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Timezone Eyes Further Expansion in 2012 After A Great 2011

Timezone Eyes Further Expansion in 2012 After A Great 2011

arcadehero February 10, 2012 0

(Thanks to Kieran for the tip!) We’ve had a slew of reports of small arcades opening their doors in the US recently but what about news from some larger arcade chains? One chain of

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Namco’s AOU Line-Up Unveiled

Namco’s AOU Line-Up Unveiled

arcadehero February 8, 2012 0

Next week is the AOU show and now it’s Namco’s turn to draw attention to some of the products they will have there. There are a couple of games which are no-brainers – Tekken

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Tiny News Bundle Of the Day: Loctest video of new Dodonpachi, yet another toddler in a crane

arcadehero February 7, 2012 2

Combining two short stories into one, first, let’s start off with Dodonpachi Saidaioujou location test footage. Multiple videos are on this thread at Arcade Otaku but this one isn’t sideways. The game looks pretty

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King of fighters XIII Climax testing in Japan this Sat/Sun

King of fighters XIII Climax testing in Japan this Sat/Sun

arcadehero February 6, 2012 3

Much like Golden Tee, every year you can expect to see some sort of new King Of Fighters game for arcades and while they aren’t coming out with KOF14 quite yet, a new update

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Coin-op alumni brought together to make new iPad games

Coin-op alumni brought together to make new iPad games

arcadehero February 3, 2012 4

Newsfeed 1165 via I can’t say I particularly care for this trend of news that deals with more with mobile devices lately than actual arcades, but the kind of news that we generally focus

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Triangle Services/ Sega bringing Love Arcade to AOU2012 + Flying Robots

Triangle Services/ Sega bringing Love Arcade to AOU2012 + Flying Robots

arcadehero February 2, 2012 2

As mentioned yesterday, news will be trickling out about the upcoming AOU 2012 event in Japan that takes place in about two weeks and today Sega opened up some of their plans as to

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What’s coming to AOU2012 (Part 1)

What’s coming to AOU2012 (Part 1)

arcadehero February 1, 2012 3

Newsfeed 1162 & 1163 via If you didn’t get a fill from the EAG show last week then never fear, another arcade trade show is just around the corner, this time in Japan. The

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Namco’s Virtual Arcade App for iOS

Namco’s Virtual Arcade App for iOS

arcadehero February 1, 2012 0

Newsfeed 1161 via  News in the real coin-op space has been a bit slow for the past week so this leads us into the territory of something related to the business. Namco has not

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Cave unveils Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for Arcades

Cave unveils Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for Arcades

arcadehero January 30, 2012 6

The Dodonpachi series has created a strong following in circles of shmup players and while it had seemed for a time that Cave might give up on arcades in favor of developments elsewhere, that

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The Arcade Games of EAG Part 2

The Arcade Games of EAG Part 2

arcadehero January 30, 2012 5

Following up to part 1, here are more photos from last weeks EAG event in London, UK taken by Kevin Williams of the Stinger Report. Also if you haven’t already, check out video coverage

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The Appeal of Pinball (and other musings)

The Appeal of Pinball (and other musings)

arcadehero January 27, 2012 0

Newsfeed 1160 via The Stinger Report We often mention pinball when there is something new in the area but when it comes to more mainstream gaming sites, they don’t really pay much attention to

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The Arcade Games of EAG 2012 Part 1

The Arcade Games of EAG 2012 Part 1

arcadehero January 25, 2012 5

With January upon us, comes another arcade event where new products are shown off in London, UK. This is the first look as provided to us by The Stinger Report – more pictures and

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