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Scale-1 Portal Launches Immersive Coach Exer-Game Content
Variations on out-of-home VR style technology are growing in number out there although not everyone is a newcomer to the scene. Such is the case with French based company Scale-1 Portal, who has been
Read More »VR Arcade News: Sega Joypolis To Test PlayStation VR; VRCade Joins With Smartlaunch
While I was going to combine this news with the weekend newsbytes, it turned out that there was enough on this segment that we could a separate post. Sega To Showcase PlayStation VR At
Read More »The Unreleased Arcade Concepts Of Amazement Machines
Prototype and unreleased concepts have always been fascinating to me, particular in the video game arena. There are a plethora of reasons as to why a product might not ever make it out of
Read More »IAAPA 2015: MotoGP, Mario & Sonic Olympics Arcade; World’s Largest Pac-Man; Galaga Assault
With the IAAPA 2015 trade show in full swing this week, we’ve got plenty of news to chew over that will probably last us for the next few weeks. As always, I work on
Read More »Bandai Namco Unveils Real Drive At The Tokyo Motor Show
Happy Back To the Future Day – a day where we look at the present with more nostalgia for the 80s, when the ambition was more ‘a spaceship in every home’ than ‘a computer
Read More »New “World’s Largest” Arcade Cabinet Plus Some History On Big Arcades
(Thanks to Michael Louie for the tip) Way back in 2007, G4TV created what was then called “The World’s Largest Arcade Machine”. Now with the upcoming release of the 2016 Guinness Book of World
Read More »Sega Launches Transformers Human Alliance Special At the Tokyo Joypolis
Through Sega’s history, they have launched a variety of games as Medium scale attractions – not necessarily something that would fill up a huge space in an amusement park like a ride but not
Read More »Enjoy 30 Minutes of AOU/AM Show Footage from 1991 & ’92
These days we all expect to see footage of arcade games from trade shows or venues since cameras are found everywhere. But that wasn’t the case from the earlier days of arcade gaming when
Read More »IAAPA 2014 Videos: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Battle Pod, Showdown, Armed Resistance, Redline Rampage
The blog itself has been quiet for the past few days although I have been very busy working on videos that I took from IAAPA 2014 (on top of having to work, raise kids,
Read More »First Screenshots From Project HADES, A 4D Game by Simuline and Specular Interactive
Last week we broke a story on a new interactive motion theater that was being prepped for an appearance at the IAAPA 2014 trade show. The hardware was called Valkyrie by Simuline and the
Read More »Simulator Previews: Cruden’s Powerboat 5CTR & Yotto’s ExoSkelet
IAAPA 2014 is always a big time for professional simulators to make an appearance and we have covered venues before that have picked up things like them which is why they are included in
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