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Monday Variety Post: Reflect Beat goes Lime; Retro mini-cabs, New Arcade Book
“It’s all of your favorite hits with more variety”, variety being the radio code word for “you are going to hate most of the schlock we play with a few decent songs you actually like filling in the gaps”. But that’s for music on the radio which is not our specialty. Here’s what’s going »
Missing In Action: Run ‘N Gun Games
Given the recent slow news cycle, it’s given me some time to sit down and continue upon my editorial series I call “Missing In Action”. I take a look at a particular genre of games that used to have a strong presence in arcades but in recent times have gone to the wayside for »
Arcade coverage coming to EDGE Magazine + Arcade Heroes Facebook page
Newsfeed 1053 via We’ve got a couple of things to cover for this post. First, The Stinger Report passes along this great news for spreading arcade news: Breaking Stinger News – Just as we went to the wire, KWP revealed that they have just finalized an agreement with the consumer game publication EDGE to »
Darius Burst Another Chronicle English Version First Look + More From Electrocoin UK Show
Newsfeed 1052 via Some months ago we revealed that Taito’s 4-player arcade exclusive shmup Darius Burst Another Chronicle game would in fact be making it outside of Japan with a special English version of the game and now thanks to The Stinger Report we have the visual proof as the game was shown off »
REVIEW: Dirty Drivin’ by Specular Interactive/Raw Thrills
DIRTY DRIVIN’ DEVELOPER: Specular Interactive PUBLISHER: Raw Thrills RELEASE: September 2011 TYPE: Racing PLAYERS: 1-8 (linked) HARDWARE: Custom PC based ARCADE EXCLUSIVE?: Yes RATING: Green – Suitable For All Ages SYNOPSIS: From the Specular Interactive Page about the game: It’s time to get dirty! Dirty Drivin’ is a high energy combat racing game that »
Pile ‘O Links: Arcade Dominator, Interactive Billboards & Babycastles
I’ve had a few items of news I’ve been meaning to get to but didn’t find the time yesterday. So it’s another all-in-one post. I’ll start with the BabyCastles Arcade first. We’ve discussed what it is before and here’s a link to Engadget where they take a look at it. (Thanks to David Young »
Editorial: Should Coin-Op Arcade Games be a part of E3?
E3 (i.e. Electronic Entertainment Expo) is upon us once again this next week, where gamers, journalists, developers, publishers and their “booth babes” come together to show off the latest, greatest video games people will enjoy later in the year for home consoles and PC – all minus arcade games. The event is described by »
PowerPutt LIVE 2012 coming next Spring
We haven’t had many new game announcements to discuss recently, even though a number of games are in-development as we speak. Most of the time announcements are made a short time before the game is to be released but there are exceptions to that rule. Here is one of those exceptions as Incredible Technologies »
Classic Game Room tackles classic arcade games
(Thanks to IGO for the tip) The Classic Game Room is a large series of video reviews found on Youtube where these guys review games for any game system they can get their hands-on. It’s great as they expose some gems to people that might otherwise be lost to time. And while most of »
Welcome to the Monday Morning Open Thread
We haven’t really done an ‘Open Thread’ before, where you talk about pretty much anything in the comments (still prefer arcade/pinball discussion) but today I feel like starting one, along with some various pieces of news. I meant to get to these at some point over the weekend but Monday mornings are good as »
