LAI Games Ships Kaiju Rampage: The World of Monster Eye
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Location Watch February 2025: New Arcades All Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, an occasional series of posts on Arcade Heroes that focus on »
Raw Thrills Unveils Wizard of Oz Videmption Game For Arcades
While licenses are nothing new in the industry, one that has been extremely popular among »
February Trade Shows: IAAPI Expo (India); Rimini Amusement Show, Family Entertainment Expo (Italy)
Next month sees arcade trade show action heat up again in the States with Amusement »
Raw Thrills Reveals Top Gun Maverick For Arcades
Top Gun Maverick is one of the biggest movies to come along in the past »
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Could Elevator Action: Death Parade be getting a release outside of Japan? UPDATE: Yes it will
(Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the tip) While Taito hasn’t held a very strong presence in the arcade scene outside of Japan for the past few years, they still have been out there, getting
Read More »'The Office' goes to the arcade
Because of my schedule, I don’t have a lot of time to watch TV. On top of that there aren’t many shows out there I would go out of my way to watch but
Read More »Transformers rolling out for Japanese arcades this summer
Via Back in January, Sega Japan made an announcement that they would be producing a new arcade title based upon the cartoon favorite Transformers. No details were given about the nature of the game
Read More »Tech Radar takes a look at recent Japanese arcade releases
Via When a mainstream website takes notice of current events surrounding the arcade industry, then it can go one of two ways – they get accurate information from people inside the industry and thus
Read More »Revisiting Subsino’s Kung Fu Ball
When I was at IAAPA last November, I came across a booth that had several head-to-head cocktail cabinets setup there which featured a new game I hadn’t heard of before called Kung Fu Ball.
Read More »King of Fighters XIII unveiled
SNK Playmore had been teasing a preview for the latest KOF for a little while now and today was the day they finally showed the game off in Japan. Fans who missed Mai last
Read More »New pixel art Coin-Op Posters for charity are pretty cool + Pac-Man in Vegas pic
z Thanks to for the news Art and arcades have always gone together in some form and while this story doesn’t have anything to do with sideart, it does have something to do with
Read More »Karaoke store upgrades with an arcade
Seems like there is a little uptick in new location news coming around lately and while I’m not entirely sure why that is, either way it’s always a good thing. It’s certainly better than
Read More »Site news: Adding Distributor links to the site
As I was looking over the site today I realized that we have been lacking something – and that was hyperlinks to coin-op machine distributor websites. Like our other links we have on the
Read More »Music game updates: Guitar Freaks/DrumMania XG released; DJ Max Technika raffle
[Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the info] While I was away at the Amusement Expo a couple of weeks ago, we missed out on some news regarding a couple of Konami titles that were
Read More »An arcade that sells it's own brand of…soda pop?
When it comes to running any business, you always want to find a way to set yourself apart from the others who run a similar business. It makes sense to do so, attracting people
Read More »New Family Entertainment Center opening in Mebane, NC, Z-Bowl
Via Here’s some more news of a new entertainment facility opening up out there, this time in the city of Mebane, NC (North Carolina) called Z-Bowl. While this one isn’t a traditional arcade like
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