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GameWorks Announces Half Price Holidays

December 19, 2007, 1 Comment on GameWorks Announces Half Price Holidays

If you live anywhere near a GameWorks entertainment facility then this is good news for you. Gameworks has issued a press release detailing their half-off special for the holidays, where players can go and enjoy the games and simulators that Gameworks offers for half-off the normal price Monday-Friday. They also are offering a deal »

Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week: T-MEK vs. Tokyo Wars

December 13, 2007, No Comments on Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week: T-MEK vs. Tokyo Wars

Hello all and welcome to the Arcade Heroes Battle of the Week! This is a new idea I just had and I think it would be fun to pit two arcade games against each other that share some similarities and see how they do against your votes! For the first week we have T-MEK »

Black Spiderman pinball machine released

December 13, 2007, No Comments on Black Spiderman pinball machine released

Stern Pinball issued a press release yesterday stating that the Black Spiderman pinball machine (that we first reported about in October) is now available in limited quantities. When they say limited, they really mean it – only 500 of these are being made. It’s the same game as other Spiderman pins – just with »

What Have We Been Playing This Week……

December 12, 2007, No Comments on What Have We Been Playing This Week……

Sara  -Spectrobes (DS) -Puzzle Quest (DS) -Lifesigns (DS) Shaggy -Tetris (Arcade) -King of Fighters 98 (Arcade) -Adventure 2 (Atari 5200) -The Orange Box: Half-Life 2 (Xbox 360) -Asteroids & Deluxe (XBLA) Twisted Supreme  -Call of Duty 4 (360) -Halo 3 (360) -Virtua Tennis 3 (360 & Arcade) -Sega Rally (360) -And soon to be »

Incredible Technologies hires more employees, acquires State Street Games

December 10, 2007, 1 Comment on Incredible Technologies hires more employees, acquires State Street Games

[Via CoinOPToday.com] Golden Tee developer IT (Incredible Technologies) has just hired on 7 new employees for it’s development staff and they also acquired a game developer known as State Street Games (renamed to IT West). So why does this matter to you? More games from IT, that’s why. Here are a couple of quote »

The largest MMOG makes it's way to arcades with Audition

December 10, 2007, 1 Comment on The largest MMOG makes it's way to arcades with Audition

When I heard the term ‘largest MMOG on the internet’ I first thought ‘World of Warcraft’ but I also noticed that it didn’t say MMORPG. So no, World of Warcraft is NOT coming to arcades but a game that boasts more than 50 million registered players (the 50 million is from China alone) is »

Game of the Year: The Results

December 9, 2007, 4 Comments on Game of the Year: The Results

So after a month of voting the results are in and the winner is a not a total surprise considering it’s following. Can you guess what it is yet? (yes I know I’ve given it away with the picture!) And the winner is………………… Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5! Following up closely in joint second are Global VR’s »

Blazing Angels Arcade by Global VR

December 6, 2007, No Comments on Blazing Angels Arcade by Global VR

[Discuss on the Forum] (Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge) Afterburner Climax, meet your competition. Then again the games are probably quite different as far as gameplay since AfterBurner is on-rails and this lets you fly around where you choose but this is the first plane fighting game that has hit arcades since »

What Have We Been Playing This Week….

December 5, 2007, No Comments on What Have We Been Playing This Week….

  Now you may notice an extra name on the post this week and that is because we have added a new member to the team. Sara has been tipping us for a while on simulator related news. So I thought it would be great to add another point of view to the Arcade Heroes’ team. She’s quite busy at the moment, but »

Editorial: 1 step to improve your arcade – Fix the games!

December 5, 2007, 9 Comments on Editorial: 1 step to improve your arcade – Fix the games!

Have you ever walked into an arcade, looking for your favorite game that you always play and once you find it plop in some quarters/tokens to find that one of the buttons don’t work? Or The joystick doesn’t work when pushed in a certain direction? Or maybe the sound doesn’t work? Sometimes you can »

Only One Week To Go! Vote Now For Your Game Of The Year!

December 1, 2007, 2 Comments on Only One Week To Go! Vote Now For Your Game Of The Year!

So seeing as we are coming up to our first birthday and as we creep closer and closer to have achieved 100,000 hits we thought what better way to celebrate than to hold a poll on your game of the year (released in the UK and/or North America). Granted it’s not the most original »

The Stinger Report #599 – IAAPA 07 coverage part I

November 29, 2007, No Comments on The Stinger Report #599 – IAAPA 07 coverage part I

The Stinger Report has released the first part of their IAAPA coverage and it is loaded with information pertaining to arcades and what the future holds for our industry. Certainly this is shaping up to be the best year we’ll see in amusement this decade. The report itself is quite long so I’ll work »