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Newsbytes: ARE Expo, exA-Arcadia Updates, Sonic Wings Reunion & More
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Delta32 – new generic cabinet out of Japan (AOU 2008)
Among the many new things we’ll be seeing out of Japan over the next few days, here is a new generic cabinet that is making it’s debut. Arcade cabinets in Japan have their own
Read More »Arcade Exhibit to run in Arizona later this year
If you live in Arizona (particularly in a city called Chandler) and spent some time playing classic arcade and home console games of the 70’s and 80’s, then a historian Jean Reynolds is looking
Read More »More positive arcade coverage
Today I have come across two positive arcade articles, one from Forbes magazine and the other from a blog discussing the state of arcades in the Philippines. The Forbes article focuses primarily on the
Read More »Missing in Action: Puzzle Games
Missing in Action is an editorial mini-series we are running discussing genres that have all but disappeared in today’s arcade releases, taking a backseat to light-gun shooters or racers. We do not think that
Read More »Street Fighter IV Hi-Res Picture Overload
Just checks out these latest Hi-Res pictures of Street Fighter IV and I dare you not to drawl! I have to saw the more and more I see of this game, the more and
Read More »The Cool Hunters Space Invader Hoodies (and Arcade Table)
At a site called “The Cool Hunters”, they have a retro arcade cocktail cabinet for sale that comes loaded with a number of classics on it that seems to fit the typical MAME fare.
Read More »Space Invader snow sculpture
Could this be the beginning of a new epidemic of videogame related sculptures. Remember the wave of pumpkin sculptures? [via Kotuku] Kotaku reader Ryan attended the Sapporo Snow Festival last week in Hokkaido, Japan. He
Read More »What have we been playing….
As from now I’ll be trying to work my way through my pile of shame. For any of you who aren’t familiar with this term, basically it’s all the awesome games I’ve bought (over
Read More »Konami's Action Cop cabinet on location test
(Click on the image above to enlarge) Thanks to the Stinger Report we have a first look at the cabinet Konami’s new motion-based controller arcade title Action Cop ‘in the wild’. It is currently
Read More »Happy Belated Birthday Nolan Bushnell
I feel bad for missing this the other day but on February 5th the founder of our industry (practically the entire video game industry – yeah I know aobut Ralph Baer but Nolan is
Read More »Play Mechanix hiring for help on "online tournament system"
Play Mechanix, developer of popular arcade titles such as Big Buck Hunter, Aliens: Extermination, and Deal or No Deal has updated their website with two new positions they are looking to fill, specifically for
Read More »Galactic Front – Freeware coin-op arcade game
I came across this on Youtube and have to say that it’s cool to see someone making a new game themselves that’s intended to go into an arcade cabinet as this game is, if
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