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Three Silver Strike Bowling players win big prizes in time for Thanksgiving
This was meant to have been posted on Thanksgiving (last Thursday for the US) but I overlooked the mail then but figured that even though I’m almost a week late, it’s still worth posting. Despite the state of the economy here and elsewhere, arcade companies continue to hold national online tournaments where players can »
Interview with Konami about GTI Club+
Konami is updating the original GTI Club for the Playstation 3 (the full name is GTI Club+ Rally Cote D’Azur) and releasing it over PSN as an exclusive title for the platform. It will play like the arcade original but with better graphics and a few other updates. In an interview with Philip Macdonald, »
Konami releases BeatmaniaIIDX Empress in Japan
[Via BemaniStyle.com] While most of our news the past few days has been about US arcade releases, they are still busy in Japan as well. Konami has released the latest addition to their Beatmania line-up, BeatmaniaIIDX Empress. As the name and banner above suggests, this title carries a bit more feminine theme to it »
IAAPA: Power Boat, Textminator, Sea Wolf, Tank Adventure, more misc stuff
PLEASE NOTE: This post has been updated to include new information from the show floor There’s more at IAAPA and first off here are some games from a company that used to be called iMotion but is now InJoy. While we had first posted a video for Power Boat quite a while ago, we »
IAAPA: Brick People, Hummer, Harley Davidson, Razing Storm, Nirin, more
Next up from the IAAPA floor today, Sega and Namco. As always, click on the thumbnails for a full view, thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report for sending us these pics. One big surprise from Sega is the game Brick People, which we first showed you a few weeks ago where it was testing in »
Pre-IAAPA thoughts and guesses
IAAPA is just a few days away and this is unfortunately one event I will not be able to go to. But we will have information pouring in straight from the floor as our friend Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report will be there and I also hope to be able to get some »
R-Tuned site reminds us that the game is coming soon
It’s been a little while since we heard something about R-Tuned but Sega’s latest arcade racer that seeks to overcome what happened with RaceTV is almost out in Japan and the teaser site has been upgraded to prepare for the game’s full release next month. We’ll see if Sega plans on bringing this one »
Jerad's Choice BBH Online Tourney
Sorry about the lack of updates the past few days – I’ve been busy, busy ,busy with the arcade and other things in life. It seems like when one machine breaks down they all decide to take a trip with it. I can just say at least most machines carry a 1 year warranty. »
DJ Max Technica coming to the US
(Thanks to Phil on the forums for the tip!) We first talked about DJ MAx Technica a few months ago but we had not heard anything about it since so I wasn’t sure what was going on with the game. But surprisingly, game blog site Joystiq (not well known for their arcade coverage, so »
Namco demonstrates a modded version of MaxiTune 3 that lets users play in a wheelchair
Now this is really cool – we’ve discussed how arcades have been made to be user-friendly for someone with a physical disability, and at least since SF Rush 2049 a lot of racers in arcades will automatically press the gas for the user at one point. But I have not seen a racer modified »
SFIV console & arcade version shows up together at event & more.
More SFIV goodness is out and about, first with a link to a video of SFIV producer Yoshinori Ono discussing the game (my gripe: he talks about how arcades in the Us & Europe are dead, as though SFIV could have no effect in helping recharge the the scene). Thanks to Juan for sending »
Outcome from the Big Buck Hunter Pro World Championship
I meant to get to this a couple of days ago but unfortunately I’ve been a little tied up and there is a lot of news to post all of the sudden. But that’s all right, a lot of news is better than little or no news. As you know, the Big Buck Hunter »
