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IAAPA 2010 – Namco Booth
Next up as part of our IAAPA 2010 coverage is Namco. Like Amusement Expo, the company had a large booth where Pac-Man was a big star but they also had plenty of other new
Read More »Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson IAAPA line-up announced with Big Buck World, new Frogger
The Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson group has unveiled their line-up of games for IAAPA and for anyone planning on heading to the show, you’ll have plenty to check out. While most of the games on
Read More »PGM2 hardware gets some attention starting in December
Back in early 2008, Taiwan-based IGS released a new hardware platform called the PGM2. It was a JAMMA machine with excellent 2D capabilities, 4-player support and it accepted cartridges. They released one game with
Read More »Friction debuting at IAAPA next week
We have been following the development of the independently made arcade title Friction for a couple of years now and I’m happy to pass along the latest information about the game, coming to us
Read More »Some Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in action
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is still months away from an arcade release but while you wait it can’t hurt to see the game in action as it was shown this past weekend at a
Read More »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
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes – the making of GRID
Arcade Heroes is proud to bring you an exclusive behind the scenes report on the development of GRID! Please note that the video and many of the shots in this article are from the
Read More »Halloween special: Zombies at the arcade!
(Updated: I ran this story back in 2010 but have given it some brushing up in 2013) If you are into video games at all, then you have likely noticed the big fad these
Read More »Official release announcement for Namco’s Dead Heat
While we talked about the release of Namco’s latest game, Dead Heat just a couple of posts ago, Namco America has an official announcement for the release that they would like to share. This
Read More »New releases: Super Bikes 2, Dead Heat, Terminator Salvation standard
You’ve read about these games on Arcade Heroes and now you may soon find a chance to play them at a location near you. BMI Gaming shows that the three games listed in the
Read More »Panda Panda and Black Sea: Strikes Back by Xinyu Games
Lately it seems that when arcade news in the Japan/US/Europe part of the market slows to crawl, then we can take a look at what’s going on in China and something new is being
Read More »Fast Striker released for the NeoGeo MVS
This past April we first heard about a new game for the NeoGeo MVS called Fast Striker by NG:DEV.TEAM in Germany. Now some months later the developers have had a chance to test the
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