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Flynn's Arcade Returning to Comic-Con next week

July 13, 2010, No Comments on Flynn's Arcade Returning to Comic-Con next week

Last year the TRON Legacy viral marketing campaign started off with a bang as they recreated (to an extent) the arcade from the movie TRON, Flynn’s Arcade, at Comic-Con 2009. In addition to a number of classic games being on hand for show attendees to revisit, they also featured Space Paranoids in an arcade »

Coin-op amusement industry predicted to exceed earnings of $10.5 billion in the US by 2015; $1.6 billion in Germany

July 11, 2010, 4 Comments on Coin-op amusement industry predicted to exceed earnings of $10.5 billion in the US by 2015; $1.6 billion in Germany

Newsfeed 861 via While obtaining earnings reports as well as earning expectations reports in the console and PC sides of the video game industry can be fairly easy, finding similar documents for coin-op amusement always proves to be a difficult task. Fortunately we have Global Industry Analysts, Inc. weighing in on coin-op for the »

Seen on location test: GRID Arcade by Sega Amusements Europe/Codemasters

June 23, 2010, 15 Comments on Seen on location test: GRID Arcade by Sega Amusements Europe/Codemasters

There is a new racing game set to enter the arcade market this year and this one is coming from Sega Amusements Europe and Codemasters.  It’s one console gamers may already be familiar with, GRID (or as it’s called on consoles Race Driver GRID). Thanks to a tipster who only calls himself Bill, we »

Arcade Heroes Podcast #15

June 16, 2010, 7 Comments on Arcade Heroes Podcast #15

Another month, another podcast. Here is the podcast for June where Kevin and I talk about E3, 3D applications in arcades, Open Day event, arcades opening and closing and more.I had to cut it short a little earlier than normal as towards the end I received a text and had to run off to »

Looking for work in the arcade game development field?

June 11, 2010, 2 Comments on Looking for work in the arcade game development field?

It has been a while since we have seen an arcade company post listings for new jobs (at least as far as I know) but one company has done just that today as they gear up on some unspecified new project. Raw Thrills’ (based out of Skokie, IL) is looking for both an Electronics »

Dave and Busters Announces the "Extreme Speed Sweepstakes"

June 9, 2010, No Comments on Dave and Busters Announces the "Extreme Speed Sweepstakes"

Arcade/restaurant chain Dave and Busters has announced a new sweepstakes which can land you free D&B Power Card or even a chance to win a “three-day, two-night trip for two to either the NASCAR AAA Texas 500 or the Red Bull Motocross of Nations!” Even if you don’t care for the trip, the chance »

Fliperama Brasil! (my look into a little part of the arcade scene in Brazil)

Fliperama Brasil! (my look into a little part of the arcade scene in Brazil)

June 9, 2010, 4 Comments on Fliperama Brasil! (my look into a little part of the arcade scene in Brazil)

I was in Brazil recently and while there I didn’t waste the opportunity to check out some arcades while I was visiting. The best places to look are malls, although you might find some machines hiding out in other places on occasion, such as a bar or strip mall but that is rare in »

Catching up a little more

June 3, 2010, 3 Comments on Catching up a little more

It’s still a couple more days before I will be home but I figure it’s better to still play catch up now where I have a chance. Thanks to The Stinger Report for the links, with the connection I have available it’s much more difficult to scour the net for news like I normally »

Kotaku, convenience and laser tag

May 16, 2010, 7 Comments on Kotaku, convenience and laser tag

With the continually growing popularity of home consoles, it’s often easy for the consumer gaming media to marginalise other types of gaming – be they tabletop games for the home or larger experiences, such as arcade gaming. Occasionally however, someone will speak up in defence of these other games. Recently, just such an incident »

Disney's 3D Ping Pong as seen at GTI Expo + a few more GTI pics

May 15, 2010, No Comments on Disney's 3D Ping Pong as seen at GTI Expo + a few more GTI pics

I know you are possibly sick of hearing about GTI by now but new things are trickling out that are noteworthy enough, so let’s get on with it! Thanks to Joe for the link to this collection of photos by David Liu. I’ll start out with commenting on the photo above – Disney’s 3D »

Arcade Heroes Podcast #14 : Arcade shows, game news and more with Kevin Williams

May 15, 2010, No Comments on Arcade Heroes Podcast #14 : Arcade shows, game news and more with Kevin Williams

We haven’t forgot about the podcast although I admit to slacking on it lately. It didn’t help that we had to start over on this one due to the program I was using to record it being shutdown by someone else towards the end of our attempt and the recording being lost. But we »

Pics from the show floor of DEAL 2010

May 14, 2010, 7 Comments on Pics from the show floor of DEAL 2010

Newsfeed 802 via While most of the attention towards expos has been going towards GTI lately, there was another expo that took place recently in Dubai that involved amusement products and that was the Dubai Entertainment Amusement & Leisure show or DEAL 2010 for short. Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report had the opportunity »