July Trade Shows: Bowl Expo & IAAPA Expo Asia 2025
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Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates Disembarks Into Western Shores
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Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More
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On Test: Star Wars Death Star Assault, Beatmania IIDX 33 Sparkle Shower, Earthion EXA Label
Though usually light on big announcements or releases, Summer often brings with it a good »
exA-Arcadia Puts Daemon Bride exAGAIN & Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Up For Pre-Order
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Location Watch: Maniac’s Mansion (TX); Quarters Bar+Arcade (CO); Apex Entertainment (NY); Play Money Pinball (FL); Pixels Arcade (WI) & More
I’ll keep on saying this until it somehow gets stuck into the public’s consciousness, but the amusement industry is on fire right now. Dozens of locations continue to open their doors out there, and
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Newsbytes: Samurai Spirits AC; Star Trek VR for Dave & Busters; AAMA Awards; Piano Pinball & More
Hello valiant readers, and welcome to another edition of Newsbytes. If you’re new to the site, Newsbytes are posted every Saturday and feature a variety of quick news items from the wonderful world of
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Sega Amusements Announces Availability of Daytona Champions USA Upgrade, “New Season Edition”
At IAAPA 2018, Sega previewed an early build of another major update to their arcade-exclusive Daytona Championship USA game. Called the New Season Edition, this software package made several big modifications to the game,
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Delving Into Galactic Battleground by Slackerz Inc.
The big surprise of Amusement Expo 2019 for me, was the strong focus on indie-made arcade games. These are titles that have not been developed by one of the major manufacturers that we generally
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Post Your High Scores To The Raw Thrills Hall Of Fame
For the past several years, many Raw Thrills arcade titles have incorporated a QR code score sharing system, where a user who finishes a game can whip out their smartphone, open a QR scanner
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April Fools 2019: Textminator II; Cosmotrons Console Edition; World President’s Challenge
Well the first day of April is about over, so now that we’ve had some fun with the fake version of Super Smash Bros. Arcade, it’s time to see who else cooked up a
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Bandai Namco Amusements Confirms Super Smash Bros. Arcade For Arcades (UPDATED)
UPDATE: Some information of the most important nature has been added to the bottom of the post. Please check it out on this, the first day of April, 2019. 2019 has been quite the
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New Arcades @ Amusement Expo 2019 – Centipede Chaos (ICE); ATV Slam (Sega); Nerf Arcade (Raw Thrills)
Pictured: The Pac-Man Statue that was seen at the Speedy’s One Stop Repair Booth Continuing with our coverage of the Amusement Expo International 2019 trade show that took place on the last week of
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Newsbytes: Sonic & Mario Olympics 2020 Arcade Edition; Big Lebowski Bowling & More
Where I’ve been busy with Amusement Expo videos and posts, I haven’t had a lot of time to collect items for Newsbytes, but thanks to you readers on the different social media sites out
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New Games For Arcades: Indie Games Storm The Scene (Amusement Expo 2019)
The Spring event for the trade of arcade/amusement games has come and gone, better known as Amusement Expo 2019. Held in Las Vegas over the past three days, I took the quick flight down
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Stern Pinball Fully Unveils Black Knight: Sword of Rage
UPDATE: Stern has posted a press release, which I’ve added at the end of the post. You can also download a PDF file of the full features matrix here. Yesterday was the teaser on
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