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Street Fighter IV invades London Arcades
I finally got a chance to play SFIV the other day as my brother had purchased it for the Xbox 360. It was fun, especially when I beat Seth with Blanka on Hardest after
Read More »The 10th Annual Turning Stone Expo coming up
Betson has announced a schedule of events for the 10th annual Turning Stone Expo which is going to be held April 17th & 18th at the Turning Stone Casion/Resort in Syracuse, NY. While I
Read More »Japanese arcades to test new e-payment system
JAMMA (also known as the Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association) announced today that testing will begin on April 1st, 2009 for the use of a universal cashless e-payment system. The test will last for
Read More »There's always a good reason to keep the classics around
Not many arcades have some of the good old classics on-site anymore but for those who do, there is one great advantage that comes out of it – those games easily attract older players
Read More »More boat racing coming to arcades with Aquarace; also a video of Sega’s Storm-G
It looks like H2Overdrive won’t be alone for long when it comes to frantic boat racing – Korean game maker Simuline has their own boat racing title ready to go called Aquarace, which from
Read More »Taito To Bring FPS To Arcades Again
Back in 2006 Taito brought out an arcade version of the legendary game Half Life 2. This game was fairly unique as it retained the FPS sytle game play of Valve’s flagship title. This
Read More »Design-A-Hole is back
The popular Design-A-Hole competition run by Incredible Technologies last year to coincide with thier 20th anniversary is back after popular demand. What was supposed to be a one off last year is returning and
Read More »Mutliple Gaming Goodies!
Here a few bits of gaming gear that I spotted this week which we can all add to our list of “Definitely going to buy one of those, but never do”. Click on the thumbs
Read More »Robo-Basho gets an upgrade, now testing in the Chicago area
In lieu of the robotic arcade goodness I posted about the other day, I am happy to receive a tip about one of the games I mentioned in that post, Robo-Basho(tm), has been upgraded
Read More »IRRobot's MaruBot Football League
One development that I have always kept an eye out for in the coin-op arcade sector is the creation of new kinds of experiences that are extremely difficult to reproduce at home and aren’t
Read More »Jeuxactu.com interviews KOFXII producer Maasaki Kukinko
A lot of people are excited about SNK’s upcoming King Of Fighters XII. I am one of them although I do admit that my enthusiasm for the game has been dampered a little bit by the
Read More »Taito's Space Invaders 30th Anniversary Celebration to end with a bang
I received this a couple of days ago but as it was all in Japanese in a form that the online translator could not do anything with it (I have noticed many Japanese sites
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