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Shaggy's Weekly Review – Rockin' Bowl-a-Rama by Namco
I had a chance to play a bowling arcade game this past week and I figured it would be nice to check it out. Since bowling games have had a surge in popularity as
Read More »Free Rice: A Word Game With Heart
Ok, it’s not really arcade and it’s not much of a game but it will help you increase your vocabulary and will help feed the hungry of the world. Go on give it a
Read More »Fate: Unlimited Gods Website update
(Click to Enlarge) It certainly didn’t take long for the Fate: Unlimited Codes website to be updated(we reported about this new 3D fighter by Capcom a couple of days ago). Just the other day
Read More »Rare Shrike Avenger Cabinet on Ebay In Germany
One of readers tipped us off today of a very rare item now currently on sale on ebay. I honestly didn’t know too much about this game and cabinet and there doesn’t seem to be
Read More »What Have We Been Playing This Week……
TOO. MANY. GOOD. GAMES! Shaggy EDIT: Added a couple of games I forgot -Rockin’ Bowl-a-rama (arcade) – Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift (arcade) -Big Buck Hunter Pro (arcade) -The Act (Arcade) -Warlords (Arcade) -Carcassone
Read More »Square Enix 1st-half Net Profit up 32% thanks to arcades
Software giant Square-Enix has announced that it’s net profit for April-September jumped up 32.5% and it’s not thanks so much to console games but arcade titles. As quoted by an article found on @
Read More »IKEA MAME Table
Eat or play games? One of life’s many tough decisions. Now thanks to this creation, that problem is solved! Unfortunately this is a one off and not for sale. 🙁 [via Boing Boing]
Read More »House of the Dead 2 & 3 Confirmed for Wii
Now this one we all saw coming a mile off. I can picture it now in the Sega boardroom… So we’ve done Ghost Squad for Wii, what other lightgun arcade games can we
Read More »King of Kong Coming To DVD
I have been away for a few days and this was a nice bit of news to hear on my return home (along with all the great news coming from IAAPA). According to GoNintendo,
Read More »Article: "Evolving Arcade Culture"
[Via Argus Leader, Sioux Fall SD] Here is another news article that discusses the current state of arcades as well as the culture of arcades. While it misses the target on a few points(such
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