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Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites like »
Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that runs through recent “bytes” of news around the wonderful world of arcade and pinball games. We usually try and launch these on a Saturday, but given the Memorial Day weekend and day that it was in the US, we held it »
Konami Releases Contra Burst To Round1USA
Late last year, word spread around in arcade circles about a brand new Contra video redemption game by Konami under the name of Contra Burst. This quietly appeared on location test at Round1USA‘s flagship Puente Hills Mall store, although all we had to go off of was a photo of it being set up »
Alan-1 Launches Soda Slam!
Alan-1 has announced that they have begun shipping their third title, the enhanced version of DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour, known as Soda Slam! Let’s take a look at what this is as units may start showing up soon at an FEC near you this summer. Soda Slam! – The Game Retro gamers will likely »
PAC-MAN Celebrates 45 Years Of Dot Eating, Ghost Chasing Fun
If you were to pick a “mascot” for the arcade industry, the chances are that Namco’s PAC-MAN would win the polls of public opinion. Yes, there had been some basic characters that popped up in some games here and there prior to the hungry yellow guy coming along, but none had quite supercharged the »
AAA 2025 Day 3: Rounding Up China’s New Arcade Games
Day 3 means the home stretch for our coverage of the AAA 2025 trade show in China, but it is going to be a long one, rounding up all the other, smaller names who attended the show. Those that had more major new titles on offer can all be found up top, with the »
AAA 2025 Day 2: More Arcade Games Debuting In China
Though the trade show may have ended, things are far from done here on Arcade Heroes with AAA 2025. This post is the second in three days’ worth of coverage for the expo; as their main new titles mostly have photo sharing bans, UNIS and Ace Amusement are being brought together here, both also »
exA-Arcadia Announces Data East’s Tattoo Assassins
Out of all the brand new arcade-exclusive fighting game announcements to be coming out of exA-Arcadia, all being made as part of the company’s appearance and exALive video streams from EVO Japan 2025, one was teased behind the scenes that seemed to likely hold the most interest for Western audiences. On its last day, »
EVO Japan 2025 Day 2: exA-Arcadia Revives Fallen Angels & Rabbit; Announces Blazing Strike AC
It’s time to look at the announcements made on day two of EVO Japan 2025 by exA-Arcadia, following the unveiling of The Rumble Fish 2 Nexus and Spectral Vs. Generation Chaos yesterday. Today, we have four fairly obscure fighters to chew on, ranging from never fully released rarities getting a second chance, to newer »
EVO Japan 2025 Day 1: The Rumble Fish & Spectral Vs. Generation Back In Arcades Via exA-Arcadia
If you have been regularly reading the blog and watching some of the YouTube channel’s videos, it should come as no surprise that exA-Arcadia have been teasing several new game reveals for EVO Japan 2025, the latest edition of Asia’s largest gathering of fighting game competitors and culture. That event’s first day is now »
