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'Round 1' rocks SoCal with bowling, food, pool, arcades and more

September 6, 2010, 10 Comments on 'Round 1' rocks SoCal with bowling, food, pool, arcades and more

A new amusement facility has opened up at the Puente Hills Shopping mall in the LA area and thanks to AH contributor Phil Arrington (who setup the Arcade Heroes videocast at Amusement Expo earlier this year and also gave us a glimpse at an auction not too long ago) we have an in-depth look »

Pentavision and Pipeline Games merge to become Pentavision Global

August 26, 2010, 1 Comment on Pentavision and Pipeline Games merge to become Pentavision Global

A short time ago I noticed that the Pipeline Games website was completely down and it seemed to be staying that way. That didn’t bode well for the brand new company who had brought some quirky games to Amusement Expo earlier this year. The disappearance of the website has been solved today however as »

Are Glasses-free 3D TV's what the arcade industry needs?

August 24, 2010, 3 Comments on Are Glasses-free 3D TV's what the arcade industry needs?

The past few days have been a news desert for arcades and so far today isn’t looking any different although I did find some interest in this story about Toshiba’s development of a new TV set technology that finally allows the viewer to watch stereoscopic 3D content without the aid of glasses. That is »

Terminator Salvation 32" cabinet

August 11, 2010, 4 Comments on Terminator Salvation 32" cabinet

It’s been a few weeks since we first heard about the new Terminator Salvation arcade cabinet that has a smaller 32″ screen and mounted guns but except for a quick look on the AAMA Gala video, we didn’t have a really good look at the cabinet until today. Beston has issued a press release »

É RoboGol!

August 7, 2010, 1 Comment on É RoboGol!

Newsfeed 896 via We have covered a couple of Brazilian made arcade video games in the past, notably Senninha GP and GP Brasil, both racing titles. I also got a look at several arcades when I made a trip down there earlier this year. This new game however fits more in-line with Brazil’s national »

Namco unveils "Dead Heat" at the AAMA Distributor Gala

July 30, 2010, 5 Comments on Namco unveils "Dead Heat" at the AAMA Distributor Gala

Way back in March, we found out that Namco was testing a new racing game that was called Dead Heat Street Racing. I found out a little on the game at Amusement Expo but since then we have been waiting to actually see the game. Namco had the slightly renamed Dead Heat title at »

Andamiro finishes Pump It Up Pro 2; DDR X2 tested in the US

July 22, 2010, No Comments on Andamiro finishes Pump It Up Pro 2; DDR X2 tested in the US

Now for some music game news. First off, Andamiro has finally released Pump It Up Pro 2. The game was first seen at Amusement Expo 2010, where it was well-received by fans and since then the development team has been fine-tuning the game for a final release. According to the PIU blog, the game »

Namco's Tank! Tank! Tank! update adds new enemies, NamCam avatars

July 20, 2010, No Comments on Namco's Tank! Tank! Tank! update adds new enemies, NamCam avatars

Namco America has announced a new software update for Tank! Tank! Tank!, and with it comes new content that gives players more to look for when they play the game. The update will give the game the software update which we first saw at Amusement Expo 2010. This includes the Bee-Bots(pictured above) and Octo-Giant »

Sega's Giant Tetris gets a new, slightly-less-giant cabinet; HUMMER MDX released

July 13, 2010, 5 Comments on Sega's Giant Tetris gets a new, slightly-less-giant cabinet; HUMMER MDX released

One of the nicer game surprises in recent memory was Sega’s release of Giant Tetris(or Tetris Giant – it can go either way) – Tetris with huge joysticks and giant blocks. The game could project a screen of up to 150″ and it was good fun – but it was a $10,000 game which »

So Pac-Man Battle Royale was at the e3 Namco event last night…

June 16, 2010, 8 Comments on So Pac-Man Battle Royale was at the e3 Namco event last night…

…but we have to go to the Japanese game media (or here) to find that out(EDIT: Since I initially posted this, a number of sites have picked up on it and covered the arcade game, see below). You may recall that we reported at the beginning of May that Namco was going to hold »

New game news: Namco's Deadstorm Pirates now available in the US + Razing Storm going to PS3 + DSP on PS3 already?

June 15, 2010, 6 Comments on New game news: Namco's Deadstorm Pirates now available in the US + Razing Storm going to PS3 + DSP on PS3 already?

Most attention in the gaming world is being focused on E3 right now but that shouldn’t stop us from getting some news about arcades thrown out into the ether here. I should have discussed this weeks ago but I missed out on it partially because I was on my trip. Namco’s newest PS3-powered light-gun »

Pics from the show floor of DEAL 2010

May 14, 2010, 7 Comments on Pics from the show floor of DEAL 2010

Newsfeed 802 via While most of the attention towards expos has been going towards GTI lately, there was another expo that took place recently in Dubai that involved amusement products and that was the Dubai Entertainment Amusement & Leisure show or DEAL 2010 for short. Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report had the opportunity »