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Tecnoplay Launches Website, Trailer For Racecraft Arcade
There are three pillars of development focus in the modern arcade industry: gun games, racing games, and redemption. While you do get titles that fall outside of those three “genre pillars,” most R&D is
Read More »Bandai Namco Begins Testing Super Panic Ball In Japan
A few weeks ago, some big news came along that Taito was testing out a new head-to-head pinball concept by the name of Space Invaders Pinball Jam. Readers were so interested in this story,
Read More »Stern Pinball Officially Unveils The Munsters At CES 2019
Every time a new pinball machine is released, fans are already looking to the next game, and when we heard about The Beatles, rumors were circulating that The Munsters was next. Today, with CES
Read More »Now Shipping: Halo: Fireteam Raven 2-player (Plus new screenshots)
Continuing the solid start for 2019 in terms of new arcade machines, we’ve got an update for gamers & operators who are interested in the more compact version of Halo: Fireteam Raven. For a
Read More »Newsbytes: High Score Girl; Dark Presence Footage; Ralph Coppola Passing; Arcade History & More
Welcome to the year’s first Newsbytes, a collection of arcade news from around the web from the past week (or two..or three..in today’s case). I do have a story on Halo: Fireteam Raven 2-player
Read More »NESiCAxLive 2 Begins Testing In The USA Until Jan. 27th
Just a quickie post here. We recently highlighted news about Taito looking to test their NESiCAxLive 2 digital download arcade network in the states, and now it has begun. This tweet from the official
Read More »Launching This Month: Pump It Up XX – 20th Anniversary Edition
2019 is starting off with strong for the arcade business, as we have a couple of new games to discuss that should be available for arcade/amusement venues to add to their collections. For this
Read More »Sega Unleashes An ATV Slam Trailer
Back in October of last year (2018, of course 😉 ), Sega Amusements unveiled a brand new racing arcade game to the world, ATV Slam. Unfortunately, the game did not make an appearance at
Read More »The Arcade Heroes 2018 Year-In-Review
2019 is upon us, which means that it is time to take a look back at the arcade, pinball and other amusement news of 2018. The State Of The Industry 2018 2018 has been
Read More »New Arcades 2018: Japan Update; Babylon Park (Israel); Save Point (MD); Starcade (NJ); Prince Arcades (IL); & More
Welcome to the last new arcade locations post of 2018. This year has been marked by strong growth in the amusement sector, thanks to favorable economic circumstances and a great pool of games to
Read More »Taito To Begin Testing NESiCAxLive 2 Exclusively At Round1USA
At the end of 2010, Taito released their version of a digital game delivery service to Japanese arcades by the name of NESiCAxLive. The idea was to replace the hardware kit with download-only software
Read More »NG:Dev Team’s “Love Letter” to the Neo Geo, Kraut Buster, Officially Released
Way back in March 2015, the development group behind such modern Neo Geo MVS releases like NEO XYX, Gunlord, Fast Striker and others announced their next project: Kraut Buster. This was an ambitious project
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