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Arcade Aid updated, plus new arcade art exhibit in NYC
We’ve got two separate stories to start the week off with here first being a follow-up to part of the TRON Legacy viral marketing campaign. Remember Arcade Aid? It has been greatly updated to V2 and it now includes up to 167 titles for you to try and figure out, up 110 from the »
The Golden Tee at the bottom of the world
Here’s a palette cleanser to start the weekend of with – a story from Incredible Technologies about servicing a Golden Tee 2005 game found in one of the most unlikely of places for an arcade game – Antarctica. Specifically, the game is found in the rec room of McMurdo Station, the largest scientific base »
Official release announcement for Namco’s Dead Heat
While we talked about the release of Namco’s latest game, Dead Heat just a couple of posts ago, Namco America has an official announcement for the release that they would like to share. This includes details on game features, including the innovative “social networking” feature (which is not related to Facebook or Myspace). Dead »
Stinger Web Seminar on Interactive Attractions
Newsfeed 942 via If you have listened to the latest Arcade Heroes podcasts (which I need to start doing again) then you should already be familiar with Kevin Williams, director of KWP Limited whose expertise, insight and knowledge of the industry is unparalleled. Here is a new online seminar by Kevin on the FEC »
Teacher aiming to set DDR Endurance record for charity
Konami Europe has sent along a press release detailing an upcoming attempt by a school teacher to set a Guiness Book of World record on a Dance Dance Revolution X2 machine on October 23rd. He plans on playing for 13 hours, with the difficultly increasing every five hours. Beyond looking to set a record, »
Trailer for Sega Card Gen MLB 2010
There is one thing we have been waiting to see from Sega about their Sega Card Gen MLB game – a video of it in action. Had I made it to AMOA09 I could have captured some footage but I skipped that show in favor of IAAPA and Sega didn’t bring the game to »
Sega teases IAAPA line-up with several new games
The next big show to feature new arcade products, IAAPA, is a little over a month away and as we get closer to the event, companies are beginning to tease the products that they will be bringing along to the show. Sega has sent out a press release teasing their line-up of games and »
2010 Big Buck Hunter World Championships Results
This past weekend the Big Buck World Championships took place in Chicago and when the dust settled, players walked away with a total of $50,000 in prizes. Two of those players won $10,000 each, one for the Big Buck Hunter Pro Tournament and the other for the Big Buck Safari Tournament. Play Mechanix also »
The extra life pinball machines get in home game rooms
Newsfeed 940 via As video games have aged, the number of people who collect the old stuff has increased and we see more articles discussing the community behind the collecting. A strong collectors community exists behind pinball as well but they differ a little in helping drive new pinball sales on some level. Here »
Arcades at the FER Interazar 2010 show in Spain
Newsfeed 938 via The annual FER event in Spain may focus primarily on slot machines and other gambling devices but where many casinos have an arcade as a part of their facility, what better place to show off some coin-op games as a part of the event? Check them out below&# »
Sega posts improved profit projections
Sega Sammy Holdings yesterday revised its half and full year financial forecasts, and the good news for the company is that it has increased its projected profits. The full year figure is projected to be ¥37.5 billion (US$448.3 million), from the original forecast of ¥22 billion (US$263.9 million). The key driver behind the high »
A politician who likes video games, including arcades
We don’t dive into politics very often – only when necessary with stories that are generally on the negative side as some city/state/country goes off on a crusade to ban coin-op games for some stupid reason or another. It’s a hot political season in the US right now which means you might find that »
