New Arcade Releases: Avian Knights (Alan-1); Sailor’s Quest 2 VR (UNIS); Super Drill (Ace)
It’s time to catch up on new arcade releases for North America, with three games »
EAG 2025 Recap – New Arcade Games In Europe
The earliest major amusement trade expo of the year, EAG 2025 (Entertainment Attractions & Gaming »
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
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Raw Thrills’ shows Dirty Drivin’ with some changes
A little over a month ago I had the opportunity to visit Specular Interactive’s offices in Irvine, CA and I got some hands-on time with their follow-up to H2Overdrive, Dirty Drivin’. Now Raw Thrills
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Infinity Blade FX coming to Arcades; launches at Dave & Busters Oct. 28th
(Thanks to Adrenaline Amusements for the info) We heard a rumor about this a while ago on our forums but today brought confirmation that the popular iOS app by Chair and Epic Games Infinity
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10 years later, direct footage of Namco’s Star Blade Operation Blue Planet
In 2001, Namco went to the Amusement Machine Show in Japan with a new prototype game to show off in a very unusual cabinet called ORBS (pictured above). The game inside – a sequel
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Seasons Beatings Fighter Event In Ohio This Weekend + Galloping Ghost Arcade expands
This weekend in Columbus Ohio some fights are going to go down, but of the virtual kind on a number of fighter games. Players from all over the world will gather to compete on
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Toyota Makes World’s Largest UFO Catcher
How big is the craze behind Sega’s UFO Catcher in Japan? Pretty big, in more ways than one. As a part of a family promotion, Toyota created the world’s largest UFO Catcher crane this
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Actual Yahoo! Headline: “Arcades Making A Comeback”
(Thanks to Jarett for the tip!) Well this is a pleasant change – we get to discuss an article on a mainstream media site that paints modern arcades in a positive light and more
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Taito’s Densha De Go! Returns in 2012
(Via AM-Net Blog) Back in 1997, Taito released a coin-op “train simulator” video game called Densha De Go!. That basically translates to “Let’s go by train!”. It was successful enough in Japan to warrant
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Stern Transformers Pinball in action
(Via ArcadeHunters on Twitter) It’s not the best video of Stern’s Transformers pinball being played but it is the first. I don’t have any commentary to add right now since it’s hard to tell
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Steve Jobs’ brief time in the arcade industry
I am sure that by now you have heard the news of Steve Jobs’ passing and with that there have been a number of articles out there covering some part of his personal history.
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Arcade Related Halloween Costumes
Now is probably a good time to get an order in for a Halloween costume if you haven’t done so already. If I ever consider it, it’s usually too late (such as a day
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Konami unveils World Soccer Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2012
We’ve never had an abundance of soccer/football games in the arcade industry although there have been a few here and there along with a couple of series that give us something new on occasion,
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Another look at Robo Restle as it arrives for a release
So today a new film is making it’s way to theaters called “Real Steel”. I haven’t seen it yet, not sure if I will be seeing it but there are a lot of commercials
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