February Trade Shows: NJAA Expo (New Jersey); FEExpo (Italy); DEAL (Dubai)
Though the main arcade trade shows of the first quarter of the year happen with »
LAI Games Begins Shipping Phantom Vanguard In North America
Another arcade exclusive is now available in North America, as Gameloft/IGS/Wahlap’s Phantom Vanguard is now »
New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix
Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing »
Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade1Up, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon
The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
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Kevin Williams visits the Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx arcade art gallery
We recently reported about a new art gallery that opened up in London that used arcade machines as part of the art and now Kevin Williams, editor of The Stinger Report has checkedit out
Read More »Report from Street Fighter IV tournament @ Arcade UFO
At Arcade Heroes, we often say that there’s nothing like standing with another player and competing side by side, and arcade gaming is still the best way to do this. Technology has brought us
Read More »Ground Kontrol announces the 2nd annual Pinbrawl Tournament
Last year an arcade in Portland known as Ground Kontrol hosted a large pinball tournament called Pinbrawl and by all accounts, it was a big success. So with one successful tournament of this caliber
Read More »Titan 4 Games licenses Silhouette for their first gesture-based coin-op game
Via Remember Titan 4 Games? If not, I don’t blame you – we first reported that they were working on gesture-based (think Project Natal) coin-op games last October but since then we have heard
Read More »SNK Opens a virtual NEOGEO museum
Via If you were ever curious as to how the NeoGeo MVS ans AES hardware came to be and what impact they had on the video game industry, then SNK Playmore has a new
Read More »Viral marketing for TRON Legacy continues to give some love to arcades
I’ve always been a big fan of Tron so when it comes to developments of what is going on with the new TRON Legacy movie that comes out in December, I’m intently keeping tabs
Read More »Pac-Man returns to arcades with Pac-Man Battle Royale at Amusement Expo 2010
Ever since Namco first announced Pac-Man CE for Xbox Live Arcade, I thought that the game in particular would be a perfect fit in arcades, which I have mentioned before in posts and to
Read More »SNK Playmore announces King of Fighters XIII along with a preview event date
The King of Fighters series is something that you expect to see a new version of in arcades about every year or so, like Golden Tee. It may not be the most popular fighter
Read More »Dead Storm Pirates gets a trailer
When it came to games at IAAPA, Dead Storm Pirates is one of those games I probably should have spent a little more time playing. Even though the game was essentially a beta it
Read More »New update for Pump In Up, PIU Fiesta
If you are a fan of the Pump It Up series of dancing games then you certainly have something to look forward to. In addition to the release of Pump It Up Pro 2
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