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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Sega Rally 3 revealed
Yesterday Sega Europe held a private launch event to demonstrate their next arcade racer and the next game in the Sega Rally series, Sega Rally 3. We first found out about this game a
Read More »Tatsunoko vs. Capcom – First screens
It’s official, folks – 2008 is the year of the fighting game. Not content with bringing back the Street Fighter series, Capcom has revived its popular line of crossover fighting games. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Read More »Sega's RaceTV gets a price drop
Some good news on the Sega front, especially for arcade operators – I was informed by my distributor today that Sega has decided to drop the price on RaceTV by $2000 to better position
Read More »My arcade update 5/21 (w/video)
Sorry about the delay in updates, I have been very busy trying to get everything sorted out. Thankfully some family members have decided to take out some signature loans to help me out with
Read More »A 2nd look at GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2008 (w/ a few new games to look at)
A few posts ago we ran coverage on the little-known GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2008 that took place a short time ago in Taiwan. It looks like it was a fun show but in
Read More »New game: Power Boat by IMOtion! (w/ video and 1st pics)
Today we’re doing pretty well, first the Nicktoon racing game and now Power Boat by IMOtion (InJoy Motion). Of course Power Boat is one game that we have discussed before – I saw a
Read More »New from Raw Thrills: NickToons Knighttro
(Click on the image above to see it full size) We finally have confirmation on one of Raw Thrills’ newest games – the word on the street is that this is just one of
Read More »Pinball is making the media rounds – coming soon to Modern Marvels
When I first saw the headline for this press release I thought that maybe Stern would be making a pin based upon Modern Marvels, which sent my head into thinking about how interesting that
Read More »Open Letter to the Amusement Trade by The Stinger Report
By Kevin Williams Open Letter To Amusement Trade (19/05/08) Reaction to Recent Media Coverage The Situation This open letter is being sent out to the trade regarding a disturbing situation which seems to be
Read More »Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball featured on American Idol
You don’t see pinball very often in popular media these days so when it does show up, it catches you off guard, especially if it’s one of Stern’s newer pins. So when American Idol
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