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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Tekken 6 Site Update includes slew of new pics
Namco has updated it’s Japanese Tekken 6 website with quite a bit of information about the game, including a whole lot of screenshots and character profiles, move lists and story about the game. The
Read More »Baseball Heroes 3 Cabinet
[via Dengeki] [via The Stinger Report] Yet another game that we’ll never see over here, although you’d think it would make it over to the U.S, what with there massive love for the sport.
Read More »Joystiq Podcast Talks Arcades! (not for long though)
It may seem little sad & depressing that I’m posting about this, but it’s not very often video game podcasts talk about the arcades, other than that they think they are dying. Anyways,
Read More »Arcade maker IGS sees another month of record revenues
We’ve mentioned IGS before (known in the States as American Alpha), they are an arcade developer based in Taiwan, releasing games in a number of venues, primarily Taiwan, China, and Italy. Thanks to game
Read More »AMOA 2007 Reports from Barcade
Finally, a detailed report of what when on at AMOA 2007. Next year I plan on going there myself, but wasn’t able to this year. The reviews come from Barcade.com and focus on a
Read More »New Arcade Heroes Contact Address
Just a quick one, we have changed our email address to….. tipus@arcadeheroes.com The link on the right has been modified accordingly. Look forward to hearing from you all, not matter whats it’s about. Whether
Read More »RaceTV 4 cab
[Via The Stinger Report] The London Preview is arriving and Sega Amusements will be there showing off a number of games, as we have previously reported. Thanks to The Stinger Report, we have a
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – Tokyo Wars by Namco
I admit that I have been slacking in writing my reviews every week – sometimes it can be difficult to find the time to write something detailed, but I will do it this week no matter
Read More »More To Expand Thier ATEi Floor Space
This kind of thing always interests me because it makes me wonder who is giving up floor space? [via Coin-Op News] Seven more companies have joined the list increasing their first floor stand space
Read More »Stinger Report – Can the Amusements Industry Eliminate the Distributor?
The latest Stinger Report covers a touchy subject in the industry – should the distributor be eliminated? It’s not the first time I’ve heard of this subject being discussed as in the 2005 State
Read More »AMOA and Fun Expo Report from Play Meter
While it’s not much of a report, it is something. Official numbers: AMOA–3,892 registered attendees, 153 exhibitors, and 482 booths; Fun Expo–1,770 attendees, 221 exhibitors, and 224 booths. There were quite a few good
Read More »Global VR Impresses Distributors at AMOA, one says 'Don't Buy from Namco or Sega'
Looks like GlobalVR has won some converts with it’s latest game NASCAR. So much so that one distributor in California has gone as far as writing a message on Coinoptoday.com that operators should avoid
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