July Trade Shows: Bowl Expo & IAAPA Expo Asia 2025
With July fully underway, it’s time to take a look at a couple more trade »
Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates Disembarks Into Western Shores
After its initial release in Japan and overseas launch at IAAPA 2024 late last year, »
Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More
Welcome once again to Newsbytes, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that goes over »
On Test: Star Wars Death Star Assault, Beatmania IIDX 33 Sparkle Shower, Earthion EXA Label
Though usually light on big announcements or releases, Summer often brings with it a good »
exA-Arcadia Puts Daemon Bride exAGAIN & Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Up For Pre-Order
While Summer often means a slowdown in new arcade game announcements and releases, that hasn’t »
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Castle Crashers The Arcade Game to be at PAX
While scrolling fighters have all but disappeared in the arcade industry in recent years (with a few notable exceptions such as Oriental Legend 2, Justice League or Dynamite Deka EX), the genre has been
Read More »If you build it, they will come and play
When Aaron Auzins sent me this video from the opening of the Galloping Ghost Arcade (they are promising to send more media as well which I have added to our previous GGA post to
Read More »Namco unveils Pac-Man's Arcade Party
Namco has already shown their enthusiasm in celebrating Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with Pac-Man Battle Royale (due next month) but you can now add two arcade titles to the ways of how they are celebrating.
Read More »UK Pinball Party starts tomorrow
Pinball junkies in the UK have a big event to look forward to, the UK Pinball Party. It begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday although they already have held a warming up event with
Read More »More Guitar Hero cabinets from Brazil
During my recent trip to Brazil I came across a number of Guitar Hero cabinets, produced by Brazilian game distributor Diverbras. I also came across a Rock Band 2 cabinet and a couple of
Read More »The most impractical, yet cool Ferrari simulator of the day
Newsfeed 899 via We’ve seen a number of racing simulators come onto the scene lately but none of them can make the claim that this one has. It’s controlled by a gigantic robotic arm.
Read More »Galloping Ghost Arcade open Friday night in Brookfield, IL (UPDATED with launch photos)
The new arcade facility headed by the group developing a new arcade fighter Dark Presence will be opening it’s doors tomorrow night @ 11:59PM and judging by the video they sent us, they have
Read More »GRID, Let's Go Island launching soon
Sega Amusements UK has sent out invites to an upcoming product launch event and Kevin Williams shared with us what the invitation looks like. 6 new products are being launched there, including GRID which
Read More »Terminator Salvation 32" cabinet
It’s been a few weeks since we first heard about the new Terminator Salvation arcade cabinet that has a smaller 32″ screen and mounted guns but except for a quick look on the AAMA
Read More »More Japanese location tests reports: Darius Burst and Chaos Code
(Thanks to ECM for the tip on Darius) When it comes to public location tests Japan rarely disappoints and we’ve got two to talk about today. First, popular game site Famitsu weighs in on
Read More »So a Chicago Bulls Dancer and a Cagefighter walk into an arcade and…
On Raw Thrills’ Twitter feed yesterday, they posted a link to a picture showing a Chicago Bulls Dancer working on a video shoot for something that they are working on. This video shoot also
Read More »Kevin Williams: "Coin-op is still ahead of console"
AH friend and contributor Kevin Williams, who heads up The Stinger Report has penned a feature article for Computerandvideogames.com and where he is an amusement industry expert, his subject: coin-op games. But more importantly,
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