Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Now Available; GameMill Brings Fast & Furious Arcade To Consoles
We’ve got a couple of items to discuss today, stuff that I meant to get »
Newsbytes: Utah Retro GameXpo 2025; Speed Rider 4DX; Konami Tests New Gashaaaan!; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series here on Arcade Heroes that covers quick news from around »
Bandai Namco Announces One Piece Dawn Strike – New Punching Arcade Game
The new arcade games just keep on coming with Bandai Namco, as today they have »
Qualifiers Open For The Wahlap E-Sports Championship 2025
eSports don’t belong just to the realm of PC gaming and Smash Bros – there »
LAI Games Releases Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars To All Arcades
As we run through the dog days of summer, it’s time for another big arcade »
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Newsbytes: Play Mechanix Turns 20; MaxiTune 5 In The US; REVO
Happy weekend everyone. Due to a press release, I’ve broken this post up between two tabs, otherwise the main post content is below
Read More »New Location: Boss Battle Games (Indianapolis, IN)
I was going to make this post about two new locations but when investigating one of them that has opened in South Florida, they didn’t have any actual arcade machines, instead preferring to use emulators inside
Read More »FUN IS Mobile App Announced To Drive Customer Interest To Amusement Locations
The modern arcade industry is in an interesting spot – while retail spots face a lot of challenges up against the digital store juggernauts, arcades still require on-spot visitation. The gaming trends have also
Read More »New For Videmption: Timberman Arcade by Magic Play
In case you hadn’t noticed, the trend that is ‘so hot right now’ in the arcade market are videmption games and on top of that, porting mobile games to the arcade for a larger
Read More »Retro: Space Harrier’s 30th Anniversary – Happy Birthday to Space Harrier
Happy Birthday to Space Harrier! 2015 marks the 30th Anniversary of the famous Sega arcade game, Space Harrier. This game is loved by many people and has become kind of a cult classic to
Read More »Ghostbusters Videmption Arcade In Action
(Thanks to Jdevy for the tip) November is one month where you can expect to hear a lot about new arcade games coming out of the woodwork as this month is like the arcade
Read More »New Details On Play Mechanix’s New MotoGP Arcade
We recently mentioned a new motorcycle racing game that was soon coming to the market, MotoGP by Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills. Today the company released some official announcements about it to better detail
Read More »Newsbytes Halloween Edition: Real Drive; Hooligans Family Fun; Dissidia
Happy Halloween everyone! This is the one day of the year that I get more people walking in front of my arcade than any other…of course 95% of them don’t walk in at that
Read More »Arcade Review: Play Port in Erie, PA and what Arcades are doing for Halloween
I recently had a chance to visit Play Port in Erie, PA. For those not familiar with this arcade it runs on a pay per person model, and the cost is $10 at the
Read More »The Lost Arcade Documentary Premiering At DOC NYC Nov. 14th & 18th
I have mentioned the famous Chinatown Arcade on the blog before, which had a rocky history in recent times. It closed down in 2011, was pseudo-resurrected as The Next Level Arcade and then the location
Read More »SkyCurser – Discussion And Unboxing Of This New JAMMA Arcade Kit
As mentioned on the blog the other day, I was expecting a new game to arrive into my hands this week that has some very interesting potential for our industry at large. Known as
Read More »Dragon’s Lair Gets A Kickstarter To Pitch A Non-Interactive Movie
I saw this spreading around all over the place yesterday so I’m not exactly hot on the press with it but no worries. This stuff always takes a back seat to new arcade games
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