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Guest Post: “The Death Of Melbourne’s Arcade Industry”
I received an article from Anthony Cocking, former employee of the Galactic Circus in Melbourne, Australia. Recently, the “largest indoor interactive theme park” in Australia that has been open since 1999. They were recently
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New Games Spotted At The IAAPA Asian Attractions Expo
Recently the IAAPA organization held the Asian Attractions Expo 2016 event in Shanghai, China and we’ve received a little bit of info about some new arcade content shown there. The event saw record breaking
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Vidcast: Interview with Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report & DNA Association
Long time readers of the site are familiar with The Stinger Report, a long-running amusement/out-of-home entertainment industry newsletter and the earliest of outside contributors to Arcade Heroes. That newsletter was founded in 1994 by
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1st Annual Arcade Video & Game Room Expo 2016 Coming This August
Brought to you by We haven’t used that logo in a while, thanks to the Stinger Report for the tip! Details on the Arcade Video & Game Room Expo If you plan on being
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New Arcades: 8bits+Bytes; Barcade New Haven; Fire Betty’s Arcade Bar; Silverball Museum; Level One Bar+Arcade; FTW Denver; VUK
My newsfeeds were a little full of new location news this morning (in part as I didn’t check it for a few days 😛 ) so let’s try and sort it out in one
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Arcade review and history: Skyquest Arcade at the Basement of the Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
I will start off by saying that at the basement of an international landmark sits an arcade, an arcade that contains things that one does not simply see in today’s modern day arcades. The
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New Arcades: Dave & Busters (NY & TX); Great Escape Social Eats & Crafts (IA); Coin-Op Game Room 3 (CA); HubZero (Dubai)
Any day is a good day for new venue news. Here are the new places to look at: Two Grand Openings For Dave & Busters Locations (NY & TX): I thought that we had
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New Games At MGC 2016: Raider’s Run, Spectre Files Deathstalker, Skycurser and More
The Midwest Gaming Classic 2016 event (MGC 2016) is well under way in Wisconsin today and with that, some news on new arcade titles that smaller developers are showing off. Game Refuge and Galloping
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Arcade MTL Opens In Montreal, Canada
(Thanks to Michel Descoteaux for the tip) Back in January while reporting on a number of new locations, it was mentioned that a new bar/arcade concept was working on overcoming some hurdles to open up
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Games Turning 40,20, 30 and 10 in 2016
With each year that passes, we take a look at games celebrating a certain anniversary via a post. This year however, I decided to go the video route and make these long videos covering
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3 New Arcade Titles To Be Unveiled At Midwest Gaming Classic This Weekend
UPDATE: The games have been shown off, check them out! The Midwest Gaming Classic event is approaching this weekend and while the name implies that it’s all about older/retro/classic games, that is not always
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First Ever VR Arcade Conference To Be Held In California This May
Video game news has been buzzing with VR developments for a while now and in the arcade business we’ve had no exception to seeing the technology make an attempt to re-enter the business over
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