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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The Gran Turismo 5 simulator at Mercedes-Benz
Newsfeed 1118 via It won’t be showing up at an arcade venue near you anytime soon, but it’s got kind of the same idea. Although I’m sure if GT5 ever made an arcade appearance
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Konami brings Dance Masters to arcades as Dance Evolution Arcade
(Image via AM-Net Blog) It’s been a while since we first heard that Konami was thinking about taking their Xbox 360 Kinect title, Dance Masters and turning it into an arcade title. According to
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Doing the laundry, arcade style
Newsfeed 1117 via One place where you might come across an arcade game that isn’t an arcade, FEC, or bar is a coin-op laundry. Usually it’s just a couple of games tucked away in
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Leftover arcades wasting away at the Nara Dreamland
Newsfeed 1115 via and GameSetWatch When an amusement park or other large FEC goes out of business,they often leave some stuff behind. Perhaps there wasn’t enough interest from buyers at the time or the
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Big Buck Hunter 2011 World Championship Starts Tomorrow
(Thanks to Kelly for the info) It’s that time again, time for the best Big Buck Hunters from around the world come together and duke it out – in a virtual sense – for
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Sega releases RaceTV to R-Tuned conversion kit
It’s been a little while since we had a kit release to discuss but Sega Amusements sent out a release today for one. If you happen to have a Sega RaceTV unit, you can
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Blazing Angels gets a new cabinet release
(Tip via The Stinger Report) In 2008 GlobalVR brought the popular console title Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII out to arcades in a deluxe sit-down cabinet. There haven’t been many entries in recent years
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The Konami Arcade Championship 2011 coming to Japan next week
Newsfeed 1114 via One strength of arcade games is that their skill-based nature allows for great competitions, some of which are worthy of dramatized documentaries. Some games are more skill-based than others and when
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The DIY Crane: NXT Claw Game
(Thanks to Joe for the Tip; via Makezine.com) Filed under the “Legos/Erector Sets/Etc., Is there Anything They Can’t Do?” category
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Celebrate Donkey Kong’s Birthday this Weekend @ Star Worlds Arcade Classic Game Celebration
Many great games came out 30 years ago in 1981 and plenty of those games are iconic enough to hold players attention today. Among the more famous ’81 titles is Donkey Kong which has
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Race Simulator Center opening in Montreal Canada in November
One part of the arcade experience that we occasionally touch on is the area of simulators. Simulating something from real life as closely as possible is something that can often be done pretty well
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Ye Olde Coin-Op Games
(Thanks for the tip Imran!) While our primary obsession here has to do with either coin-op video games or pinball, there was a time before the video age where you still could get coin-op
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