Konami Releases Contra Burst To Round1USA
Late last year, word spread around in arcade circles about a brand new Contra video »
Alan-1 Launches Soda Slam!
Alan-1 has announced that they have begun shipping their third title, the enhanced version of »
Adrenaline’s Hot Wheels: Victory Lap Lands At Dave & Busters
Just over a month back, we ran a story on a brand new Hot Wheels »
PAC-MAN Celebrates 45 Years Of Dot Eating, Ghost Chasing Fun
If you were to pick a “mascot” for the arcade industry, the chances are that »
Pop-A-Shot Elite Is Now Available
Pop-A-Shot, inventors of the original basketball arcade machine, have announced that their return to the »
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Japanese Developer Level 5 Enters Arcade Market With Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme
Newsfeed 1124 via They have quite a few console games under their belt including the popular Professor Layton series of games and now Japanese developer Level 5 is ready to jump into the arcade
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Meet GHOST Squad’s biggest fan
Sure it’s easy to cosplay these days but it’s one thing to dress up as your favorite game character and entirely something else when you play the game acting out all of the actions.
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Hands-On with Infinity Blade FX
As announced yesterday, the arcade port of the iOS game Infinity Blade known as Infinity Blade FX would make it’s first public appearance at the GEEX show in Sandy, UT. As that is nearby
Read More »Attract Mode Trailer for Infinity Blade FX
The GEEX Show is about to start in about an hour and there show attendees will get a chance for some hands-on time with the TouchFX version of Infinity Blade FX that was announced
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Transformers Pinball Launch Party Listings
(Thanks to IcePagoda in the forums for the tip!) UPDATE: Stern has updated the list that is slightly different from what’s posted above If you’re itching to get your hands on Stern’s latest pinball
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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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