It’s funny how some memories stick, isn’t it? I had only been to the ExCel Centre in London once before dropping in at the EAG show on Wednesday, for the consumer gaming event GameStars Live in 2004. Somehow though, five and a half years from that event, I was able to perfectly remember the layout [...]
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EAG 2010: Show report
Saturday, January 30th, 2010First pics from the big arcade show in London called EAG 2010 by Kevin Williams UPDATED
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, we have a first look at the European Amusement and Gaming Expo 2010. To give you an idea of some of the games you’ll see by clicking below, here’s a brief list of what’s new: Let’s Go Island (Sega); Bejeweled (?); Vulcan M (Rassen); Big Buck Hunter [...]
Terminator Salvation Arcade now testing in Japan UPDATE: UK too
Saturday, January 9th, 2010It looks like Raw Thrills/Betson is really beginning to make a push into the Japanese arcade market. First we heard of them testing H2Overdrive in the region, then Chicago Coin/Betson’s PUTT: Champion Golf was seen over there and now we have news of Terminator Salvation currently being tested at the “Shop Yokohama Nishiguchi Raundowan”. What [...]
PMT Sales now running big tournaments for Textminator across the UK
Friday, January 8th, 2010If you live in the UK and you are good at texting, then this is for you. UK distributor PMT Sales has let us know about some big competitions they are currently running on 100 Textminator arcade machines that are placed in various locations throughout the country. What they are offering is nothing to sneeze [...]
And the winners are…
Friday, January 1st, 2010While it is not quite 2010 yet where I am right at the moment, for the website the timer has passed onto the new year and so our Game of the Year/Decade polls are now closed. So what were your choices?
Game of the Decade – H2Overdrive – Raw Thrills’/Specular Interactive’s follow-up to Hydro Thunder took [...]
H2Overdrive Motion version now testing at a Gameworks in Illinois
Thursday, December 31st, 2009(Thanks for the tip Sam!)
Amongst the surprises at IAAPA this year was the revelation that Namco was teaming up with Tsunami and Universal Space to produce a motion based version of Specular Interactive’s H2Overdrive. I did capture the game on video but in hindsight I probably should have spent a little more time focusing on [...]
Remember the polls! 1 week left to vote!
Thursday, December 24th, 2009This is just a friendly reminder to vote in our Game of the Year and Decade polls for your pick of the arcade titles that left the best impression upon you. The polls this year have been more popular than in previous years, my thanks to everyone who has participated. Whichever games have the most [...]
Eugene Jarvis named the NY-AMOA Man of the Year 2009
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009While not many awards are handed out to the arcade industry these days (for example, H2Overdrive was at the SpikeTV Video Game Awards on Saturday but wasn’t considered for any awards as they lack an arcade category or can’t include arcade titles in their categories for some reason), there are certain ways that people inside [...]
H2Overdrive headed to SpikeTV’s Video Game Awards; Specular website update + more
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Raw Thrills’/Specular Interactive’s H2Overdrive is making headlines again, first with news that Universal Space (UNIS) will be exclusively carrying the game in China. I know that the game has been seen in Japan already but I do not know how it has been received over there but either way the Chinese market is a big [...]
The Arcade Heroes “Arcade Game of the Year 2009″ poll
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009It’s that wonderful time of year again where we see what you the readers consider to be the Arcade Game of the Year in 2009. We have had some excellent games come to arcades throughout 2009 and I am excited to see everything we’ll get to play in 2010. I tried to get everything in [...]
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