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Initial D5 on location test in Japan
Yep, add another racer to the slate of arcade releases this year. Sega is now testing the latest iteration of the Initial D series, Initial D5 in arcades in Japan, reports AM-Net. Since my
Read More »New Xbox 360 Coin-Op Arcade Machine just a day away?
For a while on Highwaygames.com they have had a banner sitting there with a countdown towards an “Xbox Arcade Machine” for sometime now and according to the countdown, tomorrow is the day that it
Read More »Next step in the robot take over – now they can play air hockey!
I jest with the headline about the robot takeover but if you really are concerned about the evolution of robots in the world then here’s another thing for you to worry about. If not
Read More »ExerGaming with Expresso Fitness
We’ve discussed ExerGaming in relation to the coin-op scene before – it’s from the coin-op scene that exergaming really started to take off thanks to Dance Dance Revolution and now you will find that
Read More »GamesTM's Tekken 6 Review
[via GamesTM] It’s always a pleasant surprise to find an arcade review in GamesTM, and this month I was…… pleasantly surprised by this Tekken 6 review. With some big name titles on the horizon, SFIV and
Read More »Pinball on TV
Stern has been on a roll lately. Indiana Jones seems to be doing well (it has been earning quite well at my place, I even had one person play it for 3 hours straight
Read More »Fighter mania continues with BlazBlue
The notion that no one wants to play fighters in the arcade anymore is silly. Apparently Capcom and Namco thinks so when it comes to the US but I have noticed a very interesting
Read More »Guitar Freaks v5 & DrumMania v5 hit arcades in Japan
[Kotaku via IT] Good to see that Konami’s instrument games are still going strong. It’s just a shame we don’t get to see these games that much in the UK. I’d like to think
Read More »Street Fighter IV at London's Battle of Destiny
Battle of Destiny is a tournament for the hardcore fighting fans out there – a proving ground in which challengers compete on Hyper Street Fighter 2, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Capcom vs SNK 2
Read More »Rumour: London's Funland under threat?
This one is an interesting piece of rumour, but back in January Ripley’s Believe It or Not! announced its intention to open a new museum in London’s Trocadero this August, occupying around 25,000 square
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