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Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

July 19, 2025, No Comments on Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts which focus on quick news pieces from around the wonderful world of arcades & pinball. We generally aim to publish these on the weekend so that you have something to read about them. As mentioned before news has been slow in the dog days of Summer, »

IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 2: Bandai Namco Amusement; Sega Amusements; LAI Games; UNIS

IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 2: Bandai Namco Amusement; Sega Amusements; LAI Games; UNIS

December 6, 2024, No Comments on IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 2: Bandai Namco Amusement; Sega Amusements; LAI Games; UNIS

It’s finally time to continue our after-show coverage of IAAPA 2024 with its second part, now tackling the likes of Bandai Namco Amusement, Sega Amusements, LAI Games and UNIS. This does not complete everyone, but will continue to get you caught up on all of the biggest news and announcements on the new games »

UNIS Launches Bigfoot Smash, Teases Sailor’s Quest VR 2 & Monster Kart

UNIS Launches Bigfoot Smash, Teases Sailor’s Quest VR 2 & Monster Kart

October 4, 2024, No Comments on UNIS Launches Bigfoot Smash, Teases Sailor’s Quest VR 2 & Monster Kart

We’ve got a few new arcade games out of UNIS to discuss today, ranging from one that now looks set to release, to a couple more that are currently waiting in the wings still. All of these have been previously mentioned as part of our Chinese trade show coverage this year, however not in »

Location Watch March 2024: New Arcades Open Up All Around The World

Location Watch March 2024: New Arcades Open Up All Around The World

March 30, 2024, No Comments on Location Watch March 2024: New Arcades Open Up All Around The World

Welcome to Location Watch, our regular series of posts covering recently-launched venues across the world. What new arcade businesses have opened up lately? That question is what these reports are all about. For many years now here at AH, we’ve strived to report on all of the recent grand openings for out-of-home entertainment establishments »

Amusement Expo 2024: Booth Tours #1 [Team Play, Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, Sega, Pinball]

Amusement Expo 2024: Booth Tours #1 [Team Play, Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, Sega, Pinball]

March 23, 2024, 1 Comment on Amusement Expo 2024: Booth Tours #1 [Team Play, Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, Sega, Pinball]

With Amusement Expo 2024 now well in our rear view mirror, it’s time to talk a little more about what was there. I’ve been busy editing and uploading videos to YouTube, so subscribe there if you want to see this stuff before I get around to a post. Still, it’s important to keep things »

State of the Industry & Arcade Year-In-Review 2023

State of the Industry & Arcade Year-In-Review 2023

December 29, 2023, 1 Comment on State of the Industry & Arcade Year-In-Review 2023

It is time to look back at the year and see where we’re at as an industry, with this Arcade Year-In-Review 2023 and ‘State of the Industry’ report. I’m harkening back to Play Meter Magazine with this idea, where that trade publication used to present a ton of valuable data about where the arcade »

IAAPA Expo Europe 2023 Preview

IAAPA Expo Europe 2023 Preview

September 21, 2023, No Comments on IAAPA Expo Europe 2023 Preview

IAAPA is here, although it’s not “the” IAAPA that is implied in most of my posts. IAAPA themselves are an amusement industry related trade organization and they put together various shows throughout each year. The largest of these events is just called the IAAPA Expo and it takes place every November the week before »

Dave & Busters Brings Top Gun: Maverick To Their VR Platform

Dave & Busters Brings Top Gun: Maverick To Their VR Platform

June 7, 2022, 2 Comments on Dave & Busters Brings Top Gun: Maverick To Their VR Platform

(H/T to Kevin Williams for the tip) I was recently asked on Twitter if we could expect to see a Top Gun: Maverick game in the amusement industry any time soon, and in my response, I did forget about VR platforms like the one that Dave & Busters has. If you’ve been to a »

Stern Pinball Pulls The Curtain Back On Elvira’s House of Horrors

Stern Pinball Pulls The Curtain Back On Elvira’s House of Horrors

September 18, 2019, No Comments on Stern Pinball Pulls The Curtain Back On Elvira’s House of Horrors

After the initial online tease on Friday the 13th, today Stern Pinball officially revealed details on their next game, Elvira’s House of Horrors. The company rolled out the full details through an exclusive story on IGN this morning, then they also posted details on Facebook, Twitter and their own website. To that end, here’s »

New Games For Arcades: Indie Games Storm The Scene (Amusement Expo 2019)

New Games For Arcades: Indie Games Storm The Scene (Amusement Expo 2019)

March 30, 2019, 1 Comment on 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 to check out what was there, play it and film it. This is organized by the AMOA and AAMA industry »