The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025
With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or »
EAG Expo 2025 Preview
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Newsbytes Rhythm Game Special: Maimai DX Testing In Chicago, Bubble Bobble In Music Diver, Headlines & Much More
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Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade
It has been quite a long time since we last reported on a new arcade »
Stern Pinball Unveils Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye
It’s the first week of January, which aside from it being a new year, means »
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Hong Kong based developer Belrare brings SSX Blur and a Super Monkey Ball clone to arcades
While reading the latest Stinger Report newsletter, I came across the news that Taiwan-based developer InJoy Motion Corp. had recently announced two new arcade titles, a mounted gun shooter called Top Gunner and a
Read More »Flynn's Arcade recreated at Comic-Con with a real Space Paranoids cabinet!
As part of the hype machine that Disney is creating for the new TRON: Legacy film, they reconstructed Flynn’s Arcade, with tons of retro coin-op machines and to my own personal excitement, a working
Read More »Article: A New Life For Arcades?
Kevin Williams has penned an extensive and detailed article regarding one of our favorite subjects – the current state of the arcade industry. Weighing in over five pages, he discusses every aspect of what
Read More »Games too Violent for NY Chuck.E.Cheese?
A New York state Chuck.E.Cheese is in danger of losing it’s license for it’s games room after town officials raised concern over the type of games that can be played by youngsters. Council Member
Read More »Another big FEC opens in Indiana – America's Incredible Pizza Co.
I’m not sure what it is about Indiana lately, but it seems to be attracting a lot of entertainment facilities as of late. The newest facilitiy – America’s Incredible Pizza Co. opens today with
Read More »Images from Insert Coin '09
Kevin Williams has sent us a link to a large number of images from the Insert Coin 09 event and by all appearances, it looks like a great success. There are too many to
Read More »Arcade iPhone Love
I recently picked up an iPod touch, mainly so I could play all these cool bite size games I keep hearing about, but also it was about time I upgraded my old iPod. There’s
Read More »Flynn's Arcade Tokens (updated w/ Space Paranoids cab)
As some of you maybe aware there is a sequel on it’s way to the 1982 movie “Tron”. Well it looks like the marketing for the film has now begun with these really neat
Read More »More details on Sega's Border Break
Famitsu has posted more information on the upcoming mech battle game Border Break by Sega and thanks to Aaron Auzins, we have a rundown of what the article discusses. This is one title I
Read More »Hummer Twin now testing outside of Japan @ Brighton Bowlplex
(Thanks for the tip Shane) A few weeks ago we posted about the revelation that Sega will debut a smaller version of their Hummer racing title and the first site to see one of
Read More »Good Press for Insert Coin 09
Insert Coin sounds like it was a big success according to various reports around the internet, and in case you would like to read about what is being said regarding the event, here are
Read More »Looking for some classic games in the Detroit area?
I have never been to Detroit so I don’t know much about the arcades there – it turns out that there are more locations to be found in the area than I thought, according to this article which
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