Monthly Archives: August 2008 »
Taito not happy about the use of Space Invaders at the Leipzig show, considering legal action
If you follow the consumer game media at all then you probably have heard of the Leipzig Game Show that has been going on in Germany. You also might have heard of the controversial
Read More »What gives with the consumer game media (an open letter)
Again from our friend Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, an open letter discussing the issue of the not-so-glowing coverage of the arcade industry in conventional game media: Why dose the consumer game media
Read More »Post-Edinburgh Interactive Festival Report
Previously we have discussed the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and how our friend Kevin Williams was going to present a seminar about the amusement industry to that show and now we have the details. He
Read More »System16 gets an update
A few years ago, before Arcade Heroes was around I got most of new game news from a great site called system16. Chances are, you are familiar with it too as it was an
Read More »Need For Speed Carbon going dedicated
Not too long ago, GlobalVr released a new drift racing arcade game called Need for Speed Carbon, which is based upon the console game of the same name. It was first sold only as
Read More »More about BlazBlue (US release date & price)
I had a a really good conversation with Harry at Arcsys yesterday in regards to BlazBlue and I figured that it would be worthwhile to pass some information along to you. They really are
Read More »Toolbar for Tee Time
I used to play a lot of Golden Tee a while back, but these days there aren’t that many about in my local pubs. Shame really, because Golden Tee is becoming more and more
Read More »15 Most valuable arcade games
Over at Rotheblog they have put together a list of the 15 most valuable games in existence, the most expensive one being Williams Blaster Cockpit cabinet weighing in at $12,000! Williams games feature heavy
Read More »Street Fighter 4 Location Tracker
It’s not so easy for those of us outside of Japan to play Street Fighter 4, what with there not being that many of them about. But to make life easy for us EventHubs.com has
Read More »Crazy Climber coming to Wii
Last year the somewhat well-known arcade classic Crazy Climber updated for the modern world and it was released in arcades in Japan. It didn’t receive any glowing reviews but that doesn’t stop them from
Read More »ArcadeOtaku, a place to discuss Japanese arcade gaming and a Japanese arcade game blog
I know that a few of you are familiar with the arcade gaming forum known as Killercabs and as such you might also be familiar with the fact that it has been done for
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