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Konami's Action Detective Heads to location test
[Via The Stinger Report] (Click on the image above to enlarge) Since I first heard about this a month or two ago I have been eager to find out more about Konami’s new 3D
Read More »Wii House of the Dead Box Art
[via GoNintendo] I don’t know what it is about box art, but it always gets me more excited about a game. Especially when it has zombies on it! [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »SquareEnix heats up Japanese card game scene with The Lord of Vermillion
It looks like coin-operated trading card RPG titles are here to stay (at least in Japan – it still remains to be seen how well these games will catch on overseas although reports say
Read More »Some brief IAAPA 2007 coverage
[Via Barcade.com] Barcade has posted two articles on their experience at this year’s IAAPA event. There are some descriptions of games we’ve discussed here including the new Sea Wolf, TrioTech’s UFO Stomper, Sega’s RaceTV
Read More »Insert Coins To Continue – Edge Arcade Article – Nov '98
I was rooting through all my old issues of Edge’s this week and came across this great article about the arcade industry in the late nineties. This was also the period when Edge
Read More »Derby Owners Club 2008 testing in Japan
The Derby Owner’s Club 2008 website has been updated to show that the game is currently testing in Japan at three different locations. While there is no information on an international release of this
Read More »Castle Golf Video Tour by PressStartComic
What’s better than reading a location review? Seeing a location review! Nick from PressStartComic takes us on a tour of Castle Golf Video on Long Island. They have a nice arcade setup there with
Read More »Sea Wolf price and release
If you checked out the videos below from IAAPA 2007 thanks to Justin from Sega, you would have seen the first footage of the new video redemption game called Sea Wolf, based upon a
Read More »Virtua Fighter 5 Ver. D Details
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Sega has unveiled some details on the latest version of the VF5 arcade that is going to be coming out to challenge Tekken 6 in arcades. If you were hoping for
Read More »Primeval Hunt & IAAPA 2007 Videos
We received an email today from Sega Europe’s marketing & promotions manager Justin Burke which was a nice surprise. Last week he was in IAAPA and got some video of Primeval Hunt as well
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