Newsbytes: Utah Retro GameXpo 2025; Speed Rider 4DX; Konami Tests New Gashaaaan!; More
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Bandai Namco Announces One Piece Dawn Strike – New Punching Arcade Game
The new arcade games just keep on coming with Bandai Namco, as today they have »
Qualifiers Open For The Wahlap E-Sports Championship 2025
eSports don’t belong just to the realm of PC gaming and Smash Bros – there »
LAI Games Releases Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars To All Arcades
As we run through the dog days of summer, it’s time for another big arcade »
Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes »
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76 "Mom and Pop" Japanese Game Centers
If you enjoy checking out the many arcades that are out there(or have been in the past), this may be of interest. Oga from Japan pointed us to a site that covers information on
Read More »Play-On – arcade development system from Italy (w/ new arcade games)
The latest Stinger Report (Issue #618) finishes up coverage on ATEI from last month and with it plenty of great information, including news of a relatively new developer from Italy that has created a
Read More »Sega Europe launches Primeval Hunt Mini-Site
(Click on the image to enlarge) For anyone familiar with the Sega Amusements Europe site, you know that the site features a number of ‘mimi-sites’ that cover their current line-up of games with some
Read More »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
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