Newsbytes: Arcades at MAGFest 2025, Japan Game Updates, Headlines & More
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Bandai Namco Reveals Wangan Midnight Speed Ignition
For several years now, one of the most heavily-rumored arcade games out there has been »
Sega’s Maimai DX Is Headed To Amusement Expo 2025
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! It’s now February, which means that we’re a »
Location Watch Japan Special: A Look At Aeon Mall Arcades (Molly Fantasy, Feedy Diner & Arcade)
Welcome to a different kind of Location Watch from what Arcade Heroes has done previously! »
Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan
A few weeks ago, mention was made in a Newsbytes of a mysterious new Bandai »
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More Street Fighter 4 News & Screenshot
1UP and magazine EGM have snagged some new details and the first screen shot of the next Street Fighter game. Click on the image to see the full high-res version of it. As for
Read More »Blazing Angels Arcade by Global VR
[Discuss on the Forum] (Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge) Afterburner Climax, meet your competition. Then again the games are probably quite different as far as gameplay since AfterBurner is on-rails and this
Read More »What Have We Been Playing This Week….
Now you may notice an extra name on the post this week and that is because we have added a new member to the team. Sara has been tipping us for a while on simulator related news. So I thought
Read More »Editorial: 1 step to improve your arcade – Fix the games!
Have you ever walked into an arcade, looking for your favorite game that you always play and once you find it plop in some quarters/tokens to find that one of the buttons don’t work?
Read More »Houston Arcade Expo 2007 video
A short while back we brought up the Houston Area Arcade Expo 2007. If you didn’t have the opportunity of going, then here is a video to show you what you missed. I would
Read More »Genna Group Launch Life-Size Games
Now this one intrigues me. Not much is given away by the below description, game wise. But what does sound amazing is the playing area can be up to 1000 square feet, as long
Read More »Winning Eleven Arcade 2008 Location Test
[via Konami Japan] Pro Evo Winning Eleven Arcade 2008 is to be placed on location test soon in Japan, and the question I keep asking is; were the hell is Winning ElevenPro Evo Arcade 2007 on
Read More »Location Test Video: Wacky Races
As promised….. I’ll have to apologize for the shakiness of the video. This is not down to me being on a bender last night, more to do with the fact that I was on
Read More »Wacky Races On Secret Location Test At London Trocadero
Received a great tip yesterday from site reader Jimmy Beech. Read on…. Yo arcade dudes! Thought you’d wanna know that I saw a new racing game at Funland today, some guy there said
Read More »Pro Golf Simulator
(Click on the images to enlarge, images via Gizmag) This is a bit old already but since Arcade Heroes wasn’t around when it came out so it’s better late than never. This Pro
Read More »Toyota Simulator rivals OutRun SP 2 Deluxe
(Photos via Gizmag, click to enlarge) You’ve already seen the pictures of Sega’s massive OutRun 2 Special Deluxe cabinet where real cars (or replicas of them at least) are used as the ‘game cabinets’
Read More »Only One Week To Go! Vote Now For Your Game Of The Year!
So seeing as we are coming up to our first birthday and as we creep closer and closer to have achieved 100,000 hits we thought what better way to celebrate than to hold a
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