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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Sega posts improved profit projections
Sega Sammy Holdings yesterday revised its half and full year financial forecasts, and the good news for the company is that it has increased its projected profits. The full year figure is projected to
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A politician who likes video games, including arcades
We don’t dive into politics very often – only when necessary with stories that are generally on the negative side as some city/state/country goes off on a crusade to ban coin-op games for some
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Taito’s Gaia Attack 4 testing in the UK
Newsfeed 938 via When Taito demonstrated a new four-player light-gun shooter title at AOU this past February called Gaia Attack 4, there was no indication that it would get an international release, although we
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IGS introduces Speed Driver 3: Crash Hour
Taiwanese company IGS my not be well-known for their racers but they are working hard at changing that with their Speed Driver series. The game is geared more towards the China/Taiwan market, although it
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Sega Card Gen MLB finally getting a release in October – only in Japan
When Sega first took the veil off of their unique card-based arcade title Sega Card Gen MLB, it was shown in the US at AMOA09, with a tentative release date for Spring 2010. It
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DeadStorm Pirates 3D as seen at JAMMA
Newsfeed 935 via We have already mentioned how Namco’s latest light-gun shooter will be getting an update in 3D this next spring and for those fortunate enough to make it to JAMMA a couple
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More indie games being promoted with arcade cabinets
It seems that the idea of promoting your indie-produced game title (which is generally intended for a PC/XBLA/PSN/WiiWare release) inside of an arcade cabinet is starting to catch steam up to the point of
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Golden Tee Live 2011 now available
It’s the end of September and that means that Incredible Technologies’ Golden Tee LIVE 2011 beings shipping today. The latest installment adds five new courses onto the many already included from previous GT games,
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Report: Namco/Brent open day 2010
Tuesday was quite a busy day, to say the least. While I knew that I’d be visiting Sega for a product launch, I was unaware that Namco was also running an open day. Many
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Pac-Man, Milk and You
Newsfeed 931 via While Namco has been going all out in promoting Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary, most notably with the two arcade titles Pac-Man Battle Royale and Pac-Man’s Arcade Party, it looks like the merchandising
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A coffee table for pinball fans
Newsfeed 930 via If you have a non-working pinball playfield laying around there are a couple of things you could do with it – salvage it for parts on another pin, sell it to
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Arcade Legends 3 coming in October
As interest in classic gaming continues to go on strong, that means that there will be a place for multi-game cabinets using licensed software. In the recent past that void has been filled mostly
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