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Reminder: Amusement Expo this week, here's a preview

Shaggy March 9, 2010 0

This is just a quick reminder that the new combo show of the AMOA/AAMA, better known as the Amusement Expo takes place this week, with the convention beginning on  Wednesday and ending on Friday.

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Pentavision teasing DJ Max Technika 2

Shaggy March 6, 2010 1

via Pentavision is teasing their follow-up to their popular arcade music title DJ Max Technika with a new teaser site. The site doesn’t reveal anything about the game other than some colorful logos and

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Peter Hirschberg's Luna City Arcade up for sale

Shaggy March 6, 2010 0

There are a lot of cool home arcades out there but few have attracted as much attention as Peter Hirschberg’s Luna City Arcade. He has built-up one of the finest collection of vector titles

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Sega shows off the new Rambo cabinet

Shaggy March 6, 2010 5

As I mentioned yesterday, the upcoming Amusement Expo is certainly turning out to be the place where light-gun game fans have a lot to look forward to as nearly every company which produces coin-op

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Article: How video arcades are adapting to modern times

Shaggy March 6, 2010 0

For some years now, one argument has dominated the existence of coin-op arcade games in asking whether they are relevant in today’s world. Some sources say no; that arcades are dead and so unless

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International Video Game Hall of Fame and Museum announced in Ottumwa, IA; Walter Day announces retirement

Shaggy March 6, 2010 0

Via If you are into competitive gaming then you have likely heard about Twin Galaxies, an organization that deals with officially recording high scores or substantial achievements in video games across the spectrum. Led

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Space Invaders might get a movie too

Shaggy March 4, 2010 0

A short time ago we heard that Atari was looking at bringing some of it’s classics to the silver screen and now word has it that Warner Bros. is looking to bring a big

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Disney to build a Flynn's Arcade at Tomorrow Land; new pics of Flynn's Arcade in TRON Legacy

Shaggy March 4, 2010 0

It seems that news on the new Tron: Legacy movie is rolling out every day this week as part of a build-up to the official trailer release tomorrow and while we are not a

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More Sega news: in-depth look at Club Sega; new Shining Force Cross version; more Let's Go Island

Shaggy March 4, 2010 0

Via As a sort of follow-up to the news from Sega about their line-up at the Amusement Expo next week, we have several pieces of news about the company that we’ll just going to

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GlobalVR teams up with Sprint to offer custom NASCAR arcades for NASCAR events

Shaggy March 3, 2010 0

Via When I first played GlobalVR’s NASCAR a few years ago, I figured that it would only be a matter of time before the cabinets would somehow find their way into NASCAR venues and

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Sega announces Amusement Expo line-up: Let's Go Island cabinet, new Hummer and Rambo cabinets

Shaggy March 3, 2010 0

As we soon approach the Amusement Expo next week in Vegas, we are starting to hear about the games we will be seeing there and today Sega unveiled the games that they will feature

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Kevin Williams visits the Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx arcade art gallery

Shaggy March 2, 2010 4

We recently reported about a new art gallery that opened up in London that used arcade machines as part of the art and now Kevin Williams, editor of The Stinger Report has checkedit out

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