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Sega to scale back operations in Japan, arcades to be affected
Many companies are scaling back in their operations right now and with some arcade companies are being affected as well. That includes Sega, which has announced that they will be “soliciting voluntary retirements” (aka trying to lay off)
Read More »Beck's "Bad Cartridge" grooves to violent arcade games
In a new music video for a song entitled “Bad Cartridge” by the band Beck, they have a tribute to 8-bit gaming – and in a way to arcades as well. I don’t want to
Read More »Want to own an arcade? Get one on eBay!
(Thanks to Jarett Waite for the tip) I get e-mails fairly often from people looking into starting their own arcade business and I think that it’s great that so many people want to get
Read More »Missed news: Cecropia shuts it's doors
(Thanks to Jarett Waite for the tip) I should have been on top of this a while back but somehow it missed my radar until now. Cecropia, the company responsible for creating the coin-op
Read More »Review: War Final Assault by Atari Games
I know that I posted a review not that long ago (of another Atari title, Asteroids Deluxe) but I haven’t had a lot of time to spend on researching news but I did have
Read More »Exercise-based arcade opens in Rockford, IL
Video games often come under fire from health police for being a sedentary activity, most recently in a UK television advert for a government backed health campaign which caused a bit of controversy. However,
Read More »An ASI preview from Betson with Guitar Hero and DDR:X action
Speaking of arcade shows (see our AOU post below this one), ASI/AMOA is just around the corner as well in Las Vegas come March and distributor Betson has already sent out a release showcasing
Read More »ATEI 2009 – Videos
Apologies for the wait, but here is all the video footage that I managed to get at ATEI last week. Didn’t get every game unfortunately, but hopefully there’s enough here to get you excited! Also,
Read More »Big Buck Safari Online tourney for February – Jungle Jam
Play Mechanix just wanted me to pass along the newest online tournament for Big Buck Safari and once again, 20 people have a chance at winning some cash. They also have simplified the process
Read More »Some game records set at ATEI 2009
There was more to ATEI 2009 than just showing off some games – there were some gaming records to be set as well! The Guiness World Records Team was at the show and caught
Read More »EVO Championship Series 2009 Game line-up announced
Everybody’s favorite arcade fighter tournament, the Evolution Championship Series (aka EVO) is slowly coming up (it happens in July in good ol’ Las Vegas) and as such they have revealed the list of games
Read More »Yoshinori Ono answers questions about the arcade version of SFIV
I apologize for the lack of updates the past couple of days, my internet access is being strained by the necessity of other duties in life but I will be giving updates as often
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