Sega’s Maimai DX Is Apparently Headed To Amusement Expo 2025
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Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan
A few weeks ago, mention was made in a Newsbytes of a mysterious new Bandai »
Game Updates + Cambria Sword Another Cry AC Now Available
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Atari’s Missile Command Returning To Arcades With Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1
This past weekend, Alan-1 held their second annual Major League eSports League World Championship. While »
Alan-1 Holds Second Annual Major League eSports League World Championship
A battle for fortune & glory is underway, as the second annual Major League eSports »
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Location Watch August 2024: New Arcades Opening The World Over
Welcome to Location Watch, a special series of posts that curates news about recent arcade business openings from around the world, into one place. The last time that we had one of these posts
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Kevin Williams: Dance The Night Away To The Rhythm Resurgence
Guest contributor & industry specialist Kevin Williams is back, this time taking a look at the “rhythm resurgence” as music games return to prominence on the gaming scene. Take it away Kevin! KWP: In
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Attending Expos: California Extreme 2024 & Utah Retro GameXpo 2024
Things have been a little bit quiet for the blog lately, but I’ve been super busy. Big nod to Ted for helping out on many stories and drafts during this time. In the meantime,
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Maimai DX Hops Over To Dave & Busters For Testing
Here’s a unexpected surprise for our dog days of summer news cycle – Maimai DX is expanding its location test reach by now appearing at Dave & Busters Dallas. Let’s take a look: Maimai
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Breakers Revenge Chicago Is Now Available For Arcades
It’s a new month and that means at least one new arcade release. July was a slow month for new arcade titles, but thanks to exA-Arcadia, Breakers Revenge Chicago is now available for anyone
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BumbleBear Games Offers ZOMBEEZ: A Killer Queen Remix for Pre-Order
I’m back from CAX (click here to watch a tour – I will likely do a post about the event here soon) and that means its time to catch up on a little news
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On Test: Godzilla Kaiju Drop; Beatmania IIDX 32 Pinky Crush; Kung Fu Panda The Warriors Gauntlet
I’m leaving for California Extreme (CAX) tomorrow but before I go, let’s get to some location test news – one game testing in Japan, one from Japan that’s testing in the US, then another
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Newsbytes: Taiko No Tatsujin USA Updates, Golden Tee 2025, Naruto Details, More
Welcome to Newsbytes, our regular series of posts at Arcade Heroes that rounds up quick bites of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. As ever, Summer can be a slow season
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Atari Announces Asteroids Recharged Arcade Orders
The return of Atari and Asteroids to arcades is upon us, as the former revealed today in a press release about orders opening for Asteroids Recharged Arcade on their website. Note that Adam has
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Confirmed: Taiko No Tatsujin Is Launching In US Arcades This November
You may remember in our last post about Marvelous’ two new kids card game launches, it was said that they would possibly be the biggest arcade news for this month. Well, less than two
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Two New From Marvelous: Naruto Emblem Battle (NA), Pokemon Frienda (JP)
The dog days of summer have been dragging on as usual, and arcade news has been fairly quiet in more ways than one of late. Part of that is down to this very site
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Stern Pinball Unleashes The Godzilla 70th Anniversary Premium Table
The King of Monsters is turning 70 this year, and to celebrate, we’ve already received a VR arcade title from Raw Thrills. Now, Stern Pinball has launched a new Premium edition of their Godzilla
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