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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Spice up your Apple iPad with the new iCade from ThinkGeek
When a new gadget comes out that everyone has to have, that gadget only becomes cool when there is a way to turn it into a real arcade game. Such is the case with
Read More »Who is up for an Arcana Heart Vs. Blazblue game?
While Vs. Fighting games which bring two different licenses or fighters together are nothing new in the arcade industry, when a new one happens it usually causes a stir of excitement simply because it
Read More »Stern says Ironman pinball available now UPDATED
This caught me completely by surprise – according to a press release that was just sent out by Stern Pinball, Ironman pinball is now available for purchase. I am surprised by this as I
Read More »Action buttons – a classic arcade tribute sculpture
Via When you think of sculptures, the likely thought to enter the mind is something carved out of stone. But that doesn’t always have to be the case, as we see here with this
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King of Fighters XIII official site updated detailing characters, story, moves and more
(Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the info) In case you are eagerly anticipating the arrival of SNK’s next installment of the King of Fighters series then you’ll be happy to know that the official
Read More »The arcade presence at PAX East
Via When it comes to indie game development, one annual show certainly tops the rest in bringing the spotlight onto such games and that is the Penny Arcade Expo or PAX for short. The
Read More »Gameworks restructuring plan means seven locations will close, some may reopen in the future
Via It’s never a good day when we have to report about arcade locations closing – we always prefer times like last week where we reported on several new places opening around the US.
Read More »Could Elevator Action: Death Parade be getting a release outside of Japan? UPDATE: Yes it will
(Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the tip) While Taito hasn’t held a very strong presence in the arcade scene outside of Japan for the past few years, they still have been out there, getting
Read More »'The Office' goes to the arcade
Because of my schedule, I don’t have a lot of time to watch TV. On top of that there aren’t many shows out there I would go out of my way to watch but
Read More »Transformers rolling out for Japanese arcades this summer
Via Back in January, Sega Japan made an announcement that they would be producing a new arcade title based upon the cartoon favorite Transformers. No details were given about the nature of the game
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