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Dance Core Location Tests Spread Across Asia
A short time ago I had noticed that Wahlap Technologies -producers of such arcade titles seen in the US recently such as Storm Racer, Power Truck and a couple of others – had a new dancing game they had released in China called Dance Core. I didn’t think much of it because as far »
Tiny News Bundle Of the Day: Loctest video of new Dodonpachi, yet another toddler in a crane
Combining two short stories into one, first, let’s start off with Dodonpachi Saidaioujou location test footage. Multiple videos are on this thread at Arcade Otaku but this one isn’t sideways. The game looks pretty sleek, there is a little slowdown at a few points but perhaps they will resolve that. One interesting thing is »
King of fighters XIII Climax testing in Japan this Sat/Sun
Much like Golden Tee, every year you can expect to see some sort of new King Of Fighters game for arcades and while they aren’t coming out with KOF14 quite yet, a new update is going to be close with the new King of Fighters XIII Climax. For the moment that is all to »
Namco’s New Dark Escape 3D on Location Test in Japan
UPDATE: We have the first look at the US version of the game here. Later this year Namco has a new horror-themed light-gun shooter on its way to arcades, similar to Deadstorm Pirates but with some twists of its own. We have covered it to some degree already but Namco has been fairly secretive »
Sega testing sequel to Card Gen; Wangan 4 out in Japan today
More arcade news from Japan today, first from Sega. This is an unusual case – originally back in 2009 Sega first debuted a new concept called Sega Card Gen MLB 2010 at a US trade show known as AMOA 2009. It was a baseball game that combined a touchscreen with specially designed baseball cards »
News from Japan: Namco Dark Escape 3D Details; Sega Maimai loctest; Konami Pop N’ Music 20 release
There were a few different arcade news items coming out of Japan today so I figured it would be useful to combine them into one post. Let’s start off with the quick stuff, both related to music gaming. Konami has released Pop N’ Music 20 Fantasia in Japan today, as per Andriasang. Being the »
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Location Test Update
Here’s an update for anyone close to the location tests on Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (as a reminder, The Next Level Arcade is no longer participating in that). On our Facebook page, a commentor said that the Fun Works in Honolulu has received their machine and it is playable now. ArcadeUFO has a rundown »
Your Five US Test Locations for Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Arcade
(Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Arcade as seen at a recent trade show in China) Newsfeed 1139 via We’ve know for a little while that Tekken Tag Tournament 2, which came out to Japanese arcades back in September this year, was going to get a location test or two in the US. As it turns »
New arcade puzzle game Magical Beat being tested in Japan
(Image via AM-Net Blog) Arcade puzzle games don’t come around too often these days although over the past year or so they seem to be popping up with a little more frequency with the likes of Tetris Giant and maybe Bejeweled. This latest title is being tested in Japan and is called Magical Beat »
Location Testing Darius Burst Another Chronicle
I have a confession to make. For the past week or so I’ve had Taito’s Darius Burst Another Chronicle sitting at my arcade on location test and I didn’t tell everyone about it. That was to give it the obligatory period to see how it did by itself without hype but now comes the »
From Australia: IKEA tests Manland; Insert Coin(s) retro arcade event a success
Newsfeeds 1110 & 1111 via Let’s start the week off with a couple of news items coming from the land down under, more specifically from the city of Sydney. First is an interesting development coming from the big store chain IKEA. They already have a space for kids to play while parents shop but »
Namco considering location testing Tekken Tag 2 in the US
(Thanks to ArcadeBelgium for retweeting this!) In an answer to a question from a fan today, Tekken producer Harada gave us some arcade news to talk about. The latest Tekken coming to market, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be released in Japan on the 14th of September but so far, there has been no »
