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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New Media For Jersey Jack Pinball’s The Hobbit Pinball Game
The Hobbit films have been a success for MGM and New Line Cinema so far, nearing $1 billion total in earnings with more to go on the 2nd part, The Desolation of Smaug and
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New Flyer And Screenshots For Bandai Namco/Raw Thrills’ Super Alpine Racer
The next couple of months are going to be a busy time for new arcade releases and with that I’ve been looking to get my hands on more media for these titles. Thanks to
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Chuck E Cheeses Agrees To a $950 Million Buyout Deal
(Above: Chuck in happier times) Interesting news among locations lately – while chains like Dave & Busters and Round 1 USA expand, a more famous arcade chain looks to be in some trouble. Chuck
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Poster For Konami’s Gundog Offers First Glimpse Of The Cabinet
Just a few weeks ago on Christmas Eve, we received news that Konami was testing out a brand new sniper arcade game in Japan called Gundog. From the descriptions it sounded like a follow-up
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Video: Namco America’s IAAPA 2013 Booth Tour
Just a somewhat quick post here – Bandai Namco America has just released a video to show all of their new products that were are IAAPA 2013. So this not only gives a look
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Dave & Busters Aiming To Open 7 New Stores in 2014
(Image from a D&B location in the Northwest, USA) There are not many big chains of arcades or FECs in the Western world but there are a few. One of those, Dave & Busters,
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Sega Amusements To Showcase Wahlap’s Storm Racer G At EAG2014
A new trade show, EAG Expo 2014, is approaching fast and with it our first confirmation of a game that will be showcased there. EAG will be held January 21-23rd in London; Sega Amusements
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Japan Arcade News: Initial D8 Test; Puyo Puyo Quest Milestone; MSS Project + More
Next month a big arcade trade show will take place in Japan and in the run up to that news on new games is starting to warm up. Let’s take a look at the
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Bandai Namco Making Zombie Japanese Idol Light-Gun Game “Thrill Of The Night”
In addition to the new update to Deadstorm Pirates coming to Japan next month, there is another light-gun shooter in the works by Namco although this one really seems to fit into local tastes.
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Videos: Stern Pinball @ CES2014; A Tour of The Arcadia in Ryde (IOW, UK)
Newsfeed 1343 via Stern at CES Most of the big news I’ve heard coming out of CES has been famous movie director Michael Bay not handling teleprompter malfunctions very well but there is one
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The Arcade Floor Of Magfest 12
With 2014 now alive and kicking it means that throughout the year people will get a chance to attend annual events that feature arcades in some shape, manner or form. Events like California Extreme
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Megatouch Ceases Development/Production Operations
Here on Arcade Heroes we have rarely touched upon “bartop touchscreen games”. While they do fit into the out-of-home entertainment angle, they are an oddball, at least among other options that can go into
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