Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
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LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
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Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
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Konami Releases Contra Burst To Round1USA
Late last year, word spread around in arcade circles about a brand new Contra video »
Alan-1 Launches Soda Slam!
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State of Amusement Coverage – Arcade Heroes Exclusive Commentary
Well the question has been posed on a number of forums and emails following the Play Value “The Death of Arcades” shambolic video, “Why do consumer game journalists hate arcade so much?” I have
Read More »What We Are Playing This Week……
I have been playing a lot of Pro Evo 6 recently in anticipation of the latest yearly update. Which reminds me, what happened to PES arcade, I have not seen one out in the
Read More »1UP's California 'Extreme' Tour
Head over to 1UP for thier California ‘Extreme’ Tour. You’ll find it on the 1UP Show page and the video is called “This is not the 1Up Show – Episode 12”. Also in this
Read More »2nd edition of Arcade & Pinball World Records book now available
Twin Galaxies has announced the 2nd edition of their book entitled ‘Twin Galaxies’ Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records’. It covers Arcades and Pinball machines only (which of course are totally
Read More »The King of Kong released today
The documentary about two arcade champions is being released in theaters today, although it appears that it will be hitting theaters in a slow wave instead of a braod release. According to the listing
Read More »Death of the arcade being greatly exaggerated by mainstream game journalists
[Via Gametrailers via Arcade Renaissance] I caught this at Arcade Renaissance and I’m glad I did. Anytime we can debunk falsehoods that come from the mainstream gaming journalism world I’m happy to line up.
Read More »Initial D4 Websites
While checking up on the Sega Amusements (US) website I noticed a banner for their new racer Initial D4 that states “Click here to see what all of the HYPE is about!”. I
Read More »Pics from this years California Extreme event!
(Photos Courtesy of Ataricade (www.ataricade.com)) The California Extreme(CAX) event has come and gone but with it are a ton of pics! Here we are reposting many pictures taken by user Ataricade (who runs an
Read More »AAMA Gala Picture Gallery
While the public didn’t hear much news or fanfare about the AAMA Gala that was held last week, there was news to be made from the event. First our close associates The Stinger Report(Aug
Read More »DDR Supernova 2 Website open
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Konami is gearing up for the next (10th) installment of DDR in both Japan and overseas and to prove it, the official website is now open. At the moment there
Read More »Shaggy's Weekly Review – The Crystal of Kings
I almost didn’t get around to writing this as I had a little health trouble this week and ended up in the hospital for part of a night. It wasn’t anything terribly serious but
Read More »Cardboard MiniArcades for your PSP
[Thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report] If you own a PSP and have wanted to turn it into an arcade cabinet, then here is your chance, I suppose. “SUCK UK” has
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