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The Best of Show Awards 2014 Announced by The Stinger Report & BMI Gaming
In 2011, two names that you see on this website fairly often, The Stinger Report and BMIGaming.com, came together to begin offering awards to the best arcade games found at IAAPA trade show in November. The awards are usually announced a few months after the event, with plaques presented to the winning company representatives »
Gunslinger Stratos 2 Playable At GDC 2014
Last year some surprising news came along that the Japanese and arcade exclusive title Gunslinger Stratos by Square Enix was going to make its first appearance in the United States at the 2013 Game Developers Conference. It was brought over to the West not by any manufacturer or distributor, but by Silicon Studios as »
JAEPO 2014 Day 1: New Games For Japan
JAEPO 2014 is here and with various Japanese arcade news sites on deck, we have a glimpse at the latest ideas to hit the market there. If you missed it, you can check out the JAEPO 2014 preview here. Day 2 media has been added here. Images are either via AM-NET or 4Gamer.net. Click »
JAEPO 2014 Preview: What To Expect From Namco, Sega, Konami, and Taito
The Japan Amusement Expo 2014 (JAEPO 2014) will be getting underway tomorrow and with that, new arcade games to talk about. Unlike most Western trade shows, the Japanese market likes to promote a majority of the games they will have on hand in advance, which is helpful to any of us that won’t be »
Random News: 3D Printer Hacked For 1 Player Air Hockey & Gundog Turns Into Silent Scope: Bone Eater
Two items that are pretty much unrelated here. First, the robot air hockey. Long ago when Arcade Heroes was still new, I posted about a robot system that allowed for some single player air hockey. The post is here but the video has been removed unfortunately. Jump forward six years later and here is »
Newsbag: Tough Coded Live ; Galloping Ghost Fundraiser; Sonic Arcade Game; JAEPO News
It has been a busy week for me, thus the few updates to the site here. This has been due to a partial move at my arcade – most arcades have a back room or office where dead games, parts and other assorted items are stashed away and I found out on Tuesday that »
New Screenshots From Play Mechanix’s Aliens Armageddon Arcade
A few weeks ago, Twitter was a bit busy over the news of a new game coming to home consoles based on the popular Fox franchise Aliens, a game called Aliens Isolation. While we don’t cover those games sites that cover the console sector are as abundant as gemstones at a swap meet, it »
Guilty Gear Xrd Sign Arcade Now Available In Japan
[Thanks to CD ageS for the tip] It’s been some time since we last heard of Arc System Works’ next installment of Guilty Gear, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, but as of today the game is available in Japan via Sega’s ALL.NET Pras Multi 2 arcade network (i.e., it can be downloaded direct to ALL.NET+2 »
Pics from the EAG Expo 2014
The first major arcade/amusement industry trade show of the year is now underway in London, UK called EAG Expo. When AH first started the event was called the ATEI Show but the results tend to be the same no matter the name of the event. Here are some pictures from the show, most of »
Poster For Konami’s Gundog Offers First Glimpse Of The Cabinet
Just a few weeks ago on Christmas Eve, we received news that Konami was testing out a brand new sniper arcade game in Japan called Gundog. From the descriptions it sounded like a follow-up to their popular but now 10+ years old Silent Scope game. The descriptions also indicated that it uses a transparent »
Dave & Busters Aiming To Open 7 New Stores in 2014
(Image from a D&B location in the Northwest, USA) There are not many big chains of arcades or FECs in the Western world but there are a few. One of those, Dave & Busters, has become quite well-known over the past several years and their ability to pick up many of the newest releases »
Bandai Namco Making Zombie Japanese Idol Light-Gun Game “Thrill Of The Night”
In addition to the new update to Deadstorm Pirates coming to Japan next month, there is another light-gun shooter in the works by Namco although this one really seems to fit into local tastes. It’s a little strange though and I wondered if it was a joke but we aren’t close to April Fools »
