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New Pump It Up TX cabinet debuting at IAAPA
The pre-IAAPA news keeps on rolling, now with news from Andamiro regarding their popular Pump It Up game series. The company has announced that they will be showcasing a new cabinet design at the expo, a configuration called “TX”. The TX model features a 50″ screen (it is not mentioned whether it’s plasma or »
Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson IAAPA line-up announced with Big Buck World, new Frogger
The Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson group has unveiled their line-up of games for IAAPA and for anyone planning on heading to the show, you’ll have plenty to check out. While most of the games on that list have been talked about here at Arcade Heroes, one title is certainly a surprise and that would be »
Friction debuting at IAAPA next week
We have been following the development of the independently made arcade title Friction for a couple of years now and I’m happy to pass along the latest information about the game, coming to us from Coast To Coast Entertainment. Before I get to that press release, here are some links to our previous coverage »
Weekend news: RoadFighters Impressions, CEC earnings report, Namco game quiz
To start off our weekend, a few items to “cleanse the palette” with, especially if you are bored to death over the plethora of Microsoft Kinect coverage many game blogs are getting into right now. First, make sure you read through our exclusive look at the behind-the-scenes work on Sega’s GRID Arcade. We rarely »
EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes – the making of GRID
Arcade Heroes is proud to bring you an exclusive behind the scenes report on the development of GRID! Please note that the video and many of the shots in this article are from the game’s testing phase, and may contain differences from the final version. Many thanks to Patrick Michael, Peter Harrison, Martin Wood, »
How Konami’s new Reflec Beat works
Konami has a couple of music games they are launching today – first is one more people are already familiar with, a Microsoft Kinect launch title called Dance Masters and the other is a coin-op arcade title called Reflec Beat. The latter is sticking to Japan/South Korea for the moment but who knows if »
Halloween special: Zombies at the arcade!
(Updated: I ran this story back in 2010 but have given it some brushing up in 2013) If you are into video games at all, then you have likely noticed the big fad these days, the fad of adding zombies to pretty much every game type imaginable. Some games are built specifically around zombies, »
DJ Max Technika 2 coming to IAAPA, US
We have known about the existence of Pentavision Global’s DJ Max Technika 2 game for some time now but it wasn’t 100% clear as to whether the game would be getting a US release or not. The first DJ Max Technika didn’t garner huge sales in the US but it did see big player »
Andamiro’s Chaka Chaka Don Don
Newsfeed 947 via Andamiro has a new game in the testing phase and it’s not a Pump It Up title. When you visit an Andamiro booth at any expo they generally have a virtual whack-a-mole game which use these soft hammers to hit the screen with as you play a variety of mini-games. Hammer »
Dance Dance Revolution X2 coming to the US in December
Betson Enterprises has just issued a press release and it holds good news for US DDR fans. Japanese players have been enjoying the latest iteration of DDR since July this year and come December, it will be officially released in the US. The game has seen extensive and “very successful” testing at an FEC »
The Golden Tee at the bottom of the world
Here’s a palette cleanser to start the weekend of with – a story from Incredible Technologies about servicing a Golden Tee 2005 game found in one of the most unlikely of places for an arcade game – Antarctica. Specifically, the game is found in the rec room of McMurdo Station, the largest scientific base »
Official release announcement for Namco’s Dead Heat
While we talked about the release of Namco’s latest game, Dead Heat just a couple of posts ago, Namco America has an official announcement for the release that they would like to share. This includes details on game features, including the innovative “social networking” feature (which is not related to Facebook or Myspace). Dead »
