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Virtua Fighter 5 R released in Japan
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
Read More »Neo-Arcadia's booth @ Japan Expo 2008
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
Read More »Street Fighter 4 Arcade Posters
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
Read More »Guitar Freaks v5 & DrumMania v5 hit arcades in Japan
[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
Read More »DoDonPachi Dai Fukkatsu released
[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
Read More »Robot Boxing returns to Japan with "GearRobo"
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
Read More »Article: Arcade Perfect
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
Read More »Konami's HorseRiders – an interesting twist on the card-based video game
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
Read More »Some news from games in Japan
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
Read More »Income results on Japanese arcade games
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
Read More »An arcade by women for women
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
Read More »Even more Street Fighter IV News
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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