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Get Ready – California Extreme (CA) & Replay FX (PA) This Weekend
July is almost over (booooo!) and while this means we’ll soon be in the “dog days” of Summer, it also means that gamers on both the East and West coast of the United States have a place to make a pilgrimage to this weekend. East Coasters – ReplayFX Granted it is a bit more »
Preview: Cosmotrons Indie Arcade Game
We first found out about the up-and-coming indie arcade game by the name of Cosmotrons when it was seen at Midwest Gaming Classic event this past March. As development progressed for that title, the developers decided to take the game on tour. That tour began just two weeks ago and since I participated in »
Sega Japan Reveals SEGA World Drivers Championship 2018
Developers are always working on something new and in the case of Sega, you can usually assume that more than one arcade racing game is in development at the company. They have a long history of supporting the genre, at times offering a few different takes on driving styles at the same time (back »
Injustice: Gods Among Us Coming To Arcades Via Raw Thrills
We’ve lamented every once in a while about the state of arcade fighting games in the US. When a new fighter comes along in the arcade market, they almost always stick to the Japanese region, with the occasional Western arcade importing something for their patrons to enjoy. It is rare that the game does »
Newsbytes: Alien Covenant; G-Tickets; Grumpy Cat Photo Booth; Cosmotrons
Excepting the Nex Machina posting, it has been a fairly quiet week in arcade news. That said, we’ve got enough for this weekend to discuss. Alien Covenant Appearing At Some Dave & Busters Locations – Here’s What That’s About Earlier this week a couple of readers sent me pictures of a ‘new’ game that »
Sneak Peek: Nex Machina Death Machine Arcade In Cabinet Form
Last week we heard that Raw Thrills and Housemarque would officially be bringing their new Robotron-like (or spiritual sequel if you prefer) twin stick shooter Nex Machina to arcades. It has been quite a while since we’ve had anything like that from a major arcade game maker…I’m not sure if Smash TV would be »
New Locations: Rec Room (Toronto); Gatti’s Pizza (TX); GBGB (NY); Round1USA (NY)
It’s the last day of June so let’s check out some of the newest arcade businesses that have opened their doors out there. Cineplex Rec Room Now Open In Toronto The first location we’ll take a look at today is the opening of Cineplex’s Rec Room in Toronto. Cineplex owns various companies throughout Canada, »
‘Roids Aiming For A Limited Arcade Release This Summer
(Thanks to commentor Gus for alerting us to this) It’s a good time to be a fan of late 70s/early 80s Atari arcade titles. First we had the revelation a short while ago of the Gravitar-like Cosmotrons getting an arcade release and now it looks like the same treatment will be taking place with »
Confirmed: Nex Machina Coming To Arcades
We have been following the progress of the Eugene Jarvis and Housemarque collaboration since it was first announced. That collaboration turned out to be a Robotron 2084-like game by the name of Nex Machina. Nex was released last week to PCs and the Playstation 4 home console and has been earning some glowing reviews »
Taito Unveils Their VR Game Stage Line-up
All has been relatively quiet on the development front when it comes to former arcade powerhouse Taito, the number of said arcade games slowing to a trickle in recent times. In part that is due to their acquisition by Square Enix and some games being sold under the SE label but Taito has also »
Skycurser June 2017 Update Now Live
We have been following the progress of the independently made video arcade game Skycurser for a while now. If you were like me and bought one of the beta kits then you also have seen first hand how the game has progressed over time, with various gameplay adjustments & bug fixes to bring it »
Newsbytes: Heighway Pinball Shake-up; Firepower Pin Upgrade; Holy Grail; The Simpsons + More
Happy weekend to you all out there. With that comes another Newsbytes, our collection of arcade news from around the world. Andrew Heighway Leaves Heighway Pinball Let’s start with the biggest news first – something that could warrant it’s own post given the magnitude of what is going on. We have been following the »
