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New experiment: The Arcade Heroes Week-in-Review 'podcast'

Shaggy June 14, 2009 9

OK, so I have decided to try ‘podcasting’ – of course I don’t know if you can really consider this a podcast, it’s just an MP3 file to download here where you can listen

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Pics from the UK Park Avenue Open Day event

Shaggy June 13, 2009 0

Kevin Williams at the Stiger Report has sent us some pics he took from the UK Park Avenue Open Day distributor event and with it we get to take a look at a couple

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The Metal Gear Arcade announcement video; game will get a worldwide release

Shaggy June 6, 2009 2

In case you missed it, here is the announcement of Metal Gear Arcade at E3. Having seen it now I see that they are planning on a worldwide release with this one with Japan

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More details on Metal Gear Arcade (w/screens)

Shaggy June 4, 2009 2

I guess arcades can get some love at E3, at least where Konami is concerned. Since Hideo Kojima made the announcement during Konami’s E3 presser and already there is a lot of information on

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First image of Metal Gear Solid Arcade

Twisted Supreme June 4, 2009 0

After the news broke in April that there maybe a Metal Gear Solid coming to arcades, we have been waiting eagerly for the next bit of news. Next up, for us to drawl over, is

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Beatmania 17 Sirius to begin testing in Japan tomorrow

Shaggy May 27, 2009 3

[thanks to Aaron Auzins for the tip] Bemani fans have a lot to be happy about these days, with DDRX right around the corner and the news that Konami will being testing the 17th

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New arcade releases this week: Nirin and Dance Dance Revolution X

Shaggy May 21, 2009 2

My local distributor tells me that two new games are now shipping out to various distributors and thus will be showing up at different locations around the country within the next few weeks. First

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Move over Wii Sports – here comes Mocap Sports

Shaggy May 7, 2009 0

While it might  seem that Konami is a little late to the motion controller party, you also might recall that Konami pioneered the motion controller prior to the release of the Nintendo Wii (which has

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Metal Gear Coming to Arcades soon?

Shaggy April 11, 2009 3

[Thanks to Jon Cox for the tip] First Konami gave us Silent Hill: The Arcade and then CastleVania – could Metal Gear be the next in Konami’s line-up of console to arcade releases? It

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Konami already testing a sequel/update to uBeat

Shaggy March 17, 2009 0

One game I had hoped to see at ASI was Konami’s uBeat. There had been a US location test but since then we have heard pretty much nothing about the game here. Sadly, we

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ASI 2009: Some thoughts before the videos

Shaggy March 14, 2009 0

Well I’m back from Vegas and I’m ready to show off videos of what I saw there! The only problem is that so far my internet connection has not been co-operating with me and

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More AOU news: Castlevania Arcade released, Border Break details, new hardware from SIE

Shaggy February 19, 2009 5

There’s more to talk about from AOU 2009 and I find it exciting to see. Konami: Castlevania: The Arcade is now available in Japan. I have checked with Konami to see when we might

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