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Sega News Follow-Up
[via Inter Play] “Video games on show at the distributor day included Primeval Hunt, a two-player dinosaur hunt and shooting game, Shoot This Win This, which will be showcased at UK show Preview, Let’s Go Jungle Special, an adaptation of the original game, and Race TV, which will launch at ATEI 2008.” I am »
Sega News
This is officially the best day so far for the Arcade Heroes. Justin Burke, the Marketing and Promotions Manager for Sega Amusements Europe got in contact with me today to tell me about thier Distributors Day which they recently held and also to tell me of a few new Sega products to look out for »
What Are We Playing This Week……
As you can see our games playing is dedicated to one game only each. Bioshock is currently averaging 95% in reviews, so it goes without saying this is a hell of a game and deserves all my attention. As for Metroid…. well it’s Metroid for Christ’s sake! Shaggy -Metroid 3: Corruption (Wii) Twisted »
What Are We Playing This Week……
Shaggy -Liberator (Arcade) -Major Havoc (Arcade) -Resident Evil 4 (Wii) Twisted Supreme -Virtua Tennis 3 (360 & Arcade) -Guitar Hero 2 (PS2) -Puzzle League (DS) Nothing new, I’m just waiting for my Bioshock to arrive and for Halo 3 to come out! [Discuss on the Forum »
Mid-Atlantic Coin Op Show 2007
If anything is an indication of the popularity of arcades being on an upswing, it should be the amount of arcade shows that are occurring this year. There was the Funspot tournament, California Extreme, the Classic Gaming Expo and a few others. Now I stumbled across another event that is going to take place »
This week The Stinger Report takes a look at how the smoking ban in the UK is affecting the industry…… “Chaos and destruction were predicted for the British brewery and hospitality industry with the UK’s adoption of a Smoking Ban in public spaces. If this grim prediction were accurate, its impact should have been felt by »
Now Hiring…
For any of you arcade heads out there that want to get into the industry, and live in the Glen Ellyn IL area, then why not head over to Play Mechanix and check out the jobs section. Play Mechanix is seeking to fill the following positions: Online Arcade Game System Manager Linux System Administrator »
State of Amusement Coverage – Arcade Heroes Exclusive Commentary
Well the question has been posed on a number of forums and emails following the Play Value “The Death of Arcades” shambolic video, “Why do consumer game journalists hate arcade so much?” I have had to write a number of rebuttals to inaccurate or plain wrong features about the amusement industry and have noticed »
What We Are Playing This Week……
I have been playing a lot of Pro Evo 6 recently in anticipation of the latest yearly update. Which reminds me, what happened to PES arcade, I have not seen one out in the wild yet? Twisted Supreme – Pro Evo 6 (360– Pac Man C.E. (XBLA)– Puzzle League (DS) Shaggy(updated) – Tapper (Arcade) – Wizard »
2nd edition of Arcade & Pinball World Records book now available
Twin Galaxies has announced the 2nd edition of their book entitled ‘Twin Galaxies’ Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records’. It covers Arcades and Pinball machines only (which of course are totally dead according to certain experts), featuring not only high scores for many, many games but also bios for 265 of »
Death of the arcade being greatly exaggerated by mainstream game journalists
[Via Gametrailers via Arcade Renaissance] I caught this at Arcade Renaissance and I’m glad I did. Anytime we can debunk falsehoods that come from the mainstream gaming journalism world I’m happy to line up. Of course the level of incompetency you see in the video is just bad that it’s really not hard to »
Pics from this years California Extreme event!
(Photos Courtesy of Ataricade (www.ataricade.com)) The California Extreme(CAX) event has come and gone but with it are a ton of pics! Here we are reposting many pictures taken by user Ataricade (who runs an awesome Atari arcade related website). The event looks like it was a total success judging by not only the pictures »
