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The 2009 Big Buck World Championships wrap-up (updated)
I received a couple of e-mails recently asking about details on how the 2009 Big Buck World Championships went down a couple of weeks ago but I hadn’t heard anything about it until today. You might recall that there were two national tournaments that occurred at the same time – one for BBHPro(the night »
Big Buck Hunter Pro iPhone app (with an arcade finder) UPDATED
While there have been many new games on the Apple iPhone which are conversions of an arcade game in some form or another, we have not seen many modern arcade ports to the platform. That is about to change with the release of Big Buck Hunter Pro for the iPhone by developer Super Happy »
More details unveiled on Namco's Dead Storm Pirates
(Thanks to reader kieranmay for the tip) We have already mentioned Namco’s upcoming light-gun title known as Dead Storm Pirates a couple of times but up until now we really haven’t seen much other than the game cabinet. Now thanks to a new update to Highway Games, we have a much more detailed look »
More info on the future of Super Street Fighter IV for arcades
Today Kotaku had a post regarding the possibility of the new Super Street Fighter IV getting an arcade release, stating how it would be easy to do so, if they really wanted to do it. Arcade industry consultant and AH contributor Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report enlightens us with some extra details on »
Skee-ball celebrating it's 100th anniversary at IAAPA this year
When IAAPA rolls around next month there will be plenty to celebrate in the amusement industry but one thing that is already catching some attention is the 100th anniversary of skee-ball, which will be receiving special honors at the show. Skee-ball has been a stalwart in the out-of-home entertainment sector since it was invented »
Arcade Heroes Podcast #9
Kevin Williams joins me again as we discuss the newest releases that AH has covered in the past couple of weeks, including discussions on Sega Racing Classic, the new gesture-motion sensing games that are in the works, a little bit of pinball discussion and most of the time we focus on what was seen »
A few more details on BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
The details continue to trickle out on the new BlazBlue update and there is one thing that is worth noting in this as we hear from AH contributor, Aaron Auzins: “Location testings in the Kansai and Kyushu regions of Japan: Osaka – Oct. 24-25 Fukuoka – Oct. 31-Nov. 1 This testing will mark the »
Arcade love at the VGXPO
AH contributor Aaron Auzins recently had the chance to attend the VGXPO in Philadelphia and here he discusses what kind of attention arcades got at the show. ——— “The previous weekend featured the annual Video Game eXPO (VGXPO) show in Philadelphia, marking the fifth straight year the consumer-based gaming culture show has been held. »
Konami releases GTI Club – Supermini Festa in Europe
Fans of Konami’s GTI Club can finally look forward to actually playing the game that was seen last January as Konami and Electrocoin demonstrated the final release version of the game, GTI Club – Supermini Festa at the FER Interazar exhibition in Madrid, Spain recently. As you can see above, the deluxe version varies »
Super Street Fighter IV *might* get an arcade release
Oh boy, here we go. I for one will not be putting a lot of faith into Capcom for this until we see it. For more perspectives, AH contributors Kevin Williams and Aaron Auzins weigh in on the possibilities, after the jump »
Game releases for this week: Twisted, BBH: Open Season, GT2010 and in Japan, Tank! Tank! Tank! (updated)
UPDATE: I forgot to add Golden Tee 2010 which was also released this week It’s been a little while since I did a “releases this week” post since news has been a little slow in that regard but this week there are a few titles that you can now start looking for in arcades, »
More details on Namco's new pirate-themed light-gun game "Dead Storm Pirates"
UPDATE: Thanks to Aaron Auzins for the correct translation of the game’s name. I knew pirates was at the end of that but wasn’t sure about the rest so it’s good to have a name in English to call it now. A short time ago we found out that Namco has a new pirate-themed »