Location Watch January 2026: New Arcades Opening Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, a series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that shares new »
Speed Rider 4DX & Mini World Are Now Available Through Bandai Namco
January is finally coming to a close and with that, we have some game release »
Kaiju Rampage Unite Now Available From LAI Games
We have a new arcade cabinet model release to talk about today, as Kaiju Rampage »
Newsbytes: Atari Relief Pitcher Prototype; New Owners For American Pinball; Ski Hero & More
Welcome to the first Newsbytes of 2026. This is a series of posts here on »
Angry Birds Boom! 2026 Update Is Now Live
Before the IAAPA show last year, it was mentioned that Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix’s »
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Initial sales numbers for Terminator Salvation arcade
Guitar Hero Arcade sold 2000 units in 90 days. Big Buck Hunter Open Season sold 3000 units in 90 days. Silver Strike Live sold over 3000 before it was released due to pre-orders. (Before
Read More »Dave and Busters Ownership Changes hands in $570 million deal; new D&B opens in Roseville, CA
Via One of the more recognized business chains to feature coin-op games is changing hands, as the Oak Hill Capital Partners has announced that they will buy the company for $570 millionUSD. From the
Read More »GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2010 kicks off
Another amusement show is upon us and this time it’s the GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2010, held in Taipei, Taiwan. Almost 100 exhibitors are there to show off their products and over the next
Read More »Warlords spiritually returns with FORCE
I am fortunate to own an Atari Warlords cocktail machine. It was long a “holy grail” of mine as I always enjoyed playing Warlords on the Atari 2600 as a kid and with the
Read More »Gameworks liquidates remaining locations
Yesterday morning I saw a Reuters article that said that Sega Gameworks was closing all of it’s locations and not just the seven we had previously reported about. Thanks to Kevin Williams who contacted
Read More »"Enuain Perfect World" joins the chorus of 2D fighters
While 2D games aren’t impossible to find anymore, they certainly aren’t as common as they used to be. It seems like one genre that happily embraces the old art of using hand-drawn characters is
Read More »Konami unveils new Bemani title Reflec Beat
When checking the AM-Net Blog this morning, they had an announcement regarding a new Konami title that we had not heard about previously called Reflec Beat. I thought that it might be another update
Read More »Challenge Arcade announces "World Record Weekend II" competition this December
If you are a competitive arcade gamer then this announcement should give you plenty of time to prepare for a tournament coming up this December, called World Record Weekend II. The event will be
Read More »Taito opens new flagship arcade in Yokohama Japan
Via Taito has a new six story arcade to check out if you happen to be in Yokohama Japan, and they were happy to start it off with a bang. Company executives showed up
Read More »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
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