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title: Arcade Overview
description: Discover Arcade, the ultimate hub for onchain games. Register, manage, and publish your games with ease --- no permission required.
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# Overview

### TL;DR: Arcade is:

- A unified hub for all your favorite onchain games
- A frictionless bridge between developers and players
- A permissionless platform for game registration and publishing
- Designed to enhance discoverability, engagement, and player experience
- Leverage NFTs for ownership and control of your games and editions

![Arcade Overview](/arcade-inventory.png)

## Key Features

### 🎮 Register a Game

Game studios can register a game freely, without needing permission.
When creating a game for the first time, you'll be asked to provide its metadata and define at least one Game Edition.

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A Game Edition is a version of your game --- it can be deployed on mainnet, testnet, or represent a season or special mode (e.g., Season 1, Mainnet, Playtest, etc.).
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When you register a game or an edition, an NFT representing its ownership is minted.
This NFT grants you admin rights over the game or edition.
You can update the metadata of your game or any edition at any time --- including name, description, icon, image gallery, video, and more.

For technical setup and configuration details, see [Arcade Setup](./setup).

![Register Game](/arcade-register-game.png)

### 🚀 Publish a Game

Once your game is registered, you can publish it to request a review.
After approval, the game will be whitelisted and made publicly visible to all users on the platform.

![Publish Game](/arcade-publish-game.png)

### 🧩 Create and update Game Editions

You can create new editions of your game at any time --- each edition gets its own ownership NFT.
As the game owner, you control which editions are visible or hidden.
As the edition owner, you can choose to publish or hide your edition from public view.

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No permission is required to register an edition in an existin game, meaning anyone can register a new edition to your game such as registering a Game onto Arcade, however you get the control on their visibility.
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![Update Edition](/arcade-update-edition.png)

### 🚀 Publish and whitelist an Edition

As the edition owner you have the ability to publish your edition once created.
Once published, the game owner has the ability to whitelist you Edition to make it public.

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Any update within the Edition will turn off both the publish and the whitelist, the process should be repeat to make it public again
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![Publish Edition](/arcade-publish-edition.png)