Newsbytes: Arcades at MAGFest 2025, Japan Game Updates, Headlines & More
Welcome back to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes covering bite-sized pieces of »
Bandai Namco Reveals Wangan Midnight Speed Ignition
For several years now, one of the most heavily-rumored arcade games out there has been »
Sega’s Maimai DX Is Headed To Amusement Expo 2025
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! It’s now February, which means that we’re a »
Location Watch Japan Special: A Look At Aeon Mall Arcades (Molly Fantasy, Feedy Diner & Arcade)
Welcome to a different kind of Location Watch from what Arcade Heroes has done previously! »
Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan
A few weeks ago, mention was made in a Newsbytes of a mysterious new Bandai »
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Battle Lines – Arcade Street Fighter IV Rocks GDC!
From Kevin Williams comes this look at trends in the game console industry and certain issues they are facing there and a resurgence in interest in arcades thanks to Street Fighter IV. It also
Read More »Last week on Arcade Heroes
Heres a quick roundup of last weeks stories. Obviously there has been a lot going on with AOU. But that’s not all that’s been popular on the site. We had a couple of interesting pieces
Read More »What other arcade website do you visit?
Now this is not me just being nosey. The reason I want to know what other arcade websites you visit is to add some more websites to our blogroll. Why would I want to do
Read More »Our Japanese Arcade Friend
We received an email the other day from a fan of ours who comes all the way from Japan. He sent us a few links to some strange looking arcade games as well as
Read More »Location Review – Galaxy World, Sydney
(More picture after the break) The second arcade I visited whilst I was in Australia, which was called Galaxy World, had a great selection of games. The most exciting for me had to be
Read More »Fighter poll results: King of Fighters XII or Street Fighter IV?
A few days ago I posted a poll via Survey Monkey asking a few questions about your thoughts on all of the new fighters coming out of Japan and I have to admit that
Read More »Street Fighter IV "definently" coming to US arcades
This is the kind of news that makes me happy. While I have speculated that SFIV would come to arcades in the US since the game was being developed by Capcom USA, it was
Read More »A look at arcade ports on retro consoles today
Ever since Atari released Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 console, arcade ports have been something of a standard in the console industry. It becomes something of a conundrum however as console releases have
Read More »International Play Company to open several new FECs
North America is soon going to see a number of new FEC (Family Entertainment Centers which almost always include arcades) open up under the company named International Play Company (also known as IPlayco). The
Read More »GDC Gamespot Street Fighter IV Videos
Just came across these videos on YouTube by Gamespot (something tells me they would like the fact they are on YouTube) Each one is a nice little run through of each character, thier moves and their specials.
Read More »AOU attendance rises by 10,000
Final attendance numbers for the recent AOU show have been posted over at Arcade Renaissance, showing a large increase over 2007’s figures. The overall attendance for the two days was 38,442 – up 10,529
Read More »Arcade Attack – Pinball Character vs. Space Invaders
The things I find on YouTube get weirder and weirder. It starts off as a documentary about pinball machines and the rise of the video game. Especially focused on the game ‘Defender’. A rockabilly
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