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Arcade coverage coming to EDGE Magazine + Arcade Heroes Facebook page
Newsfeed 1053 via We’ve got a couple of things to cover for this post. First, The Stinger Report passes along this great news for spreading arcade news: Breaking Stinger News – Just as we went to the wire, KWP revealed that they have just finalized an agreement with the consumer game publication EDGE to »
Darius Burst Another Chronicle English Version First Look + More From Electrocoin UK Show
Newsfeed 1052 via Some months ago we revealed that Taito’s 4-player arcade exclusive shmup Darius Burst Another Chronicle game would in fact be making it outside of Japan with a special English version of the game and now thanks to The Stinger Report we have the visual proof as the game was shown off »
REVIEW: Dirty Drivin’ by Specular Interactive/Raw Thrills
DIRTY DRIVIN’ DEVELOPER: Specular Interactive PUBLISHER: Raw Thrills RELEASE: September 2011 TYPE: Racing PLAYERS: 1-8 (linked) HARDWARE: Custom PC based ARCADE EXCLUSIVE?: Yes RATING: Green – Suitable For All Ages SYNOPSIS: From the Specular Interactive Page about the game: It’s time to get dirty! Dirty Drivin’ is a high energy combat racing game that »
Editorial: Should Coin-Op Arcade Games be a part of E3?
E3 (i.e. Electronic Entertainment Expo) is upon us once again this next week, where gamers, journalists, developers, publishers and their “booth babes” come together to show off the latest, greatest video games people will enjoy later in the year for home consoles and PC – all minus arcade games. The event is described by »
Geek out with TRON Pinball at the NW Pinball & Gameroom Show
(Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the tip) Each year there are several pinball game shows for fans and collectors alike to attend, where you can experience hundreds of games in one spot for a weekend. The latest is the Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show, taking place at the Seattle Center from tomorrow, June 3rd »
Namco releases Dragonball Zenkai Battle Royale in Japan
Newsfeed 1046 via Dragonball Zenkai Battle Royale is the latest arcade release from Namco Bandai in Japan and I wonder if they are building up a whole class of new “Battle Royale” games. First there was Pac-Man Battle Royale and now this. Perhaps next we’ll have Time Crisis or Starblade Battle Royale (yeah, another »
Darius Burst Another Chronicle’s widescreen makes it into Guinness
(Thanks to Bryan for the tip) World records are found on pretty much everything these days, and arcades are no exception. And we’re not just talking about high scores either, although for the most part high scores are tracked mostly with classic titles. The latest arcade title to gain a “world record” has nothing »
From the makers of H2Overdrive comes Dirty Drivin’
First they gave us a spiritual successor to Hydro Thunder and now Specular Interactive and Raw Thrills are testing out a new racing title that leans in the Offroad Thunder direction(or as the person who made the videos below suggested, Blizzard’s Rock N’ Roll Racing) – a new arcade racer called Dirty Drivin’. You »
PowerPutt LIVE 2012 coming next Spring
We haven’t had many new game announcements to discuss recently, even though a number of games are in-development as we speak. Most of the time announcements are made a short time before the game is to be released but there are exceptions to that rule. Here is one of those exceptions as Incredible Technologies »
Welcome to the Monday Morning Open Thread
We haven’t really done an ‘Open Thread’ before, where you talk about pretty much anything in the comments (still prefer arcade/pinball discussion) but today I feel like starting one, along with some various pieces of news. I meant to get to these at some point over the weekend but Monday mornings are good as »
Checking out Terminator Salvation’s new “Expert Mode”
One aspect of modern gaming that we have all become used to is the game update. We have come to expect them these days as issues are discovered in games and improvements are made, which is at least preferable to having a game broken forever (on the flipside the argument is all issues should »
Pinball news: Teaser videos for TRON Pinball; Wizard of Oz witch toy + more
Let’s kill a few birds with one stone here by combining a few bits of recent pinball news into one post. First, the one I’m a little surprised by – Stern hasn’t released anything quite like this previously. Being a teaser, it doesn’t show the new Tron game of course(which has already been seen »
