Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
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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 »
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Getting to know Dirty Drivin’ and Specular Interactive
Earlier this year we learned about a new arcade title in development by Specular Interactive called Dirty Drivin’. In 2009 they created a spiritual successor to Hydro Thunder called H2Overdrive. Some of the team
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Sega’s Operation G.H.O.S.T. in motion
(Via ) We’ve seen pictures and talked about it a bit already but now, we finally get to see the game briefly in action – Sega’s follow-up to GHOST Squad, Operation GHOST. It’s a
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Namco to debut Dark Escape 3D at JAMMA ’11
Next week in Japan, the JAMMA Expo will take place and with it, new games will be announced. As is typical, some of those announcements come before the show and today Namco has unveiled
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Dido Kart 2 and Project X-Pher now available from InJoy Motion
As we get into the end of the year we can now expect to start seeing more game releases coming along, just in time for the end of the year holiday season. Today, Taiwanese
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Arcade Related: Atari’s Arcade Duo for iPad; Arcade pin set
Newsfeeds 1106 & 1107 via While I work on an article for my visit to Specular Interactive yesterday, The Stinger Report sent us a few arcade related stuff that’s quick and easy to get
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Aiming for the High Score…and Charity
(Thanks to Glenn Thomas for the info) Taking on a gaming marathon on a classic arcade title is no simple task in most cases and when it’s all said and done, the result is
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Two from Taito: Magical Music and Legendary Cannon
This month there are two major conventions taking place in Japan – the Tokyo Game Show and the 49th JAMMA Show. JAMMA is usually the time for manufacturers to show off a lot of
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Chinese Theme Park creates life-size Angry Birds game and could face legal action
Newsfeed 1104 via So far when it comes to rip-off and bootleg games, what we have seen come out of China hasn’t attracted enough attention to warrant legal action. That or it has been
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ArcSystem Works Releasing Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka to arcades in 2012
(Via a tweet and forum post at ArcadeOtaku) ArcSystem Works, makers of fighting games like BlazBlue has another 2D fighter in the works for arcades and this one is called Persona 4: The Ultimate
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Obscura’s CueLight Interactive Pool Table System
Newsfeed 1103 via A couple of years ago Sega showed off a surprise development at the annual JAMMA show in Tokyo called Heat-Up Air Hockey. It used an overhead projector to create an image
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From the AAMA Gala: Sega’s Operation GHOST, Dirty Drivin’, Flight Control FX
We had a little more to share from the AAMA Gala that took place a short time ago in Lincolnshire, IL and as promised, here you are. First is Sega’s latest light-gun shooter Operation
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Namco considering location testing Tekken Tag 2 in the US
(Thanks to ArcadeBelgium for retweeting this!) In an answer to a question from a fan today, Tekken producer Harada gave us some arcade news to talk about. The latest Tekken coming to market, Tekken
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