It's now been a few weeks since Antstream Arcade arrived on Xbox, and it seems to be going down a treat so far! The cloud-based service shows no signs of slowing down either, with more features and games coming very soon.
Let's start with those features. As revealed in the video you see above, the Antstream Arcade team has already implemented various improvements on Xbox including a faster browsing experience for the menus along with a few bug fixes. Another major feature that's coming soon is the ability to remap the controls for every single title in Antstream Arcade's 1400+ game library, which has been a popular request over the past few weeks.
And finally, Antstream will soon become available in Australia and Brazil, with more countries to follow in the coming months / years.
In terms of games, Antstream Arcade has actually added various new titles since the Xbox launch including the 1997 PS1 shooter MDK, 1993 arcade brawler Night Slashers and 1991 beat 'em up First Samurai, just to name a few.
Many more upcoming games were teased as part of the recent July 2023 Antstream Connect, including loads of original PlayStation titles. One of the PS1 games that we'll be seeing on Antstream Arcade before the end of August is Glover, which you may recall as a popular platform game back in the late '1990s.
For more details on these, you can watch the Antstream Connect July 2023 stream down below. We've also highlighted some of those upcoming PS1 games elsewhere on Pure Xbox:
If you're interested in Antstream Arcade, the standard year-long subscription is available on the Xbox Store at a reasonable price of £29.99 / $29.99, or you can pick up the "Lifetime Pass Edition" for £79.99 / $79.99.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on the service down in the comments section below!
Have You Tried Antstream Arcade Yet? What Do You Think? (328 votes)
- It's amazing, I'm loving it!
- It's pretty good, I'm happy enough
- It's OK, don't love it though
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Would Night Slashers be the japanese version? Or at least is it possible to choose? The international version was incredibly censored.
Glover is coming natively to Xbox too right?
How do ya get this on Xbox??? I can’t find it anywhere!! You’d think they put it right there wen ya open the Xbox store but nope, Xbox don’t do advertising!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
MDK 😍❤️ I hope it's not affected by too much lag.
I love this service, highly recommend it to anyone interested in retro games. The controller response is way better than any other cloud service I've ever tried too.
@Backagen https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/store/antstream-arcade-lifetime-pass-edition/9PKVNQRL9NQ1
The annual pass is below this when you scroll down too. But do yourself a favour and just get the lifetime one. 🤟🏻
Loving it. Old Amiga and c64 games. Plus the arcade titles. In most cases completely lag free( 1 game in 5 hours play). Love the giant slayer challenges too. Improvements to the front end and the search functions going forward would be nice
Still on the fence, even though my first PC were Commodore 128/Amiga 500/1000
I'm waiting for a Trial of some kind just to see if the cloud works fine with my cornfield Wi-Fi. Not something I'd pay for every month, let alone a lifetime, but definitely interesting enough to where I'd pay for a month now and then.
The search engine can use an update. I still can’t see all 1400+ games at once to scroll through. We should also be able to filter from A-Z, Z-A, New to Old, Old to New and by each console or Platform.
Also Colecovision, Intellivision, Sega Master System and Turbographx-16 would be nice additions! Thx
It’s pretty good, but navigation / organisation needs a lot of work. The good is that it’s lag free. The bad is finding games & even basic navigation is laborious - Eg if you want to scroll to the right side of the screen, you can’t just hold right on the dpad - you have to tap right every time! This is insane if the list is 1400+!
Still I think it will get better 😺 bezels option, remap controls & better navigation will hopefully come in the future..🎮🚀🎧🐬🌈
They release a couple of new games every Tuesday and you can request games through their website here... https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKLBqg1s4daGQz5hciOyOM6dwg4Sqq2rCaDDArCE3gRonfhg/viewform?usp=sf_link
They are very active on Discord too, always listening and responding to your ideas and bug reports. Great service so far.
But can we get the Namco games please? Come on Xbox/Namco!
There are a few games I enjoy playing, but it’s mostly stuff that was big in the UK in the 80s. Would love some The Last Ninja in 64 for example or beyond the forbidden Forrest. I don’t know anyone in the US that had a zx spectrum…but I understand England loved it
Fantastic Service!
Great retro titles from yesteryear and some good classics on there. It has a good discord community that are helpful and these monthly Video updates are cool and informative as of what's to come. Made a few mates in the discord due to competing in High Scores for tournaments and they give out prizes in these Tournaments. Currently there is an X Box Series X up for grabs and T shirts. Plus a good selection of Lucas Arts Point and clicks on there so that's cool.
They really need to fix the membership issue. I want to be able to play on my tablet or phone without having to pay for a 2nd subscription. How hard can it be!?
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