Author: Ethan
Why Netflix’s Cloud Gaming Library Will Differ From Its Mobile Gaming Offerings
Netflix Games has been building out its offerings since late 2021. This has mainly included Netflix buying and building game studios, beta testing cloud video games, and releasing downloadable mobile games. However there are some notable issues Netflix is going to have to face as they move more of their mobile games into the cloud. […]
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Why Antstream Arcade Is Great Value For Retro Gamers
Antstream Arcade is a retro gaming-focused cloud gaming platform. It currently offers 1295 games from many classic game systems. In this editorial, I want to go over why retro gamers should check out Antstream Arcade to scratch their retro games itch. Antstream Arcade Won’t Cost You A Limb There is a saying about some retro […]
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Why Netflix Games Releasing Fewer Games Is A Good Thing
Netflix Games has almost 100 games available to all Netflix subscribers. However, so far in 2024, we’ve only seen six mobile games and one cloud game added to Netflix. That is an average of around two games per month, which is lower than in 2022 and 2023, where most months saw between three and four […]
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Antstream Arcade Adds Six Games To Its Library
Antstream Arcade, the retro gaming cloud gaming service, has needed some good news after a slew of removals. Today, Antstream has added six new games to its catalog. Four of the games added are Amstrad CPC games, but the other games are actually an MS-DOS game and an arcade game. Let’s take a look at […]
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Why Netflix Games Is Less Dependent On Triple A Games
Triple AAA video games make up numerous of the video games that get published every year. This includes the likes of EA, Xbox Game Studios, PlayStation Studios, Ubisoft, and Take-Two Interactive to name a few. Cloud Gaming platforms have traditionally struggled to get support from these publishers. However, I want to talk about why Netflix […]
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Why Amazon Luna’s Strategy Shift Makes Sense
Amazon Luna first launched in the US in December 2020 (in “beta”). It left “beta” in 2022, followed by launches in the UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France over the course of 2023. Amazon Luna’s original business model focused on “channels” similar to Amazon Prime Video, where you could subscribe to select channels to […]
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The Big Question Around Amazon Luna’s GOG Partnership
Recently, at the time of writing this article, the news is still quite fresh as Amazon Luna looks to pivot away from its original “channels” method to a model more akin to Nvidia GeForce Now where Amazon Luna subscribers can play the games they own on either Ubisoft Connect or, sometime this year, GOG.com. The […]
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Hades Crawls On To Netflix Games (iOS Only)
The indie video game hit Hades has finally hacked, slashed, and dungeon-crawled its way onto Netflix Games, so let’s discuss. So What Is Hades About? The official iOS description for Hades reads: Slash your way through an ever-changing Underworld to ditch the afterlife in this dungeon crawler, with the Greek gods rooting you on, And […]
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Antstream Arcade Adds A Cancelled Version Of A Beloved Game
Antstream Arcade, the retro gaming cloud gaming service, has added a brand new version of the beloved Piko Interactive game Jim Power The Lost Dimension, So let’s get into it. So What Is This Game? Jim Power The Lost Dimension is a classic tun and gun 2D platforming game for various systems including the SNES […]
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Why I Am Cautiously Optimistic About The Future Of Antstream Arcade
Antstream Arcade the retro gaming cloud gaming service has added a mixed bag of news over the last few months with new games being added, old games being removed and a March Connect which gave us some news on future plans, so let’s go over why I am cautiously optimistic about the future of Antstream […]
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