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AOU 2011 Day 1
Here’s a new batch of images to come out of AOU 2011 that is now taking place in Japan. We’re not able to be there personally but there is quite a bit of coverage
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Billy Mitchell opens the King of Kong Arcade
The quest for the high score to the Donkey Kong arcade machine was made famous by the documentary, The King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters. Thanks to that film, the rivalry between Billy
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The 2011 Reflec Beat Taiwan Grand Prix taking place Feb. 12th
(Thanks for the info Rico) Konami’s latest concept in rhythm gaming, Reflec Beat, has landed in Taiwan and Konami Asia along with the Saint-Fun Corporation are already preparing to hold a tournament for the
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Adrenaline Amusement’s TouchFX now available
One of the nice surprises about IAAPA this past November was the appearance of a new product by Adrenaline Amusements, a company based out of Toronto, Canada. It was called TouchFX and it offered
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Taito’s Elevator Action Death Parade now available in the UK and US
(Stock photo of the game at the Trocadero) When the Trocadero in London got their hands on Taito’s light-gun based sequel to their Elevator Action series, Elevator Action: Death Parade, it appeared that the
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KOF remakes for ’98 and 2002 coming Jan. 24th to NESiCA
Of all the fighting game series to grace the arcade, none has been as consistent in releasing a yearly update in some form than The King of Fighters by SNK Playmore. Out of the
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The return of VR?
Newsfeed 990 via Technology has a funny way of working at times. Occasionally, ideas were too far ahead of their time or the technology didn’t live up to the ambition of the idea behind
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Taito’s NESiCAxLive now available in Japan w/ Blazblue CS2
Since I first heard about Taito’s new arcade-based download service NESiCAxLive back in September, I’ve been eager to see the time when it would be in operation and how it would all work out.
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IAAPA 2010: Microsoft Kinect integrated into legal arcade cabinet by Quasimoto Interactive
I have been able to upload my first video taken from IAAPA 2010 and the first thing I’ll share that was a big surprise at the show is Quasimoto Interactive’s Let’s Kinect coin-op cabinet.
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PGM2 hardware gets some attention starting in December
Back in early 2008, Taiwan-based IGS released a new hardware platform called the PGM2. It was a JAMMA machine with excellent 2D capabilities, 4-player support and it accepted cartridges. They released one game with
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Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality
The Am-Net Blog has pictures of the marketing materials for a new Konami light-gun game testing in Japan called Space Agent. The only info we have about it comes from the posted media, which
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Exclusive: The last coin-op project at Midway Chicago, RIP SQUAD: Raids Against the Reich
Back in 2001, Midway made a decision to dump their long standing coin-op division in favor of focusing developments on console gaming. When that decision came down, there were still some arcade games floating
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