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SlamBots in action
When I caught the news about a product called SlamBots on the latest Stinger Report, I was intrigued. I have personally thought about the application of robotics in coin-op games before but this is the first time I had heard of someone actually trying such an idea. To my astonishment, SlamBots (which made an »
Sega's Disney Dancing Card Game
What do you get if you cross one of Sega’s kids games, Disney and a dance mat. Well one of the above of course. I don’t know how well the kids games did over here and in America. But let’s be honest, how can this fail. It has the Disney IP and a dance mat for good »
The Stinger Report #599 – IAAPA 07 coverage part I
The Stinger Report has released the first part of their IAAPA coverage and it is loaded with information pertaining to arcades and what the future holds for our industry. Certainly this is shaping up to be the best year we’ll see in amusement this decade. The report itself is quite long so I’ll work »
Tekken 6 Officially Released In Japan
At last Namco has announced the start of the availability of Tekken 6. I’m impressed with how quickly this has come a long and also the ammount of videos of the location tests that having been popping up on You Tube. And thanks to the beady eyes of Arcade Renaissance we bring you the final one, so »
Namco getting ready to sue the pants off Voyager Arcade
See this cabinet above? It probably won’t be around much longer. If you are into arcades at all, you can’t surf the internet without running into one of these MAME-enabled cabinets that someone decided to put together in what is sometimes an authentic cabinet to resell off to anyone for a few thousand dollars/pounds. »
SquareEnix heats up Japanese card game scene with The Lord of Vermillion
It looks like coin-operated trading card RPG titles are here to stay (at least in Japan – it still remains to be seen how well these games will catch on overseas although reports say that testing is going well with these kinds of games) – there are at least two similar games I can »
Sea Wolf price and release
If you checked out the videos below from IAAPA 2007 thanks to Justin from Sega, you would have seen the first footage of the new video redemption game called Sea Wolf, based upon a classic Midway arcade title. It looks like the game is now available through at least one distributor, BHM Vending. The »
Virtua Fighter 5 Ver. D Details
[Via Arcade Renaissance] Sega has unveiled some details on the latest version of the VF5 arcade that is going to be coming out to challenge Tekken 6 in arcades. If you were hoping for something quite different than previous versions you may be a little disappointed although it will be slightly different than what »
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Confirmed for Wii
Now this one we all saw coming a mile off. I can picture it now in the Sega boardroom… So we’ve done Ghost Squad for Wii, what other lightgun arcade games can we port over to the Wii….. hmmmmmmmm? A bit of a no brainer really. Personally I’m really looking forward to this »
Wii Arcade Stick
For all those negative people out there that claim the arcade is dead, maybe they should keep in mind that every games consoles that comes out, ends up with an “arcade stick” peripheral, still the finest controller known to man (I’m not biased, honest). The latest being the Nintendo Wii. With all those great »
50 Tekken 6 videos
I am not going to post them all here but at least show you where you can find them. Youtube user feichunwong has been recording Tekken 6 videos like crazy from the Hong Kong location test and posted them en mass for all to see. Fixed video that was of TK5, thanks badoor. [Feichunwong’s »
Raw Thrills Signs Specular Interactive for New Arcade Game
SKOKIE, IL – November 9, 2007 – Raw Thrills, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of coin-operated arcade videogames, announced an agreement with premier development studio Specular Interactive, Inc. to create a premium coin-operated videogame for arcade. “Like Raw Thrills, Specular Interactive, led by arcade game design legend Steve Ranck, has a proven team »
