Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World
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Earthion EXA LABEL Blasts Its Way Into Arcades
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New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More
We’re a little ways past the Chinese amusement trade show AAA 2025, and the question »
Indie Arcade Focus: Speglar
While indie developed arcade games have reduced in numbers since 2020, they haven’t gone away, »
Taking A Close Look At Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot On Test
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Dream Arcades launches their DreamCade Vision 120
Hot on the heels of the Voyager Arcade news comes this press release about Dream Arcades’ new DreamCade Vision 120 which packs 145 classic games onto a MAME PC along with a pre-built control
Read More »Namco getting ready to sue the pants off Voyager Arcade
See this cabinet above? It probably won’t be around much longer. If you are into arcades at all, you can’t surf the internet without running into one of these MAME-enabled cabinets that someone decided
Read More »Asteroids blasting its way to XBLA Wednesday
(click to enlarge) We don’t mention arcade remakes coming to XBLA that often but I felt that this one is worth mentioning as it’s Asteroids. That’s right, Atari mighty classic makes it way
Read More »What Have We Been Playing This Week….
Shaggy has gone back to the Wii classic Wii Sports and I have been playing, among other things, Sonic and Mario at the Olympic, which some are dubbing Wii Sports 2. Shaggy -Warlords (Arcade)
Read More »Super Mickey Mouse Brothers Crane
[Thanks to The Stinger Report] From what I gather Nintendo and Disney don’t take kindly to thier IP’s being ripped off, so I’m thinking who ever came up with this bizarre combo of Mario
Read More »Mega 3D Theatre
This one flew under the radar for me, but our good friends at Sega Nerds were kind enough to point out this piece in Edge about it. After a bit more digging around we
Read More »Location Review: Voyager Entertainment – Stansted Airport
Now it’s always a bonus when you come across an arcade at the airport. Firstly it’s a great way to kill time and secondly stops me drinking too much at the airport bar and
Read More »Horse Riders Location Test
(Click on the image to enlarge) I don’t know much about this game but while on the Konami site looking at information about Action Detective I caught that this other coin-op title from Konami
Read More »Konami's Action Detective Heads to location test
[Via The Stinger Report] (Click on the image above to enlarge) Since I first heard about this a month or two ago I have been eager to find out more about Konami’s new 3D
Read More »Wii House of the Dead Box Art
[via GoNintendo] I don’t know what it is about box art, but it always gets me more excited about a game. Especially when it has zombies on it! [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »SquareEnix heats up Japanese card game scene with The Lord of Vermillion
It looks like coin-operated trading card RPG titles are here to stay (at least in Japan – it still remains to be seen how well these games will catch on overseas although reports say
Read More »Some brief IAAPA 2007 coverage
[Via Barcade.com] Barcade has posted two articles on their experience at this year’s IAAPA event. There are some descriptions of games we’ve discussed here including the new Sea Wolf, TrioTech’s UFO Stomper, Sega’s RaceTV
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