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IAAPA 2018 Preview: Augmented/Mixed/Virtual Reality
For our arcade preview of IAAPA, click here. Ever since the Oculus Rift VR headset began making headlines around 2012, the amusement industry has had a little bit of an obsession with the tech. Our business is where VR tried, and failed, to get a foothold in the 1990’s and despite that setback, many »
Diving Deeper Into Team Play’s Spins Ahoy!
Spins Ahoy! is a new pirate-themed videmption game that we’ve mentioned on the site a couple of times now, starting back in the Spring when the game was spotted on test. Things have been quiet about it since on our end, but according to Team Play, the game has been enjoying strong (“phenomenal” was »
Games Not At IAAPA 2018: Cosmotrons; Exa-Arcadia; Oktoberfest; Racecraft; Step ManiaX; Tipsy Raccoons
While it could just be me, it feels like the run-up to IAAPA 2018 is the busiest I’ve ever experienced. There are a ton of products on their way, setting 2019 up to be quite the stellar year for arcades. Even though the IAAPA event is our version of “E3,” it is not the »
IAAPA 2018 Preview: Arcades
It’s that time of year again, not when we come together as families to give thanks and feast (that’s the week after), but to see what the latest, greatest and newest products that will grace the amusement business are. IAAPA is essentially the E3 of the amusement industry, but it has been around for »
New Arcades: Gamestate (NED); Lost Levels (CA); Colonial Soldier Arcade (NJ); Aunt Ethel’s (WI); The Pinball Dudes (FL) & More
While November tends to be a time of new game news, there are new venues opening their doors out there. Here are the latest new arcades to discuss: Gamestate: Winners Only (The Hague, Netherlands) A distinctly modern arcade experience has opened in The Netherlands, going by the name Gamestate. Arcades play a big role »
Attract Mode Videos For Slither.Io & Super Bikes 3
IAAPA 2018 is a little over a week from today, and per usual, expect to find plenty of videos from that event on our YouTube & Bitchute channels in the following weeks. Slither.io We’ll start with the videmption piece this time, as the video has sound. We first learned about this latest App-to-Arcade development »
Big Buck World Championships XI: And The Winners Are…
This past weekend was a bit one for Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills, as the companies hosted their biggest Big Buck Hunter Championship event to date. Taking place at the eSports Arena within the Las Vegas Luxor Hotel, plenty of space was available for contestants to duke it out using their virtual hunting skills. »
Halloween 2018: House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn; 20 Years of CarnEvil
Happy Halloween! With the spookiest holiday of the year upon us, arcades have plenty of ways to celebrate. Let’s get into it: House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn Sega Amusements is taking advantage of the fact that they have the perfect game to celebrate the day with. That title, of course, is the brand »
Newsbytes: Sugar Rush Arcade; More Pinball Expo News; Maximum Tune 6 Music;
Welcome to another exciting weekend of arcade news, although the news most people are going crazy about involves lottery jackpots. I don’t have anything like that to share here, so let’s get into the quick news items worthy of a mention. There Is A Sugar Rush Arcade Machine When Disney launched Wreck-It Ralph back »
Second Entry For American Pinball Is Oktoberfest: Pinball On Tap
Pinball Expo 2018 has been in full swing this week, and with the news you hear, one could call this the IAAPA or the E3 of pinball. A number of independent game makers show interesting one-off projects (like this black & white Twilight Zone machine), while the “big guns” in the business also like »
