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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Liberty Games Develops Tech To Enable Bitcoin-Payment For Arcades
Depending upon which circles in the coin-op industry you find yourself in, there has been a discussion in recent years over that term, coin-op and whether it should still apply thanks to digital payments
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New Screenshots From Play Mechanix’s Aliens Armageddon Arcade
A few weeks ago, Twitter was a bit busy over the news of a new game coming to home consoles based on the popular Fox franchise Aliens, a game called Aliens Isolation. While we
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Guilty Gear Xrd Sign Arcade Now Available In Japan
[Thanks to CD ageS for the tip] It’s been some time since we last heard of Arc System Works’ next installment of Guilty Gear, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, but as of today the game
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Pop Bumpers Pinball To Open In Weymouth, MA In February
More news on the pinball front, this time about a location. We have covered pinball-centric location openings before and while we don’t hear about those as often as an FEC or video arcade opening
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Newsbag: Konami Shows DDR Classroom Edition; Ultra Street Fighter IV Arcade Beta Test; CAVE ; Unboxing A Beatmania Cabinet
Newsfeeds 1344-47 via We’ve had a lot of news about pinball recently, now for a little arcade news of bytes that may not have completely warranted a standalone post for themselves. First off, we
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First Info On Mustang Pinball; Teaser for The Big Lebowski Pinball
Pinball fans rejoice, more news here about a couple of different pinball projects! First off, Pinballnews.com has compiled some sightings of Stern Pinball’s upcoming Mustang Pinball which should be released around March. The information
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Pat Lawlor Joins Jersey Jack To Make An Original Game
This just hit Youtube – Jersey Jack Pinball was teasing a big announcement coming soon and here it is, Pat Lawlor, who has designed some of the most memorable and best selling pinball machines
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Arcade Games That Turn 20 & 30 This Year
Last year I ran a little article about some major classics that were having an anniversary. 1983 was a tumultuous time in video games as the home market bubble burst and the fallout from
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Ultracade Counterfeit Case Comes To A Close With A Prison Sentence
It’s been quite a while since this story originally broke – back in 2009 an indictment came down that David R Foley and another person had conspired to sell counterfeit game packs for the
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Videos: Crazy Speed 2 (UNIS); Vulcan EX (Yoony); Making Star Trek Pinball + More EAG
Here are a few quick arcade videos to fill in your Thursday. Just added a couple of pinball related videos as well. First is a new driving game that was originally seen at IAAPA
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Pics from the EAG Expo 2014
The first major arcade/amusement industry trade show of the year is now underway in London, UK called EAG Expo. When AH first started the event was called the ATEI Show but the results tend
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New Shots of InJoy Motion’s Allied Tank Attack
One game I was hoping to get some hands-on time with late last year was InJoy Motion’s brand new Allied Tank Attack. There haven’t been very many tank games in arcades this past decade
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