Arcade and profile looks
At a glance
- Improved:
Streak placement: The streak flame now sits right after the game's name in every minigame, on desktop and mobile.
- Improved:
Living flame: Once you've played a game today, its flame flickers. Under reduced motion it stays still.
- New:
Daily celebration: After your first finished game of the day, the page dims, a flame rises, counts up your streak and flies into its place.
- Improved:
Snake rankings: Blender runs no longer create leaderboard entries or appear in ranked setup lists.
- Improved:
Personal play: Blender gameplay, personal records, coins and achievements are unchanged.
- New:
Banner themes: Recolour your showcase’s backdrop, lighting and details with Tidepool, Verdant, Nocturne, Rosewood or Aurum.
- New:
Profile frames: Gilded filigree, Silver deco, Bronze briar and Rune ward frame the outside of your showcase.
- Improved:
Saved looks: Each saved look remembers its banner theme and frame.
New features
Once a day, after a real finish
The celebration plays once per account and UTC day, after the first game the server confirms as finished (a recorded score, or a solved Sudoku). Retries, other tabs and later games that day do not replay it. With reduced motion it simply fades in, swaps the number and fades out. Streak rules, coins and recoveries are unchanged.
Banner themes
A banner theme changes the colours, light and pattern of your profile showcase. The rest of the site keeps your own theme. The Original backdrop stays free and remains the default.
- Five themes in the Arcade shop, each with its own palette and pattern.
- Names, titles and badges stay readable in light and dark site themes.
Profile frames
Ornamental corners and a fine edge drawn around your showcase. The showcase makes room for them, so they never cover your name, badges, artwork, centerpiece or buttons.
- Four frames in the Arcade shop.
- Frames are separate from artwork frames and don’t change your covers.
Improvements
Fewer boards, clearer competition
Blender is now unranked, including mixes with just one selected mode. Existing mixed leaderboard boards are no longer browsable, while personal bests remain saved. Individual Snake modes and daily challenges keep their rankings.
Choose them while arranging your showcase
Arrange showcase now has Banner theme and Profile frame pickers with a live preview. Items you don’t own yet are shown locked. Each saved look keeps its own theme and frame. Equipping one in the shop adds it to the look you’re wearing.