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AVATAR Pinball machine coming to arcades and game rooms this fall UPDATED

Shaggy July 19, 2010 4

Stern Pinball revealed their next pinball game for this fall this morning and once again it is based upon a movie license. This time however, Stern got on board with the highest grossing film

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CAVE tests new shmup "Red Sword" in Japan

Shaggy July 17, 2010 2

CAVE has a new shmup they are testing in Japan, called Red Sword (or Red Katana if you want to make it sound cool).  It’s not surprising news that Cave has a new shooter

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Sega's Giant Tetris gets a new, slightly-less-giant cabinet; HUMMER MDX released

Shaggy July 13, 2010 5

One of the nicer game surprises in recent memory was Sega’s release of Giant Tetris(or Tetris Giant – it can go either way) – Tetris with huge joysticks and giant blocks. The game could

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Konami releases Dance Dance Revolution X2 in Japan; begins testing new Pop N' Music Tune Street tomorrow

Shaggy July 7, 2010 0

It’s another great day for Bemani fans as Konami Japan keeps rolling out new games. First the latest DDR title, DDRX2 was released in Japan today. In addition to new modes of play, new

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SSFIV news for the day

Shaggy July 5, 2010 0

Newsfeed 857 via In case anyone was wondering how Super Street Fighter IV came to be considered for an arcade release, Kotaku has a few minor details on that. It’s nothing mind blowing so

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Metal Gear Arcade location testing in Japan next week

Shaggy July 4, 2010 0

Newsfeed 856 via We haven’t heard much about Konami’s Metal Gear Arcade since AOU2010 but next week players in Tokyo, Japan will have a chance to play the game as it’s on location test.

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A longer look at Blue Works' FORCE

Shaggy July 2, 2010 0

A short while back we covered a student project in Taiwan that set out to recreate an experience similar to Atari’s Warlords, but with modern graphics and a few changes to the formula. At

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Hopping Road Kids gets a release in Japan

Shaggy July 1, 2010 2

Newsfeed 851 via At AOU 2010 in February, Taito revealed a 4-player light-gun shooter and a new version of their game Hopping Road called Hopping Road Kids. Hopping Road itself is an original arcade

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New games from the Sega Private Show 2010 in Japan

Shaggy June 27, 2010 8

Newsfeed 848 via Every year Sega Japan holds a “private” summer show where they give select persons a view of some of the new content that they are bringing to arcades later that year.

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Konami's new bemani game: Reflec Beat

Shaggy June 26, 2010 2

We first heard about Konami’s latest addition to their line-up of bemani games some time ago but despite a number of location tests in Japan, they did a pretty good job of preventing any

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Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown adding Twitter support

Shaggy June 25, 2010 0

I saw this on a few sites this morning and there is just a tiny correction that needs to be made to what is being said. First off, Sega is getting into the social

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KOFXIII gets a release date

Shaggy June 23, 2010 1

Newsfeed 841 via King of Fighters fans mark your calendars. It has been announced that the latest installment of the game will be released on July 14, 2010. They are already scheduling tournaments in

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