The cloud-streaming retro paradise known as Antstream Arcade is continuing to go from strength to strength across all of its platforms including Xbox right now, with a bunch of new games and major features on the way.
We highlighted a lot of these features in our last roundup about Antstream, such as a much-improved user interface along with button remapping and "intuitive game filters", but now the team has finally shown a lot of these features off as part of the Antstream Arcade October Connect presentation which you can watch up above.
In terms of new games coming to Antstream Arcade, there's a lot to talk about! The presentation highlights a few of them - the Atari classic Pong is one of the new additions, as is the SNES game Super Turrican Score Attack. Another SNES game that was unreleased until 2023 is action-platformer Mr. Tuff, while other titles making their way to the service include Rival Turf!, BurglarX and the Point Blank-style Bang!.
Even with all of this in mind, Antstream often adds games that haven't been announced ahead of time as well - just recently, we've had the PS1 version of Worms, the Game Boy version of Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and much more.
If you're interested, we've gone and updated our massive list of every single game included with Antstream Arcade on Xbox, and you can grab it for a price of £29.99 / $29.99 for a year's access, or go for the lifetime access instead.
Have you tried Antstream on Xbox yet? Tell us what you think of it down in the comments below.
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On paper it's an interesting service and good to have many types of game preservation, including subscriptions.
But I can't get past the fact this has to be the worst way to play retro games from an environmental standpoint.
These games are often just a few megabytes, or even kilobytes, in size and would run on a microwaved potato. Yet here they run on a server farm and will stream gigabytes of data to a console that runs at about 145W. Inefficient doesn't even begin to describe it.
@themightyant Get a Raspberri Pi4 with a great 512gb build and you’ve got almost everything. I have a great Wolfanoz build with aprox 18k games including arcade cabinets.
I want to love this so much but I just can't with the streaming.
It would be so awesome if you could just download the game for whenever you play and just delete it afterwards.
@senote I'm pretty sure there is a section that says NEW GAMES ADDED?? They also add their new games every Tuesday.
I've been using this for a few months now without any issues. I'm a huge SHMUP fan and there are some great titles on there.
@Kaloudz What? These games are all properly licensed.
Hopefully the improve dreadful, laggy interface which is an absolute horror to navigate.
@OrfeasDourvas And downloading the games would be so fast that you usually wouldn't even notice that it's happening, seeing as most of them are smaller than one second of streamed video!
@Bleacdemon my mate got one of these randomly off sumone when went to buy something else🤣 any idea where best place to buy one is? Must have every sega Nintendo game etc n several other old consoles games I. It lol
Love this service and so happy it came to Xbox. I'm picky about the games I play and I found at least a dozen in Antstream that I added to my favorites. The challenges are fun, and the servers keep track of your high scores and such. Glad to hear an update is coming that will hopefully make it a bit more intuitive for Xbox.
I got the annual subscription but thinking of upgrading to lifetime if that's possible. It's a better value than a lot of EA and 2K games at the same price, lol.
@Kaloudz You won't (or likely won't) find Nintendo published games on this service. But games not published by Nintendo but happened to be on Nintendo consoles could still be licensed for AntStream.
@Decimateh Buy a Raspberry Pi4 online. Get a blank microSD card with it. And check the ArcadePunks.com website. Lots of great image-files for lots of platforms to write on a microSD card. Totally free. For me it’s retro heaven.
@Bleacdemon thanks for replying IL check it out 😎 although have to see if mate can get me the games as don't have pc or owt🤣 thanks for letting me know where to get one and the games though 😁
@Decimateh You’re welcome. Most images are torrents and the very big ones need some patience but it’s worth it. I have a backup of, I think, the best image (512GB) there is for Raspberry Pi4. I am willing to share it with you if you know a free sharing site where I can upload such a big file.
Pity you cannot DM me over here so we can take this conversation elsewhere.
@Bleacdemon IL ask a mate of mine when I see him and see if he knows I haven't a clue tbh🤣 but thanks for the offer pal let you know if he does if not thanks for letting me know sites etc and that🙂
@Decimateh You’re welcome!
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