The Great IAAPA Expo 2025 Preview
Welcome to our IAAPA 2025 preview! In these annual posts before the event, we meticulously »
exA-Arcadia Launches New Games, To Show Baki Hanma & Toxic Crusaders At IAAPA 2025
Among our final entries in previews for the IAAPA 2025 tradeshow is exA-Arcadia. They often »
Japan Amusement Expo 2025: The Preview
IAAPA 2025 isn’t the only major arcade event happening this month, with Japan’s Amusement Expo »
Bandai Namco IAAPA 2025 Preview: Speed Rider 4DX; The Future; Mini World; Pac-Man & More
One company that usually unveils their lineups for Western shows pretty close to the wire »
New Games From UNIS For IAAPA 2025: Spin City; Monster Jet Riders; More
Next up on the IAAPA 2025 preview roster is UNIS. I remember first coming across »
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Over 1,700 Arcade Game Manuals
Wow! Now this is a truly amazing resource, thanks to Kotaku for pointing this out. [ASCII by Jason Scott via Waxy.org] [Over 1,700 Arcade Game Manuals] [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »gamesTM Review of Mario Kart Arcade GP 2
Click on the thumbnail to check out gamesTM’s latest arcade review. Always great to see arcades getting a bit of coverage in gaming magazines. [Discuss on the Forum
Read More »Big update at Coinopexpress; Basara X, Silent Hill, Otomedius listed
Coinopexpress has updated their “Coming Soon” section with a number of games, a few of which we hope to see outside of Japan. I might have overlooked Guitar Freaks V4 previously but it is
Read More »Maximum Tune 3, Namco Bandai's first global launch
[Thanks to The Stinger Report] In the gaming world it seems that the best launches are always global ones. Game consoles are starting to perfect the art now and arcade manufacturers seem to be
Read More »5th Arcadia Cup Tournament ends today
[Via Arcade Renaissance] I missed this one last weekend, thanks to The Stinger Report for pointing me to it. The Tougeki Super Battle Opera is opening the festivities for its 5th Arcadia Cup Tournament
Read More »Hacked Initial D4 cards?
[Via The Stinger Report] It never ceases to amaze me the lengths at which some players will go to cheat at games because they aren’t good enough to get anywhere otherwise or they are
Read More »New Crane concept – Robo Crane
[Via Kevin Williams @ The Stinger Report] Toy cranes haven’t changed much over the years but as of late they have been seeing some hard competition from the likes of Stacker titles. In
Read More »What We Are Playing This Week……
I, myself have not really had much of a chance to hit the arcades in recent weeks, so for me it’s been all about the 360 at the moment. Shaggy -Tapper (Arcade) -Sinistar (Arcade)
Read More »Starting my own arcade
This isn’t news as we generally post – just rambling on. I am on my way to getting my arcade business started as yesterday I went up to the State Commerce department and registered
Read More »Beatmania IIDX 15 DJ Troopers location tests
Konami is currently testing it’s aptly named “Beatmania IIDX 15 DJ Troopers” arcade game in Japan. I’ll admit that I am not terribly familiar with the game as I have not had a chance
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