arcade build it.
Open the edit panel to fine-tune the questions, the accepted answers, and the settings.
What players get
One question at a time, with an image or an audio clip when it helps
Instant feedback on every answer, plus a short explanation of why it is right
Auto-advance to the next question, so the pace stays brisk
A mic button for speaking an answer instead of typing it
Two settings worth knowing
Exact spelling required. Leave it off and small misspellings still count as correct. Turn it on when the spelling is the whole point, like a vocabulary or spelling bee game.
Audio input. Turn it on and players can dictate their answer with a microphone. Lovely for younger students and for language practice.
Good to know
Every question can hold several accepted answers, so "the check" and "the bill" can both count. Numbers are always matched exactly, so 56 never passes for 57. Games export to PDF, and results download from the leaderboard as a CSV that includes the answers players spoke out loud.
July 24th, 2026
New
You can now download any game's leaderboard as a CSV, right from the leaderboard view. Every player's scores, answers, and times land in one spreadsheet, ready for grading or your gradebook.
How to export
The download button appears on desktop devices, on games you created, once the current version of your game has at least one play. The export covers plays on the current version.
Open a game you created and head to its leaderboard.
Click the download button next to the settings icon.
That's it. Your CSV downloads instantly, with one row per attempt.
What's in the file
A column for every question, with the correct answer right in the header
Each player's answer to every question
Score, percentage, time, attempt number, and completion date for every play
An average row at the bottom, so you can read the whole class at a glance
Works with every game type
All game types are supported. Each type exports in the way that makes sense: Flashcards show "Got it" or "Missed" per card, Sequencing shows the order each card was placed, and time-based games like Memory Tiles focus on completion time.
July 7th, 2026
You can now lock any game to prevent players from playing. A small lock icon next to the game title toggles it on and off instantly. When a game is locked, the play button is replaced with a "Locked" message and no one can begin playing. Pair it with Live Activity to wait until every student has joined before unlocking, or lock a game after class to close it to new plays. Unlock anytime with one click.
June 22nd, 2026
Did you know you can export many of our games as PDFs to use as worksheets in the classroom? Take an existing game like a crossword or word search, click “Share” > “Export” > “Export to PDF” to get a downloadable and printable version of your game.
PDFs are not available for memory tile and flashcard games at the moment. Every other game type is supported.
June 11th, 2026
Improved
Say hello to Piper 2, our upgraded game generator and a big improvement in the quality and accuracy of games created on Arcade. Read the full story behind it on our blog.
Answers you can trust. Before a game reaches you, Piper checks its own work and fixes correctness or fidelity issues, so answers are right and the game matches what you asked for.
Better images. A dedicated image engine picks accurate visuals, including tricky structured ones like an analog clock at 8:27 or a simple circuit with a switch.
Grounded in real facts. When a topic calls for it, Piper searches the web so games about current events, recent discoveries, or niche specifics (think state civics or species-level science) come out topical and accurate. For broad, well-established topics like the water cycle, it skips the search and builds right away.
Just enter your topic and build like always. All the quality work happens behind the scenes.
June 9th, 2026
New
Exploring our community library of games? Open any community game and the new info panel lays out everything you need to decide if it’s right for your class: grade level, subject, estimated play time, item count, and a description.
You’ll also see how many teachers have played, saved, and copied it, so you can trust what’s working. Found a keeper? Hit “Create a copy” to get your own editable version with a fresh leaderboard for your students.
May 25th, 2026
Another new game! Crossword joins word search in Arcade’s growing list of game types.
Describe a topic or upload a file, pick crossword, and Arcade builds a custom puzzle in seconds. Every clue can have audio and images too, which makes the game friendlier for early readers and language learners. Clues don't have to be straight definitions either, so feel free to get sneaky. Write them as riddles, quotes from a character, or hints that point at the answer.
Happy puzzling!
May 22nd, 2026
New
Word search is now available in Arcade!
Describe a topic or upload a file, pick word search, and Arcade builds a custom puzzle in seconds. Refine the clues and words using the editor then share it with your friends or students.
The clues in the word search don’t always have to match the word, so you can come up with some fun twists on the game. For example you could make the clue a population number then the player has to figure out which country it is and find it in the grid.