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Pinball is making the media rounds – coming soon to Modern Marvels
When I first saw the headline for this press release I thought that maybe Stern would be making a pin based upon Modern Marvels, which sent my head into thinking about how interesting that could be. I set myself up for something else though – as it turns out, the show Modern Marvels will »
Open Letter to the Amusement Trade by The Stinger Report
By Kevin Williams Open Letter To Amusement Trade (19/05/08) Reaction to Recent Media Coverage The Situation This open letter is being sent out to the trade regarding a disturbing situation which seems to be being ignored! We have seen over the last 48-hours a slew of online features that have attempted to bury the »
Pirates of the Caribbean Pinball featured on American Idol
You don’t see pinball very often in popular media these days so when it does show up, it catches you off guard, especially if it’s one of Stern’s newer pins. So when American Idol contestant Jason Castro was shown standing next to a Pirates of the Caribbean pinball machine while being interviewed, you can »
Friday Flashback – Sega Rally Championship
Here’s a little feature concerning older games which I hope to regularly update in weeks to come. Good, bad or ugly – if I find an old game interesting, you can bet it’ll end up here at some point. First up, Sega Rally Championship. Manufacturer: Sega Hardware: Sega Model 2A Year: 1995 Sometimes, I »
Sega's Spring Private Show Round Up (with more Rambo than you can shake a stick at)
Well we finally have a real look at Rambo with some direct screenshots, thanks to some coverage from several sources on a Sega Private Show that was held on the 16th of May. It looks like Rambo was quite popular and it looks awesome – no one can say that Rambo will be lacking »
Rambo has a flyer (cabinet shot and screenshot included)
(Click on the image above to enlarge it) AM-Net has posted a flyer for Sega’s latest light-gun extravaganza Rambo and it gives us a first look at both the cabinet and the game. The cabinet is a lot like the House of the Dead 4 Deluxe cabinet, as the guns are similar and the »
Big Buck Media event in San Francisco
Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix continue to make the rounds with Big Buck Hunter Pro Online and Big Buck Safari by showing it to the media. The latest event in San Francisco brought in representatives from MTV, 1UP and Gamasutra and more to try out BBS. I haven’t seen any articles written by these »
Exclusive: First footage from Dark Presence
The new fighter by indie developer Galloping Ghost has been in the works for quite sometime and until now they have only revealed a couple of screenshots from the game but now we have the first footage of the game in action. It only shows one level panning from side to side and no »
Sega's Mushi King makes a Guinness World Record
In some other news for Sega that is a bit mroe positive than the post below, one of their games has been certified with a Guinness world record. The game is primarily seen in Japan and there Sega has held 100,297 tournaments for the game which have taken place between May 2003 and November »
The Big Buck Bowl
As I mentioned in the last post, I went to my distributor today to talk about games and some options and one thing we talked about was Big Buck Hunter Online. I did have a chance to play this online a few weeks ago and I automatically saw the appeal – where the game »
IGS revealing new games at GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2008, will being releasing games in Latin America
When I went to ASI I was hoping to see something new from American Alpha, the US distributor of the Taiwan-based company, IGS. IGS has a particular flare for releasing games with 2D graphics and has some cool games that I would love to see officially released in the US such as Oriental Legend 2 »
More details on video game violence from Greater Good Magazine
Today I’ve heard a lot about GTAIV and people bringing up the subject again of violence in games and is it healthy or not and if games should be banned. I have a feeling we’ll be hearing about it for a little while longer where it will die down until the next violent event »
