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Death of the arcade being greatly exaggerated by mainstream game journalists
[Via Gametrailers via Arcade Renaissance] I caught this at Arcade Renaissance and I’m glad I did. Anytime we can debunk falsehoods that come from the mainstream gaming journalism world I’m happy to line up.
Read More »Initial D4 Websites
While checking up on the Sega Amusements (US) website I noticed a banner for their new racer Initial D4 that states “Click here to see what all of the HYPE is about!”. I
Read More »Pics from this years California Extreme event!
(Photos Courtesy of Ataricade (www.ataricade.com)) The California Extreme(CAX) event has come and gone but with it are a ton of pics! Here we are reposting many pictures taken by user Ataricade (who runs an
Read More »AAMA Gala Picture Gallery
While the public didn’t hear much news or fanfare about the AAMA Gala that was held last week, there was news to be made from the event. First our close associates The Stinger Report(Aug
Read More »DDR Supernova 2 Website open
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Konami is gearing up for the next (10th) installment of DDR in both Japan and overseas and to prove it, the official website is now open. At the moment there
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – The Crystal of Kings
I almost didn’t get around to writing this as I had a little health trouble this week and ended up in the hospital for part of a night. It wasn’t anything terribly serious but
Read More »Cardboard MiniArcades for your PSP
[Thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report] If you own a PSP and have wanted to turn it into an arcade cabinet, then here is your chance, I suppose. “SUCK UK” has
Read More »Big update at Coinopexpress; Basara X, Silent Hill, Otomedius listed
Coinopexpress has updated their “Coming Soon” section with a number of games, a few of which we hope to see outside of Japan. I might have overlooked Guitar Freaks V4 previously but it is
Read More »Maximum Tune 3, Namco Bandai's first global launch
[Thanks to The Stinger Report] In the gaming world it seems that the best launches are always global ones. Game consoles are starting to perfect the art now and arcade manufacturers seem to be
Read More »5th Arcadia Cup Tournament ends today
[Via Arcade Renaissance] I missed this one last weekend, thanks to The Stinger Report for pointing me to it. The Tougeki Super Battle Opera is opening the festivities for its 5th Arcadia Cup Tournament
Read More »Hacked Initial D4 cards?
[Via The Stinger Report] It never ceases to amaze me the lengths at which some players will go to cheat at games because they aren’t good enough to get anywhere otherwise or they are
Read More »New Crane concept – Robo Crane
[Via Kevin Williams @ The Stinger Report] Toy cranes haven’t changed much over the years but as of late they have been seeing some hard competition from the likes of Stacker titles. In
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