July Trade Shows: Bowl Expo & IAAPA Expo Asia 2025
With July fully underway, it’s time to take a look at a couple more trade »
Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates Disembarks Into Western Shores
After its initial release in Japan and overseas launch at IAAPA 2024 late last year, »
Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More
Welcome once again to Newsbytes, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that goes over »
On Test: Star Wars Death Star Assault, Beatmania IIDX 33 Sparkle Shower, Earthion EXA Label
Though usually light on big announcements or releases, Summer often brings with it a good »
exA-Arcadia Puts Daemon Bride exAGAIN & Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Up For Pre-Order
While Summer often means a slowdown in new arcade game announcements and releases, that hasn’t »
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Indie Arcades 2018: Cosmotrons Update
Could 2018 be the year of indie ‘true arcade’ game? After yesterday’s news of Tipsy Raccoon and the upcoming releases of titles like Rashlander, Project Armor(formerly Strike Harbinger) and Kraut Buster it is starting
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Just for Bar/Arcades In 2018: Tipsy Raccoons
We’ve been following the “bar/arcade” trend for what seems like an eternity now and contrary to some expectations (including my own), such businesses continue to hold on or in some cases expand their operations.
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Pac-Man Goes AR With Pac In Town
If you’re into the somewhat obscure parts of arcade history, then you might recall that during the first run of VR amusement tech in the 1990s that Pac-Man VR was a real thing. It
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Pump It Up Prime 2 2018 Update Released To Arcades
Happy New Year readers! We already get to start the month off with a piece of news, although if you’re into rhythm gaming then you probably know that this was coming. Not to mention
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Newsbytes: Space Invaders 40th; Interviews & Podcasts; Cuphead Arcade; Input Lag & More
The site has been fairly quiet this month as there hasn’t been a ton of news to go over but there have been some items floating around out there. Here’s to 2018 with our
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Business Is Good; Top 10 Posts On Arcade Heroes Of 2017
The Arcade Business Is Doing Well 2017 has been an awesome year for arcade gaming. From a business perspective, myself and many others have seen profits increase as interest has held strong for people
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Merry Newsbytes: Hado Singapore; The Void UK; DDR; Legend Heroes Sports & More
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays fellow arcade gamers. Today’s newsbytes will catch up on some Stinger Report newsfeeds and a few other items. Difficult to find one Atari Sky Diver, let alone three (not
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X Games Snowboarder Officially Released; Shipping Now
This bit of news is actually a couple of weeks old…and it probably would have made the most sense to share it on Winter Solstice….better late than never, I’ve been too busy, etc., etc.
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Sega Announces Free Software Update For Daytona Championship USA [UPDATED]
Arcades and software updates have changed a bit over the years. It wasn’t too long ago that most were handled by a CD or DVD that your distributor might send your way, although most
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New Arcades: Archie Brothers Electric Circus; The Arcade; GOAT Sports Bar; Paradiso Game Room; VR Star UK
It’s time for another update on new arcade locations that are opening their doors out there in the world, so let’s get to it! Archie Brothers Electric Circus – Sydney, Australia A new FEC
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Andamiro Previews 2018 Update For Pump It Up Prime 2
When Andamiro first unveiled Pump It Up Prime 2 at the end of 2016, they mentioned that the game would be receiving updates on an enhanced basis over previous titles in the PIU series.
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American Pinball’s Houdini: Master Of Mystery Now Available
It has been a while since we last mentioned Houdini: Master Of Mystery pinball – October of last year in fact. While a bit of time has passed, development on the game continued apace,
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