February Trade Shows: NJAA Expo (New Jersey); FEExpo (Italy); DEAL (Dubai)
Though the main arcade trade shows of the first quarter of the year happen with »
LAI Games Begins Shipping Phantom Vanguard In North America
Another arcade exclusive is now available in North America, as Gameloft/IGS/Wahlap’s Phantom Vanguard is now »
New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix
Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing »
Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade1Up, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon
The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
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Play Mechanix announces the Big Buck World Championship 2011
The annual tournament for the Big Buck series has been announced and when it comes to prizes and players, this year’s tournament will be the biggest one yet. 64 players will compete in the
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From the makers of H2Overdrive comes Dirty Drivin’
First they gave us a spiritual successor to Hydro Thunder and now Specular Interactive and Raw Thrills are testing out a new racing title that leans in the Offroad Thunder direction(or as the person
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Taito begins selling BlazBlue Continuum Shift II globally
Taito just announced a couple of hours ago that they are now selling the AkSys Games BlazBlue Continuum Shift II arcade boards globally. The exact tweet goes as follows: TAITO has begun global sales
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PowerPutt LIVE 2012 coming next Spring
We haven’t had many new game announcements to discuss recently, even though a number of games are in-development as we speak. Most of the time announcements are made a short time before the game
Read More »Classic Game Room tackles classic arcade games
(Thanks to IGO for the tip) The Classic Game Room is a large series of video reviews found on Youtube where these guys review games for any game system they can get their hands-on.
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Welcome to the Monday Morning Open Thread
We haven’t really done an ‘Open Thread’ before, where you talk about pretty much anything in the comments (still prefer arcade/pinball discussion) but today I feel like starting one, along with some various pieces
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Knights of Valour 3 in action @ GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2011
Just a short time ago we found out about IGS’s new 2D beat ’em up, Knights of Valour 3. IGS published a teaser site for the game and left it at that. Fortunately, a
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Checking out Terminator Salvation’s new “Expert Mode”
One aspect of modern gaming that we have all become used to is the game update. We have come to expect them these days as issues are discovered in games and improvements are made,
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Chuck E. Cheese’s being sued for use of redemption games
A San Diego real estate agent has decided that because she feels that the redemption games her kids played at a local Chuck E. Cheese (after several visits to the location mind you) didn’t
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Digital Out-Of-Home Interactive Entertainment Conference coming to London, July 14th
A new conference that focuses on digital out-of-home entertainment (a fancier way of saying what we do in the amusement industry) is coming to London this July, where trade experts and professionals will gather
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