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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New Dragonball Z arcade game + Chinatown Fair Arcade in the NYT
Newsfeed 963 via We’ve got two different stories to cover here with this Stinger newsfeed, first we’ll start off with a new game that was unveiled in Japan by Namco called Dragonball Zenkai Battle
Read More »Arcade Heroes Podcast – IAAPA edition
(Pic via Fillmore Games) It has been a while since we did a podcast – I know it doesn’t help our cause to lack consistency in producing these but at least we get something
Read More »Some Darius Burst Arcade news
There is an important date coming up for some of us arcade nerds – December 17th. On that day two things are happening: first TRON Legacy will be released to theaters and second, Taito
Read More »Who plays at the arcade in Japan and why? (UPDATED)
(UPDATED: thanks to one of our readers who translated a couple of the charts for us into English, they are posted below). Market data for the amusement industry is sometimes hard to come by,
Read More »Sega jumping into the Chinese amusement market in 2011
Newsfeed 961 via As 2010 has unfolded before our very eyes, there is one trend in the worldwide amusement industry that we have seen gaining traction and that would be the development of new
Read More »Brief glimpse at Dark Presence in new video
The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL has continued to make waves – from having several world records set at the location, to creating a cool Achievements system, to reaching over 1,000 Facebook fans
Read More »Big Buck World released
We’ve known about it for a few months already but the latest installment to the popular Big Buck Hunter franchise, Big Buck World is now shipping according to BMI Gaming. That means that within
Read More »IAAPA pics, Round 3
(Thanks to Joe J. for the tip) This was the second time I’ve attended IAAPA and both times I have noticed something – each time I have walked away with a nagging feeling that
Read More »Taito’s Fall Product show (UPDATED)
Taito just held an event to show off some of their new products that they are bringing to the market in Japan and there are a few items worth mentioning here. Unfortunately the pictures
Read More »On this day of thanks…
Thanksgiving might be a US holiday and while we get both visitors and stories from all over the world, I see no problem in expressing some gratitude today before going out and having a
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