Taiko No Tatsujin USA Version Release Details
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The Day Before The Storm – IAAPA 2024 Day 0
The educational day of IAAPA 2024 has come and gone, which means that tomorrow the »
Japan Amusement Expo 2024: The Full Recap
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IAAPA 2024 – The Preview Of Previews
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DOF Robotics To Introduce Angry Birds: Fury Road Arcade Racer At IAAPA 2024
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Newsbytes: Limitless VR; Surfin Surfari; Sega Japan Game Updates & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of quick news items from around the amusement world. There’s a good chance we’ll have more ‘big’ stories coming up as we get closer to IAAPA, so stay tuned!
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American Pinball Announces Legends of Valhalla
I was about to put this into a Newsbytes, but it really deserves a post of its own, so here we go. I saw a tweet about this earlier today from Buffalo Pinball but
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Kevin Williams Reports On The 2021 Autumn Coin-Op Show
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams returns from the UK’s last major amusement event of the season – and reveals details on some new amusement
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Stern Pinball Opens Insider Connected Kit Orders
Stern Pinball issued a press release to announce the availability of their Insider Connected kits today, marking the official launch of the system for arcades to grab. They had already launched the app so
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IAAPA 2021: Men In Black, Jumanji & VR Agent To Debut At Sega’s Booth
IAAPA is a little under a month away, and that means we’re starting to receive some news on the latest games that will debut at the world’s largest tradeshow for amusements & arcades. Our
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The Video Arcade Industry Turns 50 As We Mark The Launch Of Computer Space
50 years ago today, things would change forever in interactive entertainment – not just for the coin-op amusement industry, but for video games as a whole. While a day in September is for some
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Today In Pinball: Jurassic Park Pin; Scorbit Achievements; Celts Update From Haggis Pinball
For whatever reason, there have been a few news releases on pinball, so I’ll take the liberty of combining them all into one post. This covers three different companies, so let’s fire that ball
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Newsbytes: Insider Connected Is Live; Zoltar Promo; Atari Stuff; Space Out & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post of curated, but brief, arcade/pinball news from around the world. Stern’s Insider Connected Is Now Live As the headline says, you can now make an account with Stern Pinball’s
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Cosmic Digger 3671 Now Available For Arcades + News On New Location Test Games
I’m going to do a “2fer” on this one, as the news would be pretty brief otherwise. Cosmic Digger 3671 Now Shipping The games released for 2021 expands a little, as does the library
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Bandai Namco Amusements Preps Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6RR For Winter Release
H/T To Kamen-Rider Ex-Aid for the tip News has been rather quiet when it comes to Bandai Namco Amusements, but today an update to the beloved, and arcade exclusive, racing series Wangan Midnight Maximum
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Newsbytes: Big Buck World Champion; IAAPA EU; Moon Patrol; MaiMai Universe; & More
Welcome to October, and the first Newsbytes of the month. Hopefully, arcade news picks up a bit from where it’s been over the summer, although it’s hard to say what to expect given the
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Big Buck World Championship XIV Is Now Underway
October has just started and as we enter into the final quarter of the year, a big arcade tournament is now underway with the 14th Big Buck World Championship. Qualifiers were held on all
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