Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)
While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean that nothing »
Sega Amusements & 501 Entertainment Bring Interactive Mini Golf To Market
A few years ago, Sega Amusements broadened their horizons into social entertainment by partnering with »
July Trade Shows: Bowl Expo & IAAPA Expo Asia 2025
With July fully underway, it’s time to take a look at a couple more trade »
Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates Disembarks Into Western Shores
After its initial release in Japan and overseas launch at IAAPA 2024 late last year, »
Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More
Welcome once again to Newsbytes, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that goes over »
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Gran Turismo 5: The Simulator
Newsfeed 971 via Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report sent us along this photo of one of the new Gran Turismo 5 making it’s out-of-home debut as a simulator. Unfortunately we didn’t get information
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Metal Gear Arcade, Penguins and Pizza, all in one post
As I need to catch up a little on updating the website here(updates might still be a little spotty over the next few days), I am going to combine a couple of Stinger Report
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The story behind a unique arcade game about Waffles
The holiday season is always good for a heart warming story and Kotaku has one they published today that involves a waffle restaurant in Eugene, Ore., a unique arcade game made as a gift
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Astro Ranger combines music and fighter worlds into one game
Newsfeed 968 via Back in September of this year the Tokyo Game Show held a little surprise for arcade fans in the form of something called Astro Ranger. Developed by a South Korean company,
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Konami’s DDR X2 shipping in the US this next week
We have known that the latest installment of Konami’s DDR series, X2, would be getting a December release in the US and that time has finally arrived. The software has reportedly been tweaked to
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Konami’s Metal Gear Arcade coming next week
It’s been quite a while since we first heard about Konami’s Metal Gear Arcade (April 2009 is when the rumors began flying) and finally Konami will be bringing the game to arcades this next
Read More »Daft Punk’s Derezzed music video goes to Flynn’s
This official Daft Punk music video is full of vector arcade and TRON goodness with a little twist in the light-cycle arena as the two combatants joust. Now for someone to build a ‘homebrew’
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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.
Read More »Fast and Furious Super Cars by Raw Thrills shipping this week
The latest edition of Raw Thrills’ popular Fast And Furious racing series begins shipping this week and that means soon you might find it at a venue near you. I got some hands-on time
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More details on Namco’s Maximum Heat
Newsfeed 967 via We’ve already had some hands-on time with Namco’s latest racer, Dead Heat (see IAAPA coverage or search for Dead Heat here in case you missed it) but we haven’t seen much
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Capcom producing New Super Mario Bros. Wii medal game
Nintendo used to have a strong presence in arcades and even though it has waned considerably in recent years, occasionally we get some sort of Nintendo related product coming along in the coin-op sector.
Read More »Konami fixes DDRX2 timing issues before US release
(Thanks to Phil for the tip!) When we recently saw the brand new Dance Dance revolution X2 machine at Betson’s IAAPA booth in Orlando, I caught a problem with the game on camera where
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