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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1 million hits reached!
We have finally reached that one important milestone that everyone who runs a site hopes to hit at one point – 1 million hits. Now I won’t kid myself – I understand that there
Read More »PUTT Championship Edition gets an update; a little more on Galactix
I saw PUTT Championship Edition at Betson’s IAAPA booth but what I didn’t realize at the time was that they were showcasing an updated version of the game there. Thanks to a press release
Read More »H2Overdrive headed to SpikeTV's Video Game Awards; Specular website update + more
Raw Thrills’/Specular Interactive’s H2Overdrive is making headlines again, first with news that Universal Space (UNIS) will be exclusively carrying the game in China. I know that the game has been seen in Japan already
Read More »Panel discussion with ex-Atari alumni at California Extreme 09
One thing I don’t think that I will ever tire of is getting into the history of the game industry, particularly that involving the arcade side of things. On one side I think it’s
Read More »BlazBlue: Continuum Shift landing in some US arcades
There are plenty of fighters to choose from these days and one fighter that has been turning heads all year long is BlazBlue. Released to arcades last year, the game soon saw a console
Read More »The Arcade Heroes Game of the Decade poll
As we are seeing a close to the decade, it’s only logical that we see what people think was the best game of the decade. I have compiled a list of games that are
Read More »Bones takes on the King of Kong
I have never really watched the Fox TV show “Bones” but here is one episode I would probably check out as naturally, it deals with arcades and the rivalries that can happen with them.
Read More »Changes come to Stern Pinball as a new investor develops a new plan for the company
We all know that Stern Pinball is the only manufacturer of new pinball games on the market but a question for everyone for sometime now is where is the company headed? To be honest,
Read More »An investor report from Sega Sammy
Whether you are an investor in companies like Sega or not, sometimes the reports they put together for said investors are interesting to look at anyways. In a report just release by Sega Sammy
Read More »The Arcade Heroes Pinball Game of the Year 2009 poll
In conjunction with our coin-op video arcade GOTY poll, we also like to see how people are feeling about pinball games. Obviously the number of games is far lower than the coin-op poll but
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