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
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Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
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The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
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The Guitar Hero arcade CA Extreme 2009 Championship
California Extreme has come and gone once again but with it are some lucky players who participated in some of the competitions that were held at the big event. One of those tournaments was
Read More »DDRX cabinets not all they are cracked up to be?
Konami’s most recent arcade release, DDRX is available for purchase and can be found at a number of locations around the US and Europe but how has the game held up to both fan
Read More »Virtusphere – a good improvement in VR technology
One of the many things that was a downside to player involvement in VR gaming was the fact that other applications generally kept the player in one spot and you would have to use
Read More »KOF 2002 Unlimited Match released in Japan
In May we reported that King of Fighters 2002 was going to get it’s own upgrade similar to what SNK did for KOF98 last year and the day has already arrived where the game
Read More »With all versions of SFIV out, which is the most secure for tournaments?
While the headline is basically a rhetorical question since we all know the answer, the question is being raised with Capcom’s console division now that the PC and even Xbox 360 versions of the
Read More »New FEC opens in Jordan – Jingo's Jungle
We don’t get a lot of arcade news coming out of the Middle East – most of what we do get comes from Dubai. But now a new developer is opening an FEC in
Read More »An interview with Galloping Ghost
AH contributor Aaron Auzins has done an interview with Galloping Ghost Productions (makers of the new arcade fighter Dark Presence), and has been kind enough to pass it along to us. It gets into
Read More »Geometry Wars home arcade cab for sale on ebay
If you own an Xbox 360 then chances are you have heard of Geometry Wars. GW is based upon a couple of classic arcade titles, like Tempest and Robotron 2084 and graphically pulls some
Read More »ArtCade – new magazine uses an arcade cabinet to show off their 1st issue
Starting a new magazine and need a way to capture people’s attention? Why not try using an arcade cabinet with a specialized interface to get the word out? That seems to be the idea
Read More »Yoshihisa Hashimoto leaves Sega for Square Enix
The man who was the director of Sonic Unleashed and the main brain behind the Hedgehog Engine has left Sonic Team (which had been known as AM8 at one point where they created arcade
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