Location Watch October 2025: New Arcades Open Their Doors Worldwide
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Introducing Arcade Heroes’ Arcade Hall Of Fame
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DSM Arcade To Launch Perfect Pour: Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition At IAAPA 2025
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Raw Thrills To Debut Jackpot Racer, Godzilla Kaiju Wars Deluxe & More At IAAPA 2025
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exA-Arcadia Ships Vanguard Princess R; Opens Pre-Orders For Chaos Code: Nemesis Experiment
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H2Overdrive Motion version now testing at a Gameworks in Illinois
(Thanks for the tip Sam!) Amongst the surprises at IAAPA this year was the revelation that Namco was teaming up with Tsunami and Universal Space to produce a motion based version of Specular Interactive’s
Read More »An arcade themed after the backstreets of China
Like arcade cabinets themselves, sometimes the arcades where you play the games can be a work of art too. Take this Japanese arcade in Kawasaki which features eight stories of arcade goodness for those
Read More »The Atari flight yoke controller returns
One of those things that I hate to admit is that I have never had the pleasure of playing the original Atari Star Wars on the original hardware. Only once did I ever come
Read More »The making of a homebrew pinball machine + new iPhone pinball app
While homebrew video games are a dime a dozen these days, homebrew pinball machines are quite rare as there are more people out there willing to make their own video game than their own
Read More »Remember the polls! 1 week left to vote!
This is just a friendly reminder to vote in our Game of the Year and Decade polls for your pick of the arcade titles that left the best impression upon you. The polls this
Read More »Arcana Heart 3, Tetris Dekaris(Giant Tetris) released in Japan; Tetris at D&B in Illinois
Arcana Heart fans can rejoice as today Examu released the latest version of AH to arcades in Japan, Arcana Heart 3. The game features new characters, new arcana (elemental alignments that determine special moves
Read More »ASCAP looking for licensing fees from an arcade operator for Guitar Hero Arcade
Here’s a little bit of a strange news story – nine months after Raw Thrills’/Activision/Konami released Guitar Hero Arcade, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (or ASCAP for short – good thing
Read More »Namco's Dead Storm Pirates now testing in Illinois
(Thanks to Sam for the tip!) If you didn’t have the chance to make it to IAAPA to check out games like Namco’s Dead Storm Pirates and you live anywhere near Addison, IL then
Read More »An Arcade Heroes Persona for Firefox
If you’re a Firefox user, this might be of interest to you, otherwise, nothing to see here! I have designed a simple “Persona” for Arcade Heroes that can be used in Firefox browsers. You
Read More »Missing in Action: On the defense (tower defense and otherwise)
It has been a while since I last wrote a “Missing In Action” article, where I cover a style of game that at one point in history was popular or common to find in
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