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Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World

Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World

March 31, 2026, No Comments on Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World

Welcome to Location Watch, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that compiles the most recent openings of new arcades all around the world. It’s been a couple months since the last one now, so enough has built up for this post to have a healthy amount of locations. Many thanks as always to »

Newsbytes: Resident Evil 2: Arcade On Test In Japan; Texas Pinball Festival; Konami Rhythm Games Come To America; More

Newsbytes: Resident Evil 2: Arcade On Test In Japan; Texas Pinball Festival; Konami Rhythm Games Come To America; More

March 22, 2026, No Comments on Newsbytes: Resident Evil 2: Arcade On Test In Japan; Texas Pinball Festival; Konami Rhythm Games Come To America; More

Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that runs down “byte-sized” pieces of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. There’s still a lot to get through with Amusement Expo 2026; later this week we’ll have our full review up, but until then, here’s a look at everything »

Alan-1 Introduces New “MirrorFX” Cabinets With Latest Atari Recharged Titles

Alan-1 Introduces New “MirrorFX” Cabinets With Latest Atari Recharged Titles

March 19, 2026, No Comments on Alan-1 Introduces New “MirrorFX” Cabinets With Latest Atari Recharged Titles

Amusement Expo 2026 has now wrapped up and with it, I’m back home and able to start distilling the news. We already covered a few new announcements and now we take a look at Alan-1 and their big reveals at the show. MirrorFX Brings An Old Idea Back To Life When I first made »

Chicken Jockey Comes To Minecraft Dungeons Arcade & Marvel: Contest of Champions Gets Series 3 Cards

Chicken Jockey Comes To Minecraft Dungeons Arcade & Marvel: Contest of Champions Gets Series 3 Cards

January 12, 2026, No Comments on Chicken Jockey Comes To Minecraft Dungeons Arcade & Marvel: Contest of Champions Gets Series 3 Cards

Raw Thrills has announced two new series of cards for a couple of their card vending arcade games, one for Minecraft Dungeons Arcade and the other for Marvel: Contest of Champions. Neither of these cards were at IAAPA, nor hinted at – until now. Let’s see what these are all about! The Chicken Jockey »

Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot/Arcade Goes On Test At Round1USA

Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot/Arcade Goes On Test At Round1USA

November 11, 2025, No Comments on Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot/Arcade Goes On Test At Round1USA

Back in July, the surprise story of the Summer broken by us was the quiet appearance of a Resident Evil 2 arcade lightgun shooter from Bandai Namco and Capcom on location test in the UK. Thanks to the game’s big name, it was quickly picked up by various other gaming news outlets, with the »

New On Test: Super Punch Mania (Konami), Putt It! Par-Tee (Sega Amusements)

New On Test: Super Punch Mania (Konami), Putt It! Par-Tee (Sega Amusements)

September 28, 2025, No Comments on New On Test: Super Punch Mania (Konami), Putt It! Par-Tee (Sega Amusements)

As the trade show season heats up, it’s not unusual for more and more new arcade games to show up on location test, and today we have two examples that recently appeared: Super Punch Mania by Konami, and Putt It! Par-Tee by Sega Amusements. Both are video redemption titles that are very physically involved »

Bandai Namco Officially Announces Biohazard RE:2 Arcade/Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot – Testing This Winter In The US

Bandai Namco Officially Announces Biohazard RE:2 Arcade/Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot – Testing This Winter In The US

September 27, 2025, No Comments on Bandai Namco Officially Announces Biohazard RE:2 Arcade/Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot – Testing This Winter In The US

This Summer, one of the biggest pieces of arcade news to emerge was the surprise appearance of a Resident Evil 2 arcade lightgun game from Bandai Namco that quietly showed up on test in the UK. After we were the first to report on it, numerous major gaming news outlets then gave the game »

exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Axel City 2: The Final Storm; Tests Chaos Code Next

exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Axel City 2: The Final Storm; Tests Chaos Code Next

September 26, 2025, No Comments on exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Axel City 2: The Final Storm; Tests Chaos Code Next

exA-Arcadia has been busy lately, and as we’ll discuss today, they aren’t slowing down any time soon. We recently reported on their test for Vanguard Princess R (which is performing well), and now they have another fighter on test and a fighter available to pre-order. Let’s check them out. Chaos Code Nemesis Experiment Testing »

exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Vanguard Princess R; Tests For Axel City 2: The Final Storm

exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Vanguard Princess R; Tests For Axel City 2: The Final Storm

September 16, 2025, No Comments on exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Vanguard Princess R; Tests For Axel City 2: The Final Storm

Trade shows have soaked up a bit of news lately, but they aren’t the only things to talk about in the arcade world. exA-Arcadia has a couple of fighting games to discuss, so let’s see what is going on with Vanguard Princess R and the major content update to Axel City 2. Vanguard Princess »

On Test From Raw Thrills: Godzilla Kaiju Wars [Non-VR]; Jackpot Racer

On Test From Raw Thrills: Godzilla Kaiju Wars [Non-VR]; Jackpot Racer

September 4, 2025, No Comments on On Test From Raw Thrills: Godzilla Kaiju Wars [Non-VR]; Jackpot Racer

With the start of the next big trade show season for the amusement industry edging closer, today we have got two games that have recently been seen on location test out in the arcade wilds, both from Raw Thrills. One is a new non-VR model for Godzilla Kaiju Wars, the other is a new »