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Taito begins selling BlazBlue Continuum Shift II globally

Taito begins selling BlazBlue Continuum Shift II globally

arcadehero May 18, 2011 3

Taito just announced a couple of hours ago that they are now selling the AkSys Games BlazBlue Continuum Shift II arcade boards globally. The exact tweet goes as follows: TAITO has begun global sales

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PowerPutt LIVE 2012 coming next Spring

PowerPutt LIVE 2012 coming next Spring

arcadehero May 18, 2011 0

We haven’t had many new game announcements to discuss recently, even though a number of games are in-development as we speak. Most of the time announcements are made a short time before the game

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Classic Game Room tackles classic arcade games

arcadehero May 18, 2011 1

(Thanks to IGO for the tip) The Classic Game Room is a large series of video reviews found on Youtube where these guys review games for any game system they can get their hands-on.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning Open Thread

Welcome to the Monday Morning Open Thread

arcadehero May 16, 2011 5

We haven’t really done an ‘Open Thread’ before, where you talk about pretty much anything in the comments (still prefer arcade/pinball discussion) but today I feel like starting one, along with some various pieces

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Knights of Valour 3 in action @ GTI Asia Taipei ’11

Knights of Valour 3 in action @ GTI Asia Taipei ’11

arcadehero May 14, 2011 0

Just a short time ago we found out about IGS’s new 2D beat ’em up, Knights of Valour 3. IGS published a teaser site for the game and left it at that. Fortunately, a

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Checking out Terminator Salvation’s new “Expert Mode”

Checking out Terminator Salvation’s new “Expert Mode”

arcadehero May 13, 2011 5

One aspect of modern gaming that we have all become used to is the game update. We have come to expect them  these days as issues are discovered in games and improvements are made,

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Chuck E. Cheese’s being sued for use of redemption games

Chuck E. Cheese’s being sued for use of redemption games

arcadehero May 13, 2011 7

A San Diego real estate agent has decided that because she feels that the redemption games her kids played at a local Chuck E. Cheese (after several visits to the location mind you) didn’t

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Digital Out-Of-Home Interactive Entertainment Conference coming to London, July 14th

Digital Out-Of-Home Interactive Entertainment Conference coming to London, July 14th

arcadehero May 13, 2011 2

A new conference that focuses on digital out-of-home entertainment (a fancier way of saying what we do in the amusement industry) is coming to London this July, where trade experts and professionals will gather

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Pinball news: Teaser videos for TRON Pinball; Wizard of Oz witch toy + more

arcadehero May 11, 2011 1

Let’s kill a few birds with one stone here by combining a few bits of recent pinball news into one post. First, the one I’m a little surprised by – Stern hasn’t released anything

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Taito introduces Kickthrough Racers

Taito introduces Kickthrough Racers

arcadehero May 11, 2011 1

Taito appeared to have some decent success on their unusual Hopping Road arcade game, a title where you raced along on pogo sticks and now they are taking the concept to the next level

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A closer look at Tecway’s Dino Survivor

A closer look at Tecway’s Dino Survivor

arcadehero May 11, 2011 0

We’ve heard about Dino Survivor before, a mounted light-gun dinosaur shooting by Taiwanese company Tecway Development Co.. But until now, we hadn’t seen the game in action. Tecway sent along the video below and

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Looking at Chinatown Fair’s last night in operation

arcadehero May 10, 2011 3

(Thanks for the tip Foxx!) We all heard about the closure of Chinatown Fair, a popular arcade in NYC earlier this year. It came at about the same time as the closure of Arcade

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