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UK Pinball Party, August 13th-15th

UK Pinball Party, August 13th-15th

HeavyElectricity May 16, 2010 0

If you’re in the UK and you love pinball, it can be a bit of a pain to find machines. I can only think of one in my home town! So, Thor be praised,

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KOF Versus Festival previews King of Fighters XIII

KOF Versus Festival previews King of Fighters XIII

HeavyElectricity May 16, 2010 0

Earlier this month, a large Japanese King of Fighters tournament was held, taking in classics such as KOF2002UM and KOF98. However, the big point of attraction was a special preview tournament for the upcoming

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Kotaku, convenience and laser tag

Kotaku, convenience and laser tag

HeavyElectricity May 16, 2010 7

With the continually growing popularity of home consoles, it’s often easy for the consumer gaming media to marginalise other types of gaming – be they tabletop games for the home or larger experiences, such

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New trailer for GlobalVR's NASCAR Team Racing

New trailer for GlobalVR's NASCAR Team Racing

Shaggy May 15, 2010 2

GlobalVR has updated their website with full details on their updates to both NASCAR and Twisted. We’ve covered those details before but here is a new trailer for the game that GVR posted to

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Disney's 3D Ping Pong as seen at GTI Expo + a few more GTI pics

Disney's 3D Ping Pong as seen at GTI Expo + a few more GTI pics

Shaggy May 15, 2010 0

I know you are possibly sick of hearing about GTI by now but new things are trickling out that are noteworthy enough, so let’s get on with it! Thanks to Joe for the link

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Arcade Heroes Podcast #14 : Arcade shows, game news and more with Kevin Williams

Arcade Heroes Podcast #14 : Arcade shows, game news and more with Kevin Williams

Shaggy May 15, 2010 0

We haven’t forgot about the podcast although I admit to slacking on it lately. It didn’t help that we had to start over on this one due to the program I was using to

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Video: Terminator Salvation Arcade

Video: Terminator Salvation Arcade

Shaggy May 14, 2010 3

Since we have a lot of searches coming in over Terminator I figure I may as well share the videos I took of the game yesterday. As these are the first videos I have

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Pics from the show floor of DEAL 2010

Pics from the show floor of DEAL 2010

Shaggy May 14, 2010 7

Newsfeed 802 via While most of the attention towards expos has been going towards GTI lately, there was another expo that took place recently in Dubai that involved amusement products and that was the

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Website news: Ownership change

Website news: Ownership change

Shaggy May 13, 2010 6

Just a brief piece of news regarding the website here that involves some changes behind the scenes. The ownership of Arcade Heroes has now switched over to me (Shaggy) from the previous owner. I

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The Raiden V game that isn’t Raiden V

The Raiden V game that isn’t Raiden V

Shaggy May 12, 2010 1

I enjoy a good space combat game but they are hard to find these days. Such games used to dominate the arcade scene but they have all but died out in recent years. So

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Super Street Fighter IV arcade listed for sale at the end of August UPDATE: Make that October

Super Street Fighter IV arcade listed for sale at the end of August UPDATE: Make that October

Shaggy May 12, 2010 3

While I had thought that the impending release of Super Street Fighter IV in arcades would be happening in the winter of this year(the always reliable AM-Net lists it as such), importer Coinopexpress.com has

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More details unveiled for the R3Play UK gaming expo

More details unveiled for the R3Play UK gaming expo

Shaggy May 10, 2010 1

News via About a month ago, we discussed a new gaming event that will be coming to Blackpool, UK called R3play. The organization has unveiled further details as to what to expect at the

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