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Power Putt Golf Preview

August 13, 2008, 1 Comment on Power Putt Golf Preview

We discussed the newest game by Incredible Technologies just the other day and already there is a video preview of the title up at Youtube. What is slightly unusual about this is the fact that many arcade games don’t get video footage straight from the companies releasing them before the game is released and »

An evening at EVO 2008 Championship Series

August 11, 2008, No Comments on An evening at EVO 2008 Championship Series

The EVO 2008 Championship Series has come and gone, being held in Las Vegas from the 8th-10th and one of our readers, Chris Ainsworth has kindly sent us a link to his page where he documented his evening at the fighting tourney. Capcom made quite a display of fighters, providing ten Viewlix cabinets for »

Hey Vulcan Wars, where have you been all this time? UPDATED

August 10, 2008, 1 Comment on Hey Vulcan Wars, where have you been all this time? UPDATED

Way back in September we reported on a new light-gun shooter by Atlus Japan called Vulcan Wars. It was shown at JAMMA 07 and even then there was very little info available on the game and since then the game had disappeared – until now as the game has shown up on a location »

Dark Presence schwag

August 9, 2008, No Comments on Dark Presence schwag

Remember that new fighter called Dark Presence which will feature digitized actors in HD and it will be coming out this year? We certainly do and we have the schwag to prove it. Galloping Ghost Productions kindly provided us with some Dark Presence related mechandise, including a couple of T-Shirts and some pin-on buttons. »

Big Buck Hunter Pro Online Tourney News

August 9, 2008, 1 Comment on Big Buck Hunter Pro Online Tourney News

Here is some brief news about the Big Buck Hunter tournaments currently going on. The Regional Qualifiers began yesterday and as a reminder are going until Sep. 7th. To enter one simply needs to make an account on a BBHPro Online machine and play. They also have announced the winners for the RamJam competition, »

Silver Strike Bowling Winners for May & June

August 9, 2008, No Comments on Silver Strike Bowling Winners for May & June

There have been a lot of official competitions being run by arcade developers lately and with those, winners to gather the prizes. First off is Silver Strike Bowling, which continues to hold competitions with monthly prize giveaways. According to IT, it shouldn’t be too hard to find an SSB09 in the US as there »

Batman Dark Knight Review

August 7, 2008, No Comments on Batman Dark Knight Review

This insanely indepth review of Batman Dark Knight is absolutely worth checking out. As well as detailing every feature of the game, there’s also some great pictures, although I think we posted these a while back. One of the cool things about Batman is that it uses a variety of actual action figures on the »

New Raw Thrills' game, NickToons Nitro Now Available

August 6, 2008, No Comments on New Raw Thrills' game, NickToons Nitro Now Available

Raw Thrills’, Betson & Chicago Gaming have just announced the release of their latest racing game, NickToons Nitro, which is a game we mentioned some time ago when I got my hands on an early flier. Since then, they have changed the cabinet design (and the flyer – I saw an ad for this »

Hey look, another new book on arcades!

August 4, 2008, No Comments on Hey look, another new book on arcades!

Just the other day I was talking about how there aren’t hordes of books about arcades written these days so naturally I have to come across some news about another book where arcades are the primary subject. This is making me want to write my own book about arcades but I’m not sure what »

Samurai Spirits Sen and KOF98 Ultimate Match now available

August 4, 2008, No Comments on Samurai Spirits Sen and KOF98 Ultimate Match now available

Fighter fans can now rejoice – two new fighters are now available for purchase, through at least two importing companies that I know of (and probably more), Legend Trading Company (update: I just noticed that the link isn’t working although this is the one I got in the e-mail, maybe the site is down »

Modern Marvels episode focuses on coin-op games including pinball

August 4, 2008, 1 Comment on Modern Marvels episode focuses on coin-op games including pinball

I remember reporting about this some time ago but admittedly I forgot about it afterwards – fortunately my dad told me that he recorded it on TiVO as he came but I haven’t had a chance to go over to his place and check it out. Since I have not seen the episode yet »

More DDRX details

August 4, 2008, No Comments on More DDRX details

BemaniStyle.com has some extra details on Konami’s latest entry in the DDR series, DDRX. Some features the game will include are an eAmusement card reader it also has USB ports and a dial not unlike what you find on an iPod. The combo system works similar to DDR ITG2 and of course the game »