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An update on Golden Tee Live 2011 and Incredible Technologies again named one of Chicago's best companies to work for
We’ve got some Incredible Technologies news today and with that we’ll start off with the company winning an award. That award is from the National Association for Business Resources (NABR) who has named IT
Read More »AVATAR Pinball's playfield mostly revealed
(Thanks for the tip IcePagoda) Via Pinballnews.com – the first shot of the new AVATAR pinball playfield. The pic speaks for itself – it looks like there is plenty to do in the back
Read More »Raw Thrills to release Super Bikes 2 this September
Newsfeed 885 via A short time ago when I heard about the creation of a new, smaller cabinet for Terminator Salvation (which we still haven’t been able to obtain any photos of) I also
Read More »Taito bringing Darius back to arcades with Darius Burst Another Chronicle(Updated)
Newsfeed 884 via It’s been a little over a week now since we learned that Taito had placed a new countdown webpage on the arcade side of their Japanese site, a countdown which at
Read More »Fighterpalooza: Super Street Fighter IV loctest vids; Street Fighter X Tekken shuns arcades (for now)
Newsfeed 882 & 883 via Plenty of Street Fighter news has come along. First, videos showing Super Street Fighter IV Arcade are online (via Versuscity). Andriasang also has a pic showing some extra character
Read More »Transformers Arcade titles for kids roll out in Japan
(Thanks to AH reader ECM for the tip) We last heard about Sega’s development of kids arcade titles based upon the Transformers Animated license in March and now those games have been made available
Read More »Videos from the Akai Katana (aka Red Sword) location test
(Thanks to ECM for the tip) Interested in seeing CAVE’s new shooter Akai Katana? Then here are some of the first videos of the game in action, as seen recently on location test. I’m
Read More »We Dancing Online making waves in China & Taiwan as IGS preps We Dancing Online 2
Newsfeeds 880 and 881 via It was only in May that we covered We Dancing Online by IGS and we saw that the game had a huge following at GTI 2010. Since then a
Read More »Videos from California Extreme 2010
I usually post videos from CAX every year and now that a week has passed since the event, there are a few to enjoy on Youtube.  
Read More »Konami's "Love Plus Arcade" brings dating sims, creepiness to Japanese arcades
I have never seen a study been published on whether or not dating simulation video games actually improves ones behavior and/or chances with the opposite sex but either way such games have a following
Read More »Playing for charity: Incredible Technologies Golden Tee event for veterans; UK Pinball Party charity event for needy kids
Two charity events for different causes are on the horizon, one in the USA and the other in the UK. To summarize, Incredible Technologies will be holding a charitable event on August 27th-29th in
Read More »One Super Street Fighter IV location test down, at least two more to go
Newsfeed 879 via There really isn’t anything new to report on the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV after it’s most recent location test but at least some in Japan have had a
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