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Guitar Hero Arcade now available
For those who have been eagerly awaiting the release of Raw Thrills’/Konami’s Guitar Hero Arcade, the wait is finally over as models are shipping out to distributors across the country. My own local distributor
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You have probably heard by now that Midway has gone bankrupt and they owe millions of dollars to different companies for various reasons. While Midway stopped making arcade games several years ago (and many
Read More »Namco Bandai’s AOU 2009 website
A few days ago we reported that Sega and Konami had setup websites for AOU 2009 and now Namco Bandai has a page dedicated to what they will be showing off at the event.
Read More »Article: "When the arcades lost their fire"
One great thing about arcades are the memories they create. I think that all of us has a story or two from times we spent at the arcade ‘back in the day’ and the
Read More »Namco talks about arcades, future titles
Highway Games has posted an interview they had with Casey Utsunomiya of Namco Bandai Japan and they discuss Namco’s stance in the arcade industry, their thoughts on it, and future titles. It’s good to
Read More »Dream Arcades releases the Dreamcade Impact cabinet just for fighter games
Street Fighter IV will be out for the consoles in just a few short days and while you could go and buy the Mad Catz sticks to get that supposedly authentic arcade experience, the company
Read More »IGX 2009
As some of you may be aware there was another show going on the same time as ATEI. IGX, which took place just around the corner from Earls Court at Hotel Ibis, has been
Read More »ATEI 2009 Attendance Figures
For once attendance actually increased year on year, not much, but you got to start somewhere right? [via Coin-Op News] Combined figures for ATEI and the newly configured International Gaming Expo, incorporating ICE and
Read More »Sega to scale back operations in Japan, arcades to be affected
Many companies are scaling back in their operations right now and with some arcade companies are being affected as well. That includes Sega, which has announced that they will be “soliciting voluntary retirements” (aka trying to lay off)
Read More »Beck's "Bad Cartridge" grooves to violent arcade games
In a new music video for a song entitled “Bad Cartridge” by the band Beck, they have a tribute to 8-bit gaming – and in a way to arcades as well. I don’t want to
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