Pop-A-Shot Returns To Arcades With The Pop-A-Shot Elite
When I started selling arcade machines back in 2011, I would often get requests for »
Desert Chase & Cannonball Jam Are Now Available From Blue Motion Games
Previously on Arcade Heroes, we mentioned the arrival of a new company to the industry »
New Theater Model For House Of The Dead Scarlet Dawn From Sega Amusements
In our industry, arcade games don’t always get a shot at being sold for much »
exA-Arcadia Updates: Airgallet EXA Label; Daemon Bride exAgain; More
Time for some more news on exA-Arcadia, as they have just held an “exALive” streaming »
Newsbytes: Arcades at MAGFest 2025, Japan Game Updates, Headlines & More
Welcome back to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes covering bite-sized pieces of »
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Caught on video: one of those Chuck E. Cheese fights
It wasn’t long ago where we talked about the violence that had been strangely occurring at some Chuck E. Cheese locations in the US and now one of those fights was caught on camera
Read More »A new KOFXII trailer
KOFXII news continues to flow in, here with a new look at the game that showcases different characters from the roster we saw recently. I would embed the trailer here but it’s from GameTrailers
Read More »More bad news for consumer game mags (with arcade-related thoughts)
The bad news just keeps coming for print magazines in the US, with the end of EGM and the sale of HardCore Gamer Magazine on eBay. Of course this comes about by the fact
Read More »US Army Experience Center brings interactive entertainment to recruiting
The US Army has developed a new center in PA called the Army Experience Center which uses interactive entertainment to provide to visitors a “unique insight into the life of a soldier”, thus modernizing their recruiting
Read More »Is this the future of gaming?
(Click on the image for a full view – should be fixed now) According to the image on the right, which was put together by a “virtual think tank” of professors and game/movie industry
Read More »Article: Game Magazine Schizophrenia Over Arcades
We’ve occasionally documented times and places when game magazines showcase arcade titles as it is a fairly rare occurance but with recent developments in the arcade sector, some publications have suddenly taken some notice
Read More »The Arcade Heroes Pinball Game of the Year Poll
Last year we included pinball games into the main poll about the GOTY but I think it is probably more fair to make a separate poll for pins so they get a little more
Read More »The Annual Arcade Heroes Game of The Year Poll
Last year we did our ‘1st annual GOTY’ poll and we almost forgot it but by throwing it up now, we’ll be in before the lock as they say. The idea is simple –
Read More »Stop…Roster Time!
(Thanks to Phil on the forums for the tip) The roster for the upcoming installment of the King of Fighters XII has been released and for those interested, you can find out all the
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NX Absolute Released in the US
In what is probably going to be the last arcade release of 2008 or the first of 2009 depending on how you look at it, one US distributor site is listing the latest installment
Read More »The ATEI 2009 Arcade Show Timeline
Our friend Kevin Williams at The Stinger Report has created a timeline for the upcoming ATEI 2009 arcade show in London, which includes pictures and videos of games that will be be at the
Read More »A look at Keystone II (with some SFIV in there too)
While the following video we’re going to discuss on 1up.com is billing a Street Fighter IV Pro Player match-up, I am far more interested in the place they are playing it at – Keystone II. We
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