The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025
With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or »
EAG Expo 2025 Preview
The first major amusement-focused trade show of this year is now just around the corner, »
Newsbytes Rhythm Game Special: Maimai DX Testing In Chicago, Bubble Bobble In Music Diver, Headlines & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes that covers everything happening in »
Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade
It has been quite a long time since we last reported on a new arcade »
Stern Pinball Unveils Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye
It’s the first week of January, which aside from it being a new year, means »
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Dome Screen Gaming Gets A Crowd Multiplayer Upgrade With Fulldome Pro
VR often steals the headlines when it comes to new gaming experiences to use unique tech but there is another type of visual mechanism that is looking to give VR a run for its
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Weekend News: Pinball Gremlins Funded; Emporium Logan Square Opens in IL; Name That Game #11
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer is already half-way over. Depending on your perspective, that is either a good thing or a bad one. I’m fine with it staying warm
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UNIS Unveils Armed Resistance & Bio Outbreak For Arcades
Sorry about the hiccups on the site today, I am still working on it trying to figure out what is wrong. It isn’t a plug-in gone haywire and not a server issue apparently so
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New Trailer For Konami’s Silent Scope Bone Eater
Back on Christmas Eve 2013, news came along that Konami was testing out a new arcade sniper game in Japan they were calling GUNDOG. It didn’t take long for this to become known as
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Unkle Munkey’s Coin Club Now Open in Edwardsville, IL
Illinois continues to be the land of the new arcade location, why that is precisely I am not sure, but it is surprising that so many arcade venues have opened their doors their over
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America’s Most Haunted Pinball; Initial D8; Name That Game #10
Well this week has been a slow one for news, I’ve been busy otherwise. One thing I took care of this week was checking out a spot at the Salt Lake Comic Con. Myself
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Bandai Namco Revelations: Tekken 7, Lost Land Adventure, Mario Kart Update
As EVO 2014 started, a rumor popped up on the internet that Bandai Namco was working on Tekken 7. It didn’t take long for that to turn from rumor to fact as the company
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Newsbytes: Ubisoft & Alterface Team Up For Rabbids Invasion; R-Kaid Unit
Another weekend, another weekend post. I have a couple of things in the works coming soon – first that video I promised a month ago will be posted this next week. I was trying
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A New Electromechanical Arcade Game Twist On Tug-O-War: Divorce
It is somewhat rare to see a story about a new Electro-Mechanical (EM) arcade machine since those were long ago replaced by video arcade games but much like pinball, I think that the right
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Coastal Amusements Releases Temple Run 2 Arcade & SharpShooter
Just because you see and play some games at a trade show does not mean that those games are available right away, although in the arcade industry, it generally means they are very close.
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Museum of Pinball Prepping For The Inaugural Arcade Expo Coming January 2015
(Thanks to Kent Fund for the tip) Remember the Museum of Pinball? If not, here is a refresher. Unfortunately like some other Kickstarter projects to launch or improve arcade venues, the goals were not
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