Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
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LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
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Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
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Konami Releases Contra Burst To Round1USA
Late last year, word spread around in arcade circles about a brand new Contra video »
Alan-1 Launches Soda Slam!
Alan-1 has announced that they have begun shipping their third title, the enhanced version of »
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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
Read More »Namco's Razing Storm released to arcades around the world
Namco has announced that their new title Razing Storm (which we have talked about quite a bit already and I recently got some hands-on time with the game at ASI) is now in full
Read More »Indie arcade game Get Outta My Face at SXSW
We reported about the new indie arcade game Get Outta My Face making an appearance at the tech show known as SXSW in Texas a couple of weeks ago and now we have some
Read More »More ASI goodness: Pictures from The Stinger Report
We are not done with our ASI coverage just yet – in addition to this post I still have more videos to upload but I am currently waiting on receiving those from my friend
Read More »Arc System Works wants you to go dragon hunting (in Japan)
Another cool terminal game is hitting the arcades in Japan, this time it is Dragon Hunter by Arc System Works (same company that brought us BlazBlue). This title is not a fighter but a
Read More »Konami already testing a sequel/update to uBeat
One game I had hoped to see at ASI was Konami’s uBeat. There had been a US location test but since then we have heard pretty much nothing about the game here. Sadly, we
Read More »And you thought you had seen everything when it came to claw machines…
AH friend Kevin Williams is on the road but still is sending us newsfeeds (sorry I missed you at ASI BTW), this time of the strangest crane machine I have seen yet. I will
Read More »Rumor: Terminator Salvation coming to arcades later this year
Hey, hey, it’s rumor time again, this time it’s about another Bale-Out! Just kidding, although the rumored game will have something to do Christian Bale in a sense. As you might know, one big
Read More »Videos from ASI 2009: H2Overdrive, DDRX, R-Tuned, Harley Davidson & more
Here are some videos I took at ASI 2009 last week – it’s not everything I took so expect more within a few days or so, including Justice League, DJ Max Technika, the new
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