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Namco Launches Their Star Wars Battle Pod Game Locator
Back in February, we reported that Bandai Namco Amusements America (the US arcade wing of the BN company) was working on building a Star Wars Battle Pod game locator. One frequent complaint I hear
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Bandai Namco Opening VR Zone Project i Can In Tokyo This April
There have been “whispers” about more out-of-home amusement VR projects coming their way although it hasn’t entirely been clear who is working on what. With today’s news we can remove Bandai Namco Amusements off
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Amusement Expo 2016: The Wrap Up
Amusement Expo 2016 has come and gone and as we find with any trade show, we come away with some videos of new games. If you live in the Western USA and didn’t get
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Newsbytes: BOSA Awards; Video Whac-A-Mole; Coleco; Galloping Ghost Goes 500; NTG#77b
It’s the last weekend before the next trade show for the US arcade industry, the Amusement Expo International 2016 show. I’ll be there to check out the latest and greatest, including the new Ghostbusters
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Newsbytes: Disney Quest; Indies including NEON FM, VEC9, Skycurser; NTG#71
We’ve got a bit of arcade news, especially for indie arcade developments going into this weekend so buckle up and let’s get to it! Disney Quest Not Closing Rumor – (Thanks to Michael Louie
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Newsbytes: Tekken 7 Fated Retribution; Skycurser; Museca; NTG67b
Hello all you fine arcaders out there, I hope you are having a great weekend. Let’s compile some arcade news! Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Announced (Thanks to CD ageS for the tip) – A new
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Round-Up Of The Latest Video Arcade Games Coming To The West (Early 2016)
The dust has settled on IAAPA 2015, the big industry trade show where the latest products and ideas for the US arcade market are shown off in all their glory. Since that is a
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Time Crisis 5 Mastermind Update Now Available Worldwide
(Thanks to Kieran May for the initial tip) When we first found out about Bandai Namco’s Time Crisis 5 last year, it was revealed that the game would initially ship with three levels and
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Japan Update: Pokken Tournament Now Available; Sega Testing Mario & Sonic At The Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition
Well when it comes to news, Japan is on fire this week. Let’s get started with one game that everyone has been talking about for some time now: Pokken Tournament Released – The day
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Star Wars Battle Pod Unboxing
It was recently mentioned on an Arcade Heroes podcast that I was going to be getting my hands on a Star Wars Battle Pod. As with many of these new big games, it wasn’t
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Star Wars Battle Pod Gets A Special Home Release
(Thanks to Kevin Williams for the tip) I meant to get to this yesterday but was occupied with working on the latest podcast(which we also forgot to mention on the podcast…whoops). Here’s the headline:
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Looking Back At Pac-Man As The Game Turns 35
Today marks the 35th anniversary of a legend in video gaming, particularly in arcades. That would be the arcade release of Namco’s Pac-Man to Japanese arcades. There is a big celebration going on at
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