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SSFIV Arcade Edition staying arcade exclusive?
Andriasang has an interesting bit of news today, concerning Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition – apparently Capcom has decided to keep the AE content and balancing in arcades and will not be bringing
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A fundraiser to help the American Classic Arcade Museum
(Thanks to Jon Lynch for the tip!) We’ve had some unpleasant news about a popular arcade in Southern California closing it’s doors, Arcade Infinity which is closing this week (BTW- They asked me to
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Chinatown Fair Arcade closing Wednesday? + Ground Kontrol goes 3.0 (UPDATE)
(From inside the Chinatown Fair arcade, GameSetWatch) UPDATE: Both Joystiq and Kotaku have ran stories about this and found out that the closure isn’t completely true – there are some issues with the landlord
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Profits up at Sega Sammy and Namco Bandai
Newsfeed 998 via About every quarter we get a look at how some companies who are in the arcade business did financially, particularly those based in Japan. These reports don’t really show us how
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Electric Theater Vintage Arcade coming to Kansas City, MO this year
Another classic arcade is in the works, and this time it will be found in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Too be known as the Electric Theater Vintage Arcade, the operator Mike Freeland is
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The Arcade Street in Paris
Newsfeed 986 via If you’re in Paris and you want to enjoy playing some arcades from Japan, then you’ll want to find your way to Arcade Street. This location is near Nation subway station
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How the year went at my own arcade
As long time readers of this site are aware, I own and operate my own arcade in Utah. I opened up back in June 2008 and it’s been a wild ride but I have
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Taito’s NESiCAxLive now available in Japan w/ Blazblue CS2
Since I first heard about Taito’s new arcade-based download service NESiCAxLive back in September, I’ve been eager to see the time when it would be in operation and how it would all work out.
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Who plays at the arcade in Japan and why? (UPDATED)
(UPDATED: thanks to one of our readers who translated a couple of the charts for us into English, they are posted below). Market data for the amusement industry is sometimes hard to come by,
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Weekend news: RoadFighters Impressions, CEC earnings report, Namco game quiz
To start off our weekend, a few items to “cleanse the palette” with, especially if you are bored to death over the plethora of Microsoft Kinect coverage many game blogs are getting into right
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Sega posts improved profit projections
Sega Sammy Holdings yesterday revised its half and full year financial forecasts, and the good news for the company is that it has increased its projected profits. The full year figure is projected to
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Capcom’s outlook at the arcade market
Newsfeed 925 & 926 via Recently we had a little bit of discussion about Capcom’s attitude towards the arcade market – fans have been disappointed by the lack of an arcade version of games
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