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Happy AOU Day! New arcade games from Japan
The slow early year news cycle has had us counting down to this event in Japan, the AOU Expo where different amusement companies get together to show off some of their latest ideas and
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Triangle Services/ Sega bringing Love Arcade to AOU2012 + Flying Robots
As mentioned yesterday, news will be trickling out about the upcoming AOU 2012 event in Japan that takes place in about two weeks and today Sega opened up some of their plans as to
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Astro Ranger Re-Appears Out Of The Blue
There are times where we hear about a game, it presents a cool or unique concept and then we never hear about it again. Namco’s Afrec! comes to mind. Then there are times where
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Namco’s New Dark Escape 3D on Location Test in Japan
UPDATE: We have the first look at the US version of the game here. Later this year Namco has a new horror-themed light-gun shooter on its way to arcades, similar to Deadstorm Pirates but
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Taito aims to expand Japanese stores to 100; New Gyrozetter info
Happy (belated) New Year everyone. I hope that the time went by without a negative incident for everyone. Newsfeed 1151 via First piece of news for 2012, just so happens to be an article
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Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada Details Fan Support and Arcade Business in Tohoku Quake Aftermath
Newsfeed 1146 via When natural disasters hit, the immediate concern for the survivors is to keep on surviving and to make the best out of a terrible situation. It’s not just your physical side
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Square Enix and ByKing Inc. cooking up a new arcade title for 2012
When it coems to arcade titles, Square Enix might not be a household name in that regard but that seems to be due for a change. We recently ran news of their transforming arcade
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Sega testing sequel to Card Gen; Wangan 4 out in Japan today
More arcade news from Japan today, first from Sega. This is an unusual case – originally back in 2009 Sega first debuted a new concept called Sega Card Gen MLB 2010 at a US
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News from Japan: Namco Dark Escape 3D Details; Sega Maimai loctest; Konami Pop N’ Music 20 release
There were a few different arcade news items coming out of Japan today so I figured it would be useful to combine them into one post. Let’s start off with the quick stuff, both
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Square Enix’s New Arcade Game That Will Transform
Newsfeed 1138 via Robots that change into something else is a hot ticket item right now and as such, that’s bound to spill over into the arcade space to some degree. We saw a
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Japanese Developer Level 5 Enters Arcade Market With Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme
Newsfeed 1124 via They have quite a few console games under their belt including the popular Professor Layton series of games and now Japanese developer Level 5 is ready to jump into the arcade
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Toyota Makes World’s Largest UFO Catcher
How big is the craze behind Sega’s UFO Catcher in Japan? Pretty big, in more ways than one. As a part of a family promotion, Toyota created the world’s largest UFO Catcher crane this
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