Newsbytes: Utah Retro GameXpo 2025; Speed Rider 4DX; Konami Tests New Gashaaaan!; More
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Bandai Namco Announces One Piece Dawn Strike – New Punching Arcade Game
The new arcade games just keep on coming with Bandai Namco, as today they have »
Qualifiers Open For The Wahlap E-Sports Championship 2025
eSports don’t belong just to the realm of PC gaming and Smash Bros – there »
LAI Games Releases Cyberpunk 2077: Turf Wars To All Arcades
As we run through the dog days of summer, it’s time for another big arcade »
Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes »
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Unboxing & Reviewing The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018) Arcade Game
Doing an”unbox” of an arcade game is not exactly done with frequency but when the opportunity arises, I do try and film it. This week was a very rare event for me at the
Read More »Tomy Waterfuls Ring Toss Redemption Game by ICE and Toccata Gaming International Updates
I previously reported on a new redemption game made by ICE called Tomy Waterfuls Ring Toss, based off the water-based toy game from the 1970’s and 1980’s. This game is currently located at Dave
Read More »Volumetric Displays From Voxon Photonics Now Commercially Available
While the focus of the blog here is on arcade news and opinion, it’s not just about new releases and locations. The technology that can be adapted for out-of-home entertainment/amusement is just as interesting
Read More »Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Gets A Sales Trailer
The arcade side of the business is a little bit different from what you find for home consoles and those differences lead to an alternative way of handling marketing. The basic layout of the
Read More »RIP Heighway Pinball
Last week we heard a ‘rumbling’ that UK based pinball manufacturer Heighway Pinball was filing for bankruptcy. Now, that has been confirmed as a public notice regarding the liquidation of the company’s assets will
Read More »Newsbytes: LvL Up Opens (CA); Shrek & Baywatch Pins Get Color; Classic Game News & More
Welcome to another weekend and with that, a collection of news from around the arcade world. Here’s what we’ve got for you today: LvL Up Opens For Business (Campbell, CA) While I was saving
Read More »Now Available: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Way back in October of last year, we discovered that American developer Raw Thrills was hard at work on the creation of a new beat ’em up arcade game called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Read More »Changes Come To Big Buck Wild With The May 2018 Update
It was recently announced that commercial/online Big Buck Wild machines would be receiving a big new update on May 1st, 2018. We ran a post about what was known here; since then we’ve been
Read More »New Fighter: The Kung Fu Vs. Karate Champ Coming To Arcades 2018
UPDATE: The game was delayed until early 2020, where it did release worldwide in January of the year. We all understand just how important 1v1 fighters have been to arcades over the years but
Read More »Testing Now: Spins Ahoy!
A while back, we heard rumblings and saw distant, blurry shots of a Jumanji videmption arcade game that was on test at a Dave & Busters location. We never got a good look at
Read More »WHAM-O BLAST Redemption game back on location at Dave & Busters Buffalo NY
It’s time for another look at a game on test, this time with WHAM-O BLAST. This a new redemption arcade game from ICE and Acme Game Designs. It is currently on location at the
Read More »Cosmotrons Update: Now Available To Order!
The journey of the indie arcade game Cosmotrons is about to come to a head as we have a new update to share with you in regards to the production version of the game.
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