April Trade Shows: GTI Southeast Asia (Malaysia); ARE (UK); TAGE Expo (Taiwan)
In the recent past, April hasn’t always been home to many (if any) amusement trade »
SNK Announces The King Of Fighters ’98 Is Returning To Arcades Via exA-Arcadia
SNK has been busy as of late, announcing a new Metal Slug and the AES+ »
Sega Tests New Sonic The Hedgehog Coin Pusher “Sonic Balloon Carnival” With Round1USA
This year marks the 35th birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog, with Sega just beginning to »
Incredible Technologies Aims For A 300 With Silver Strike: League Night
Sixteen years since they released Silver Strike Live, Incredible Technologies has followed up with their »
Newsbytes: Stranger Things Arcade Hits Dave & Buster’s, StepManiaX In Japan, Wild Gunman Restored & More
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Namco holding a show in Singapore March 2nd & 3rd
(Thanks to Kieranmay for the tip) Namco has announced a private show in Singapore where they will be showing off their latest product lines for overseas customers. This will include titles we know about
Read More »Oh boy: Woman sues Chuck E. Cheese for getting hit by a stray air hockey puck
Via The other day I came across an article about some people who got into a fight at Chuck E. Cheese again, this time over a dispute at a vending machine. I decided not
Read More »AOU 2010 round-up for today, with videos!
Via Here’s a rundown of the AOU 2010 news and information for today, complete with videos. Metal Gear Arcade in action. The videos below by Gigazine show how the glasses work. The new Melty
Read More »AOU 2010 news – Metal Gear Arcade trailer, new VF5 and more
News is starting to pour out of AOU 2010 in Japan and here’s a quick rundown of what we’re getting. First, Konami has shown a trailer for Metal Gear Arcade, along with new screen
Read More »Taito's new 4 player shooter – Gaia Attack 4 + Hopping Road for kids
(Image above via AM-Net) Links below thanks to AOU is just starting and with that comes a little bit of news related to things we hadn’t heard about prior to today. First off, Taito
Read More »Terminator Salvation now sampling; H2Overdrive sees first player to reach Fleet Admiral rank
Here’s some news out of the Raw Thrills’ camp today, with two press releases on two separate products. First off Terminator Salvation will be shipping out in limited quantities to certain locations with the
Read More »Sega opens flagship arcade in Akihabara
Ah, Akihabara. How I have longed to visit this mythical location, in order to peer into the heart of Japanese arcade gaming (well, also to stage an homage to Densha Otoko, but that’s another
Read More »Metal Gear Arcade will be at AOU 2010
Via We have been wondering what happened to Konami’s Metal Gear Arcade – it turned heads when it was announced at the console game heavy E3 last year but after that the game suddenly
Read More »Coney Island revival project begins this summer
Via I have never been to Coney Island in New York, but I have always heard about this historic amusement park through various media sources. It used to be the largest amusement park area
Read More »More shooters from China – 'Four Guns' and 'Terrorist Action'
Via You have probably noticed that we are having an influx of news from Chinese, Tawainese and Korean coin-op firms lately and I am told that there is a reason behind the build-up although
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