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Location Watch October 2024: New Arcades Celebrate Grand Openings

Location Watch October 2024: New Arcades Celebrate Grand Openings

arcadehero October 30, 2024 0

Welcome to Location Watch, a regular series of posts that curates news about recent arcade business openings from around the world, into one place. Our last Location Watch is from August. Thanks to our

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The IAAPA Expo Europe 2024 Round-Up

The IAAPA Expo Europe 2024 Round-Up

arcadehero September 28, 2024 0

The biggest IAAPA Expo Europe event to date has now wrapped up, and thanks to our sources that have been out there in Amsterdam this week (and some official social media channels), we can

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New Trailer & Info For DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour

New Trailer & Info For DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour

arcadehero September 6, 2024 0

The bar/arcade scene is still quite vibrant, yet there aren’t a ton of new games out there for such locations to choose from. Retro sustains their gaming sides for the most part, but the

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Kevin Williams: Dance The Night Away To The Rhythm Resurgence

Kevin Williams: Dance The Night Away To The Rhythm Resurgence

arcadehero August 12, 2024 2

Guest contributor & industry specialist Kevin Williams is back, this time taking a look at the “rhythm resurgence” as music games return to prominence on the gaming scene. Take it away Kevin! KWP: In

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Attending Expos: California Extreme 2024 & Utah Retro GameXpo 2024

Attending Expos: California Extreme 2024 & Utah Retro GameXpo 2024

arcadehero August 10, 2024 0

Things have been a little bit quiet for the blog lately, but I’ve been super busy. Big nod to Ted for helping out on many stories and drafts during this time. In the meantime,

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Two New From Marvelous: Naruto Emblem Battle (NA), Pokemon Frienda (JP)

Two New From Marvelous: Naruto Emblem Battle (NA), Pokemon Frienda (JP)

arcadehero July 12, 2024 0

The dog days of summer have been dragging on as usual, and arcade news has been fairly quiet in more ways than one of late. Part of that is down to this very site

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International Bowl Expo 2024 Preview

International Bowl Expo 2024 Preview

arcadehero June 30, 2024 0

It’s time for your middle-of-the-year arcade event known as Bowl Expo, although this one is meant to focus on bowling. Since most bowling centers happen to have an arcade on-site, their annual get-together now

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Phantom Breaker Omnia Now Available To Order For Arcades

Phantom Breaker Omnia Now Available To Order For Arcades

arcadehero June 29, 2024 0

A new 2.5D fighting game is now available for arcades to grab, thanks to exA-Arcadia’s latest release, Phantom Breaker Omnia. Based upon the fighting title of the same name, exA has made some upgrades

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Monster Eye 3 Launches In China; Heads Stateside In August

Monster Eye 3 Launches In China; Heads Stateside In August

arcadehero June 28, 2024 0

June is about over, but we’ve got a new game to discuss that should satisfy fans of mounted gun arcade games. Let’s take a look at Monster Eye 3, by IGS & Wahlap. Monster

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Funhouse Pinball To Return With An Official Remake

Funhouse Pinball To Return With An Official Remake

arcadehero May 17, 2024 1

Ask any long time pinball player about their favorite games, and chances are that Funhouse by Williams will come up at some point. Designed by Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar, it was released right

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EVO Japan 2024 Day 2: Additional Arcade Fighting Games Via exA-Arcadia

EVO Japan 2024 Day 2: Additional Arcade Fighting Games Via exA-Arcadia

arcadehero April 27, 2024 0

It’s day 2 for EVO Japan 2024, and as we saw yesterday, several arcade games were announced. Today, there are more! All of these are coming to the exA-Arcadia platform and while they are

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EVO Japan 2024 Day 1: exA-Arcadia Announces New Arcade Fighters

EVO Japan 2024 Day 1: exA-Arcadia Announces New Arcade Fighters

arcadehero April 26, 2024 4

EVO Japan 2024 is now underway, and this year it means new arcade games. Normally we don’t get much location-based entertainment (LBE) arcade news out of EVO, but in large part thanks to exA-Arcadia,

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