Jersey Jack Pinball Unleashes The Magic of Harry Potter To Arcades
After months of teasing, the wait is finally over, as Jersey Jack Pinball has launched »
Raw Thrills Launches Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR Ultimate; Top Gun: Maverick
The wait is officially over, as the complete and “ultimate” version of Godzilla Kaiju Wars »
Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes »
LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) »
Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
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New Dragonball Z arcade game + Chinatown Fair Arcade in the NYT
Newsfeed 963 via We’ve got two different stories to cover here with this Stinger newsfeed, first we’ll start off with a new game that was unveiled in Japan by Namco called Dragonball Zenkai Battle
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Arcade Heroes Podcast – IAAPA edition
(Pic via Fillmore Games) It has been a while since we did a podcast – I know it doesn’t help our cause to lack consistency in producing these but at least we get something
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Some Darius Burst Arcade news
There is an important date coming up for some of us arcade nerds – December 17th. On that day two things are happening: first TRON Legacy will be released to theaters and second, Taito
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Who plays at the arcade in Japan and why? (UPDATED)
(UPDATED: thanks to one of our readers who translated a couple of the charts for us into English, they are posted below). Market data for the amusement industry is sometimes hard to come by,
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Sega jumping into the Chinese amusement market in 2011
Newsfeed 961 via As 2010 has unfolded before our very eyes, there is one trend in the worldwide amusement industry that we have seen gaining traction and that would be the development of new
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Brief glimpse at Dark Presence in new video
The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL has continued to make waves – from having several world records set at the location, to creating a cool Achievements system, to reaching over 1,000 Facebook fans
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Big Buck World released
We’ve known about it for a few months already but the latest installment to the popular Big Buck Hunter franchise, Big Buck World is now shipping according to BMI Gaming. That means that within
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IAAPA pics, Round 3
(Thanks to Joe J. for the tip) This was the second time I’ve attended IAAPA and both times I have noticed something – each time I have walked away with a nagging feeling that
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Taito’s Fall Product show (UPDATED)
Taito just held an event to show off some of their new products that they are bringing to the market in Japan and there are a few items worth mentioning here. Unfortunately the pictures
Read More »On this day of thanks…
Thanksgiving might be a US holiday and while we get both visitors and stories from all over the world, I see no problem in expressing some gratitude today before going out and having a
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More content announced for Taito’s NESICAxLIVE arcade; Haunted Museum 2 announced
Since Taito announced their new NESiCAxLIVE system for arcades, we’ve been eagerly waiting to see how it will work out. The release date for the system hasn’t arrived just yet (it’s only a few
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New arcade open in Austin, TX – Pinballz Arcade
This past Saturday a new entertainment venue opened up in Austin, Texas called Pinballz Arcade. As the name implies, they have a strong focus on pinball gaming (although it’s not the sole part of
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