Jersey Jack Pinball Unleashes The Magic of Harry Potter To Arcades
After months of teasing, the wait is finally over, as Jersey Jack Pinball has launched »
Raw Thrills Launches Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR Ultimate; Top Gun: Maverick
The wait is officially over, as the complete and “ultimate” version of Godzilla Kaiju Wars »
Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes »
LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) »
Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that runs through »
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Unboxing SpaceWarp 66
My second acquisition of the year is now complete, as I recently purchased a SpaceWarp 66 from Touch Magix (purchased through one of the distributors I often use). Here’s the video; If you missed
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GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan
Today, it was revealed that Genda completed their purchase of Sega’s amusement operations division, purchasing the remaining 15% of shares. As a part of that, they changed the name of their company to GENDA
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Location Watch January 2022: New Arcades In FL, CA, VT, IA, TX, Canada, The UK, India & Australia
Welcome to the first Location Watch of 2022. This is an on-going series of posts which highlight new locations that have opened their doors recently (or semi-recently), curated from news around the ‘net. Granted,
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The Lyman Sheats Tribute Post
It was suggested that I do a post just for Lyman Sheats and I have to agree – so let’s use this space to express your condolences for the passing of a master pinball
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Newsbytes: RIP Lyman Sheats; Park Avenue 2022; NeoXperience; New Games For PlayChoice-10 & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from the world of arcades & pinball, run on the weekends. As a note, I am working on a new Location Watch post and continue to
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Prop Cycle-Style Sky Riders by Ace Amusement Is Now Available In The US
Way back in February of last year, I ran a story about an interesting new game that had launched over in the UK/EU via a distributor called UDC; The name of the game was
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Bandai Namco Amusements Updates: New Website; New Pac-Man Basketball Game; MT5DX+ Unbox
We haven’t had much to talk about for the past week or so, but even though today’s news is brief, at least it is something. Back at IAAPA, Nate Nissen of Bandai Namco Amusements
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Bandai Namco Amusements Launches Maximum Tune 5DX+ In North America
It’s unusual for us to have a specific release date for arcade games here in the West – often times games will just ship without public notice until they just appear on location. Fortunately
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The Arcade Anniversaries of 2022 (25, 40 & 50 Year Milestones)
It’s a new year, and with arcade news being a tiny bit slow, I figured it would be a good time to bring an old article series back – looking at arcade anniversaries. This
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Newsbytes: Arcade 1up Pro, Funhouse 2.0 & Some Other Assorted Arcade News
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post where we take a quick look at bits of arcade & pinball news from around the world. It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these as
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Pre-Orders Open For Akai Katana/Crimson Katana EXA Label
Arcade shoot ’em ups aren’t as strong as they used to be on the North American market, but the genre isn’t dead. Thanks to the efforts of some indie companies and now exA-Arcadia, fans
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Stern Pinball Unveils Details on Rush
Well, it’s a busy day all of the sudden! First was news of Sega shipping Mission: Impossible Arcade machines and now we have the details revealed on Stern’s latest piece, Rush. This game is
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