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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Elevator Action Death Parade gets an official site
Taito’s new update of one of their classic properties, Elevator Action: Death Parade isn’t due to hit Japanese arcades until November of this year but they now have a website set up for the
Read More »New arcade releases this week: Nirin and Dance Dance Revolution X
My local distributor tells me that two new games are now shipping out to various distributors and thus will be showing up at different locations around the country within the next few weeks. First
Read More »New Dave and Busters opening in Indiana
The last time we talked about Dave and Busters, earnings were down a little bit for them and we hadn’t heard much about their plans to deal with the economy as it is. This
Read More »Bandai Namco Japan announces Tank! Tank! Tank!
Another Japanese arcade game which has the potential to hit the overseas market due to it’s content has been announced by Bandai Namco Japan and this time it’s a tank combat game of some
Read More »Forums down
Just a quick note here but the forums are down for some reason and I think that they have been for a couple of days. I’m not sure what’s up with them right now
Read More »"Adult arcades" booming in Florida
I’ll apologize in advance for the headline, as when you look into this, it sounds different than what you might think – this has nothing to do with XXX adult arcades, just a type
Read More »Videos from GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2009
Another arcade trade show (GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2009) has come and gone and with it there are plenty of videos to give us a glimpse of what happened. Quite a few interesting games
Read More »Finally, a better look at Battle Stations
Way back during IAAPA last year, one surprise we got was that Smart Industries had picked up a submarine combat game from an Asian developer that they called Battle Stations. from the reports we
Read More »New arcade museum exhibit to open on May 30th in New York (updated)
(thanks to Susan Trien for the corrections) While the idea of a museum exhibit dedicated to arcade history isn’t exactly new, it’s always cool to see one setup. On May 30th, a new exhibit
Read More »Deathsmiles 2 and a slightly different way of revenue sharing in Japan
I have lost track of the times I have brought up costs in the arcade sector since it is an on-going issue. Since I joined Arcade Heroes, some manufacturers have certainly improved in bringing
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