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Newsbytes: DDR World Vs PIU 2024, May Trade Shows, New Card Games
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post that curates quick news from around the world of arcades, pinball, and other out-of-home entertainment spaces. As we crawl towards Summer, some interesting developments are afoot, perhaps more than we might normally expect for this time of year. There will be dedicated posts on a few bigger stories to »
Amusement Expo 2024 – The Full Preview
The annual “Spring Show” known as Amusement Expo International is upon us, with the current crop of arcade manufacturers coming together to promote the newest arcade games that will be shipping in time for this Summer. What can we expect to see at this show? Let’s take a look! Note that I will be »
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 »
Super Sizing Amusement! – Part 1
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams (KWP), takes a look at the history of the “Deluxe” and “Super Deluxe” categories of arcade cabinet hardware. These now dominate the arcade landscape, so I felt it fitting to see how we got here. Original text is from »
The Motion Deluxe Version Of NFS Heat Takedown Is Now Available
The weeks after a big tradeshow always tend to be a little slow, although I’ve been a little surprised by just how quiet arcade things have been this April. Fortunately we won’t close the month out this way, as we have something to discuss and that is a new model release of NFS Heat »
Arcade & Pinball Releases For 2023
What arcade & pinball games have been released in 2023? That’s what this page is for! Simply select the region you wish to browse for video games & pinball below via the tabs. Videmption & AR/VR attractions & EM Games are separated out, but those genres tend to only focus on North America. »
Newsbytes: King Kong VR Chapter 3; Winner Winner App; New Arcade Books; Super Hoop Pinball & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news items from around the Arcade & Pinball world for your reading enjoyment. King Kong of Skull Island Adds A 3rd Chapter Operators who have a King Kong VR machine from Raw Thrills will be happy to hear that there is a free update available for the game, »
Location Watch January 2022: New Arcades In FL, CA, VT, IA, TX, Canada, The UK, India & Australia
Welcome to the first Location Watch of 2022. This is an on-going series of posts which highlight new locations that have opened their doors recently (or semi-recently), curated from news around the ‘net. Granted, I can only cover what I hear about and I do try to cover them all, but sometimes things slip »
Newsbytes: RIP Lyman Sheats; Park Avenue 2022; NeoXperience; New Games For PlayChoice-10 & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from the world of arcades & pinball, run on the weekends. As a note, I am working on a new Location Watch post and continue to work on the Games of 2021 video, among other things. Lyman F. Sheats Passes Away At 55 I hate to »
Arcade Heroes Turns 15
It’s December 3rd, and where it’s 2021, the site now marks 15 years in existence. Thank you for your support of the site over these many years. Here’s the first post ever published on the site. The most popular post on the site? 40 Years of Arcade Games (Part 1) The most popular AH video »
Newsbytes: New For Nintendo Vs.; Namco Art Gallery; Armored Princess Battle Conductor & More
Happy Holidays everyone, regardless of the belief you have and the days that you commemorate. Welcome to the final Newsbytes of 2020, with these posts involving a quick collection of news from the arcade/pinball world. There’s not a ton to talk about this time since it’s on the tail end of what is usually »
Happy Space Invaders Day!
It’s time to celebrate another game anniversary, as Taito appears to have taken a page from all of the celebrations surrounding Pac-Man’s 40th, and come up with their own ways to celebrate the game that made the company a force to be reckoned with. Space Invaders did celebrate 40 years back in 2018, but this »
