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EightyTwo Opening Soon In Downtown LA
On the heels of sad news of a location fully closing their doors in London, UK, on the other side of the world a new venue is prepping to open their doors. Called EightyTwo
Read More »Taking a Look At the Trocadero in London, UK Before The End
Newsfeed 1348 via It’s been a pretty slow news week, which I will chalk up to post trade show doldrums. In case anyone is interested, I just posted a new montage video of arcade
Read More »UK Location News: Trocadero Finalizes Arcade Closures; Some Games Headed To Las Vegas Soho
Back in 2011 the sad news came about that a famous arcade location in central London were closing their doors. But that wasn’t the end of the story, some of the games continued in
Read More »Logan Hardware Opening Up Arcade Expansion On Feb. 14th In Chicago, IL
When it comes to arcade location news, the Chicago area gets a lot of love. Of course Illinois is the center of arcade developments in North America; that used to be California but these
Read More »Liberty Games Develops Tech To Enable Bitcoin-Payment For Arcades
Depending upon which circles in the coin-op industry you find yourself in, there has been a discussion in recent years over that term, coin-op and whether it should still apply thanks to digital payments
Read More »Pop Bumpers Pinball To Open In Weymouth, MA In February
More news on the pinball front, this time about a location. We have covered pinball-centric location openings before and while we don’t hear about those as often as an FEC or video arcade opening
Read More »Newsbag: Konami Shows DDR Classroom Edition; Ultra Street Fighter IV Arcade Beta Test; CAVE ; Unboxing A Beatmania Cabinet
Newsfeeds 1344-47 via We’ve had a lot of news about pinball recently, now for a little arcade news of bytes that may not have completely warranted a standalone post for themselves. First off, we
Read More »Ultracade Counterfeit Case Comes To A Close With A Prison Sentence
It’s been quite a while since this story originally broke – back in 2009 an indictment came down that David R Foley and another person had conspired to sell counterfeit game packs for the
Read More »Chuck E Cheeses Agrees To a $950 Million Buyout Deal
(Above: Chuck in happier times) Interesting news among locations lately – while chains like Dave & Busters and Round 1 USA expand, a more famous arcade chain looks to be in some trouble. Chuck
Read More »Dave & Busters Aiming To Open 7 New Stores in 2014
(Image from a D&B location in the Northwest, USA) There are not many big chains of arcades or FECs in the Western world but there are a few. One of those, Dave & Busters,
Read More »Astro City Brings Retro Arcade Goodness to Southend-On-Sea, UK
(Thanks to Barrie for the tip!) The year is coming to a close and just in before the end, a link was sent to my inbox about a new retro arcade that opened its
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