Newsbytes: Golden Tee 2026; Genda Americas; Rhythm Game Updates & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that collects various recent »
Bandai Namco Officially Announces Penlalive – New Arcade Rhythm Game
Back in late January, one of the first surprise location tests of the year to »
IAAPA Expo Europe 2025 Round-Up: New Arcade Games In Europe
Welcome to our coverage of IAAPA Expo Europe 2025, which was held in Barcelona, Spain »
New On Test: Super Punch Mania (Konami), Putt It! Par-Tee (Sega Amusements)
As the trade show season heats up, it’s not unusual for more and more new »
Bandai Namco Officially Announces Biohazard RE:2 Arcade/Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot – Testing This Winter In The US
This Summer, one of the biggest pieces of arcade news to emerge was the surprise »
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Namco shows off Gundam Extreme Versus (UPDATED)
(Thanks to ECM for the tip) At AOU 2010 Namco Bandai said that they were working on a new Gundan arcade title, called Gundam Extreme VS. At the time they didn’t reveal many details
Read More »Catching up with new games from China: Dogfight Moto, tropical Ocean 3, Bloody Taierzhuang
Today I decided to do a little research on some companies that generally go under our radar, not because we have no interest in covering the games they produce but because they aren’t very
Read More »DJ Max Technika 2 location tests in South Korea
Pentavision’s DJ Max Technika 2 was recently seen on a location test in South Korea and a couple of sites (Bemanistyle.com and Ruliweb.com) have the rundown on what the sequel will bring to the
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Exclusive: The last coin-op project at Midway Chicago, RIP SQUAD: Raids Against the Reich
Back in 2001, Midway made a decision to dump their long standing coin-op division in favor of focusing developments on console gaming. When that decision came down, there were still some arcade games floating
Read More »Konami rolling out new arcade payment system in Japan: Paseli
How do you prefer to pay for your arcade experience? Coins? Magnetic strip cards? RFID tags or some other e-money service? We ran a poll on this long ago and while we didn’t get
Read More »Blast from the past: When Arcades used to make more money than movies did
Remember the golden age of games when arcades alone used to make money hand over fist, making about three times more money in a year than movies did? Good times. Take a trip down
Read More »GlobalVR releases NASCAR Team Racing kit, cabinet versions soon to follow
First revealed to us at IAAPA, and later seen at Amusement Expo 2010, GlobalVR has released their latest update to their arcade exclusive NASCAR Racing title called NASCAR Team Racing. If you missed out
Read More »Weekend videos: Atari' Hercules Pinball and Taito's Ice Cold Beer
What do you do when there’s not much news to discuss? Find some videos showcasing the stranger or cooler products found in arcade days past. here are two videos from TNT Amusements, who has
Read More »Kansas declares coin pusher redemption games as "illegal gambling devices" while state brings casinos in
(thanks for the tip Dasbacon) And now for a great “WTH?” moment to start our week off. Arcades such as Dave & Busters and others who operate coin-pushing machines in the US state of
Read More »Konami's Road Fighters goes 3D (updated)
Remember Konami’s Road Fighters? Since we first heard about the game last September, there has been little to no information popping up about the game, until today where an anonomyous tipster sent us a
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