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City thinks taxing arcades is good idea for their local economy
Kotaku ran a story today discussing a small shop in Hampshire Illinois called Name Your Game where they sold items like clothes and candy and they had a small collection of arcades there which brought in
Read More »Another radio interview for Will Brierly, maker of Get Outta My Face!
Will Brierly, author of the new independent arcade title Get Outta My Face is still making the rounds in getting the word out about the game, via online radio shows. Unfortunately I didn’t find
Read More »Addendum to the ATEI non-trade media policy
We’ve been asked to pass this along as a follow-up to a previous post: “Following some unusual comments regarding attendance to this month’s Amusement Trade Exhibition International (ATEI) in London, we would like to
Read More »A good Pat Lawlor (pinball designer) Interview
Pat Lawlor has been interviewed by Gamasutra and it’s a pretty good interview where he discusses the modern pinball market along with some talk on his old pins like The Addams Family, Funhouse, Family
Read More »A look back at professional gaming and how it got it's start in arcades
The Kansas City News has posted a fairly long and fascinating article about professional gaming and it deals mostly with Twin Galaxies and how the professional gaming circuit initially got it’s start back in
Read More »New products from Betson includes Big Buck Safari Deluxe
Betson Enterprises has sent us along some information on some new products they are now carrying and from the three games listed, they include Big Buck Safari Deluxe, which we saw as early as
Read More »A look at arcade cabinets by Fun Company
When I was looking at some of the pictures we were sent from IAAPA, I noticed that some of the IT cabinets followed a different design than the ‘official pedestal’ cabinet followed. I liked
Read More »Arc System Works interview (with talk about BlazBlue, Battle Fantasia, Guilty Gear, SFIV and more)
In case you are a junkie for 2D fighters then Gamasutra has got the interview for you. They sat down and talked with four guys at Arc System Works in Japan, Daisuke Ishiwatari (Guilty
Read More »Golden Tee joins the US Navy
Here is some interesting and good news out of Incredible Technologies. They have supplied a Golden Tee 2009 game to the USS John C. Stennis, a Nimitz-class nuclear powered US Navy supercarrier. I’ve know
Read More »ATEI 09 News – Registration changes for Consumer Media
Listen up those of you who are planning on attending ATEI in a couple of weeks. With high interest in the event, the organizers have put a trade-only policy into effect. They also have
Read More »Pre-ATEI buzz – Tekken 6 rumors and BlazBlue tested in Europe
In a build up to ATEI within the next few weeks, Europe has seen a location test of the new fighting game BlazBlue (pictured above), with a big turn-out of players only hampered by
Read More »Stop Fighter 2
Stop motion animation is a real pain in the butt to pull off. I guess that is why so many of these kind of films are done with simple things like Legos. The following
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