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Virtua Fighter 5 R released in Japan

Virtua Fighter 5 R released in Japan

Twisted Supreme July 29, 2008 0

  The game has been on location over the past few months but now Virtua Fighter 5 R has now been officially released in Japan. The upgraded game has new features and new character

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Neo-Arcadia's booth @ Japan Expo 2008

Neo-Arcadia's booth @ Japan Expo 2008

Shaggy July 12, 2008 0

Japan Expo 2008 was recently held in France and arcade-related website Neo-Arcadia was there with a booth and plenty of screenshots to boot. The arcade presence at the expo brought many games into one

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Street Fighter 4 Arcade Posters

Street Fighter 4 Arcade Posters

Twisted Supreme June 26, 2008 3

You know what they say; things come in 3’s. That and all I keep coming across this morning is Street Fighter news. I’ll keep this one short and sweet. The Japanese Street Fighter 4

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Guitar Freaks v5 & DrumMania v5 hit arcades in Japan

Guitar Freaks v5 & DrumMania v5 hit arcades in Japan

Twisted Supreme June 24, 2008 4

  [Kotaku via IT] Good to see that Konami’s instrument games are still going strong. It’s just a shame we don’t get to see these games that much in the UK. I’d like to think

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DoDonPachi Dai Fukkatsu released

DoDonPachi Dai Fukkatsu released

Shaggy May 31, 2008 2

[Image via Killercabs Forum] I am a little late on this as i wanted to research it a little if I could find the time but forum member Molloy pointed out that the new

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Robot Boxing returns to Japan with "GearRobo"

Robot Boxing returns to Japan with "GearRobo"

Shaggy May 25, 2008 1

I never played with a Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em robots game as a kid, it seemed ok but too static for my tastes. Now here is an arcade game coming out this summer in

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Article: Arcade Perfect

Article: Arcade Perfect

Shaggy April 26, 2008 0

One thing that we have been preaching about for a long time is how arcades can and need to progress beyond the typical fare of racers, light-gun games, dancing titles, etc. That is a

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Konami's HorseRiders – an interesting twist on the card-based video game

Konami's HorseRiders – an interesting twist on the card-based video game

Shaggy April 9, 2008 0

Of the games I had been hoping to catch at ASI this year was Sanguozhi War 3 by Sega. It had been tested in Chicago but had since disappeared on the US scene. The

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Some news from games in Japan

Some news from games in Japan

Shaggy April 3, 2008 0

A bit of Japan news here (which as always we must keep in mind that something here may or may not show up outside of Japan although we always hope that it will), first

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Income results on Japanese arcade games

Income results on Japanese arcade games

Shaggy March 12, 2008 1

One thing that operators always want to know about before buying a game is “Did it test well?”. Good testing generally (but not always) indicates how well a game will do elsewhere although publishers

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An arcade by women for women

An arcade by women for women

Shaggy March 6, 2008 0

Perhaps if the translation of the page made more sense I could make a more complete commentary on this but in Japan there is an arcade that is “made by women, for women”. This

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Even more Street Fighter IV News

Even more Street Fighter IV News

Twisted Supreme February 27, 2008 0

It’s never ending isn’t it? Two more pieces of SF4 news has filtered through, both from Kotaku. First up there is talk that the console version of Street Fighter 4 will include a bigger roster. This

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