February Trade Shows: NJAA Expo (New Jersey); FEExpo (Italy); DEAL (Dubai)
Though the main arcade trade shows of the first quarter of the year happen with »
LAI Games Begins Shipping Phantom Vanguard In North America
Another arcade exclusive is now available in North America, as Gameloft/IGS/Wahlap’s Phantom Vanguard is now »
New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix
Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing »
Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedgehog Arcade1Up, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized »
Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon
The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next »
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Hip Hop Scotch – Namco's foot controlled redemption game
First there was Taito’s Space Invaders ‘Beat The Attackers’, then someone made an unauthorized foot-controlled Frogger game and now Namco is joining the foot-controlled redemption/video mix with this new title called Hip Hop Scotch.
Read More »MTV brings us Capcom's advice on buying SFIV
The MTV game blog (yeah, they haven’t been just about the music for years) has some advice on buying SFIV if you’re in the market for the game, which boils down to ‘wait for
Read More »Gamespot segment about arcades
Here’s something you don’t see everyday but it does relate to what Editor of The Stinger Report has been telling us about the consumer game media – that the appeal of Street Fighter IV
Read More »A preview of what Sega is showing at next months JAMMA event
The Amusement Machine Show (also known as JAMMA) will soon be here and thanks to The Stinger Report we have a preview of what we can expect to see from Sega at the
Read More »A Street Fighter IV Players Guide
If you live within the distance of an arcade that happens to have a Street Fighter IV arcade setup and you want to go in knowing what you’re doing already, then this guide is
Read More »New Space Invaders pillow to invade your sleep
If there’s any wonder as to why Taito isn’t happy about their trademarked characters being used in unauthorized exhibits, it’s probably because they are currently in full swing with an advertising campaign that uses
Read More »Taito not happy about the use of Space Invaders at the Leipzig show, considering legal action
If you follow the consumer game media at all then you probably have heard of the Leipzig Game Show that has been going on in Germany. You also might have heard of the controversial
Read More »What gives with the consumer game media (an open letter)
Again from our friend Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, an open letter discussing the issue of the not-so-glowing coverage of the arcade industry in conventional game media: Why dose the consumer game media
Read More »Post-Edinburgh Interactive Festival Report
Previously we have discussed the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and how our friend Kevin Williams was going to present a seminar about the amusement industry to that show and now we have the details. He
Read More »System16 gets an update
A few years ago, before Arcade Heroes was around I got most of new game news from a great site called system16. Chances are, you are familiar with it too as it was an
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