Monthly Archives: February 2010 »

Report from Street Fighter IV tournament @ Arcade UFO

HeavyElectricity February 27, 2010 2

At Arcade Heroes, we often say that there’s nothing like standing with another player and competing side by side, and arcade gaming is still the best way to do this. Technology has brought us

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Ground Kontrol announces the 2nd annual Pinbrawl Tournament

Shaggy February 27, 2010 0

Last year an arcade in Portland known as Ground Kontrol hosted a large pinball tournament called Pinbrawl and by all accounts, it was a big success. So with one successful tournament of this caliber

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Titan 4 Games licenses Silhouette for their first gesture-based coin-op game

Shaggy February 27, 2010 3

Via Remember Titan 4 Games? If not, I don’t blame you – we first reported that they were working on gesture-based (think Project Natal) coin-op games last October but since then we have heard

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SNK Opens a virtual NEOGEO museum

Shaggy February 27, 2010 0

Via If you were ever curious as to how the NeoGeo MVS ans AES hardware came to be and what impact they had on the video game industry, then SNK Playmore has a new

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Viral marketing for TRON Legacy continues to give some love to arcades

Shaggy February 26, 2010 3

I’ve always been a big fan of Tron so when it comes to developments of what is going on with the new TRON Legacy movie that comes out in December, I’m intently keeping tabs

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Pac-Man returns to arcades with Pac-Man Battle Royale at Amusement Expo 2010

Shaggy February 25, 2010 14

Ever since Namco first announced Pac-Man CE for Xbox Live Arcade, I thought that the game in particular would be a perfect fit in arcades, which I have mentioned before in posts and to

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SNK Playmore announces King of Fighters XIII along with a preview event date

Shaggy February 25, 2010 0

The King of Fighters series is something that you expect to see a new version of in arcades about every year or so, like Golden Tee. It may not be the most popular fighter

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Dead Storm Pirates gets a trailer

Shaggy February 24, 2010 0

When it came to games at IAAPA, Dead Storm Pirates is one of those games I probably should have spent a little more time playing. Even though the game was essentially a beta it

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New update for Pump In Up, PIU Fiesta

Shaggy February 24, 2010 4

If you are a fan of the Pump It Up series of dancing games then you certainly have something to look forward to. In addition to the release of Pump It Up Pro 2

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"3D Group" ramping up the stereoscopic 3D game scene with a flood of new titles

Shaggy February 23, 2010 0

A few days ago we talked about a new arcade title out of China that Disney was involved with called Disney 3D Ping Pong.  Since then we have heard of other games in Asia

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More Metal Gear Arcade action

Shaggy February 23, 2010 0

Via Here’s another in-depth video of how Metal Gear Arcade works via Diginfo.tv(perhaps the last one we’ll link to for a while unless something drastic and different comes along). I can see where this

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Thief makes off with 5 million yen at a Japanese arcade

Shaggy February 23, 2010 0

It’s a slow news day – I’ve been scouring the net for a little while now and couldn’t find anything else. It fits into the story we had about a week ago where an

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