Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)
While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean that nothing »
Sega Amusements & 501 Entertainment Bring Interactive Mini Golf To Market
A few years ago, Sega Amusements broadened their horizons into social entertainment by partnering with »
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 »
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More info on Namco/Gamewax's Go Go Grand Prix
(Thanks for the info Sam!) Kevin Williams and I discussed the new “digital toy hybrid racer” Go Go Grand Prix in the latest podcast and now Namco has issued a press release discussing the
Read More »ICE's Standard version of Panic Museum
Via At IAAPA I had a chance to play Taito’s huge, theater style light-gun game, Panic Museum. The setup is impressive, with a large projected screen and theater quality sound, but obviously this does
Read More »Heat activated arcade mugs
You know it’s always a little slow when we start posting arcade-related merchandise for posts. So here we go: I think of these as psuedo-arcade mugs as these don’t use licensed content – just
Read More »Capcom posting profits, Namco losses; where do their arcade divisions stand?
It’s that time where we start to receive news about different public companies and their profit or loss over a certain period of time. These glimpes generally mention the arcade division of said companies
Read More »Arcade Heroes Podcast #12 – New games at EAG and more
Here’s our 12th podcast – I know I haven’t been keeping up with these on a weekly basis as I had wanted to originally but we’re still getting them done when there is enough
Read More »Tekken 6 clone cabinet emerges from China
Have you ever played Tekken 6 in an arcade? I have, and my experience taught me two things: firstly my friend is better with the capoeira characters than me, and secondly the cabinet is
Read More »Golden Tee Connect integrates with Facebook
Golden Tee is one of those games that is everywhere, with roughly 10,000 machines in operation worldwide ensuring that it remains a constant feature of the arcade scene. If you’re one of those who
Read More »Check out these Atari glasses
Most of the news regarding Atari over the past few years has been negative – of the company barely holding on, churning through CEO’s at an alarming pace and not releasing many games that
Read More »See EAG in 3D!
I must have missed the announcement that Youtube has special options for 3D videos now, but here’s some evidence of that. It’s a small tour of EAG 2010 in glorious 3D, and according to
Read More »Sega announces Hummer Standard availability
We don’t normally see press releases come along on a Sunday but sometimes, they just happen. Sega Amusements USA has announced the availability of HUMMER Standard edition, which was seen at both IAAPA and
Read More »EAG 2010: Show report
It’s funny how some memories stick, isn’t it? I had only been to the ExCel Centre in London once before dropping in at the EAG show on Wednesday, for the consumer gaming event GameStars
Read More »The Big Buck Hunter Pro Pinball promotional video
(Thanks for the tip igo!) Stern is living up to the promise of improving the marketing behind new pinball machines, as we see here with a new promotional video for Big Buck Hunter Pro
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