HALF-FOLD YOUR IPHONE DUO Fold the Duo halfway and every menu and shop splits in two: what you read stands up on the top half, every button lies flat under your thumbs. Matches stay full screen. CLEANER MENUS • Tactics, Standings, Leaderboards and the rulebook now fit the Duo's open screen, with nothing hidden behind the BACK button • Pop-up buttons are solid — nothing shows through from the screen behind • Gym stat cards no longer print their price over the description

MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Steel Ball Brawl now fills the Duo's big inner screen, and keeps playing on the outer screen when you fold it shut. Every menu fits too, with nothing cut off at the edges. A CLEARER VIEW The clock and signal icons no longer sit over the game. And on iPad, the main menu's bottom row and the Achievements screen are no longer clipped or overlapping.

NO MORE PHANTOM MATCHES If your opponent's connection dropped while Game Center was pairing you, the game could put you into a match with nobody in it and leave you sitting on the opponent screen forever. Now it says so and puts you back in the lobby, so you can go straight back to searching instead of waiting on somebody who was never coming.

QUEUE UP AND GO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE Waiting for an online match used to mean sitting on a searching screen hoping somebody appeared. Now you can queue instead: pick 15, 30 or 60 minutes, then go play a career fixture, run the daily, or close the game entirely. We hold your spot. WE'LL TELL YOU WHEN THERE'S A GAME The moment a real opponent turns up — whether they queue too or just tap 1V1 ONLINE — you get a notification. Tap it and you go straight into the match. If you're mid-game when it lands, a banner asks whether you want to join now or finish what you're doing; carry on and it won't interrupt that match again. YOU CAN SEE YOUR QUEUE, AND LEAVE IT The multiplayer menu shows how long you've got left — QUEUED 24M — and so does the main menu, so you always know you're still in. One tap shows the countdown and lets you leave. Getting into a match ends it for you automatically. STILL SEARCHING? SWITCH. A minute into a 1V1 search with nobody about, the game offers to swap you into the queue instead, so you can stop waiting and go and do something better. Or keep looking — your call, and it won't nag. Plus: a search that fails now tells you why instead of quietly closing the door.

WINNING FINALLY LOOKS LIKE WINNING A golden trophy now slams onto every victory — solo, online, local two-player and the daily — with a spark burst to match. And if you own a goal celebration from the Plating Bay, it fires over the result screen too: the flourish you bought follows you off the pitch. CHAMPIONS GET A PODIUM Win Division 1 and the season now closes with CHAMPIONS!, the podium and your title prize — no more quiet "season over". Winning the promotion playoff slams PROMOTED! and finally says out loud what it grants: THE BRUTAL HALLS, UNLOCKED FOREVER. LOCAL TWO-PLAYER NAMES ITS WINNER PLAYER 1 WINS! or PLAYER 2 WINS! — whoever takes the couch crown gets the gold banner, the trophy and the sparks. AN HONEST SETTINGS ROW BRUTAL HALLS in settings now tells the truth: LOCKED with the reason (it is the only place the game says what reaching Division 1 is worth), or UNLOCKED — the halls themselves are picked per match in quick play, standard tile or brutal tile, side by side. EVERYTHING FROM 1.3, IF YOU MISSED IT THE PLATING BAY, REBUILT — seven racks under their own tabs, four of them new: shot TRAILS, two-tone TRIM, GOAL CELEBRATIONS and TEAM EMBLEMS. All cosmetic, all bought with gems, and gems come from playing. A HUMAN KEEPER — he misplaces himself like a person, only saves what he can actually reach, and holds his ground until you knock the ball loose properly. Your own keeper is deliberately mortal too: dive him yourself and you'll beat what the AI wouldn't. THE BALL HAS WEIGHT — carrying costs a touch of speed from the first step and more the longer you hold it, and the ball stays in your hands whichever way you stop and face. THE CAREER FIGHTS BACK — difficulty follows your progress, your menu setting still counts as a floor, and playing above a fixture's default pays the harder level's XP, called out on the result card. DIVISION 1 PAYS FOREVER — reach the top flight once and the brutal halls stay unlocked outside career for good; relegation and restarts can't take them back. ANNOUNCEMENTS WITH IMPACT — GO!, HALF TIME and GOAL slam onto neon steel plates, the door pick-up seals the whole arch behind an energy field, and the referee whistle is a real recording. QUALITY OF LIFE — swipe right to go back anywhere in the menus, double-tap to equip in the Plating Bay, the daily goes straight to today's match, in-match settings open in their own popup, low-stamina players glow amber, and HOW TO PLAY explains the control modes, XP, gems and the divisions. Plus the 1.2 wave that shipped inside 1.3: ten achievements with gem bounties (mirrored to Game Center), pause-menu substitutions with a sideline run-in, the skill shot, one game with three brains, free practice your way, and a gem bounty on every XP level.

THE PLATING BAY, REBUILT Seven racks under their own tabs — and four of them are new. TRAILS colour the comet behind your hardest shots. TRIM makes any kit two-tone, recolouring your squad's armour plating. GOAL CELEBRATIONS fire your own flourish over every goal you score. TEAM EMBLEMS stamp your crest on the centre circle. All cosmetic, all bought with gems, and gems come from playing. A HUMAN KEEPER The AI keeper now misplaces himself like a person — more on EASY, barely on HARD — and only saves what he can actually reach. Your own keeper is deliberately mortal too: dive him yourself and you'll beat what the AI wouldn't. Walking through the keeper is over as well — he holds his ground unless you knock the ball loose properly. THE BALL HAS WEIGHT Carrying costs a touch of speed from the first step and more the longer you hold it — and the ball now stays in your hands whichever way you stop and face. ANNOUNCEMENTS WITH IMPACT GO!, HALF TIME, GOAL and every other call now slam onto a neon steel plate — squash, flash and all. Even WIGGLE TO BREAK FREE got dressed. THE GOAL GATE The door pick-up now seals the whole arch behind an energy field, fitted to the stonework exactly. THE CAREER FIGHTS BACK Difficulty now follows your progress: early Division 2 plays easy, its top teams play medium, and Division 1 steps up to hard against the best. Your menu setting still counts — as a floor, never a ceiling — and playing above a fixture's default pays the harder level's XP, called out right on the result card. DIVISION 1 PAYS FOREVER Reach the top flight once and the brutal halls stay unlocked outside career for good — relegation and career restarts can't take them back. QUALITY OF LIFE The daily chip goes straight to today's match (with a countdown to the next), in-match settings open in their own popup, teammate arrows mark only off-screen men, low-stamina players glow amber, the position letter always rides the player you control, the career result names gold, gems and XP, the referee whistle is a real recording, and HOW TO PLAY explains the CONTROL modes, XP, gems and the divisions. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE (1.2) ACHIEVEMENTS — ten of them, from your first win to a hundred-point match, each paying a gem bounty, mirrored to Game Center. SUBSTITUTIONS — pause and rotate any man for the bench; fresh legs sprint in from the sideline, and wounds travel with the man. THE SKILL SHOT — a full-power throw now sails over the bar; the shot over the keeper is a timing you can miss both ways. ONE GAME, THREE BRAINS — EASY and MEDIUM play the same rules HARD does, with gentler brains behind the other team. FREE PRACTICE, YOUR WAY — practice picks its hall, tactic and shape on the way in, brutal halls included. THE LADDER PAYS — every XP level lands with a gem bounty beside its unlock. Plus a day of fixes from playing on real devices, from chip labels to the attract demo's timer.

The first release. Five-a-side future sport. A daily match the whole world plays, a career to build across a league season and a cup, an XP ladder that opens new halls and formations, online play through Game Center, Bluetooth controller support, and iCloud sync between your own devices.