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Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg

July 7, 2007, No Comments on Tron and Battlezone CG cabinets by Peter Hirschberg

This has been fairly slow week without a lot of news to post about but don’t worry, we’re still here. I’ll put this post into a ‘time waster’ category but a cool time waster nonetheless (for you classic gamers anyways). Very nice 3D animation of the BattleZone and Tron arcade cabinets by Peter Hirschberg. »

Tron and Prince of Persia Coming to XBLA

April 19, 2007, No Comments on Tron and Prince of Persia Coming to XBLA

  Two new entries appeared on the ESRB’s updated list today, which sound like additional Xbox Live Arcade titles. Prince of Persia has been rumored to come to the Xbox 360 sometime and somewhat confirming this rumor is a listing for Prince of Persia Classic with Ubisoft as the publisher. Probably more left wing »

Retronauts talk Arcade

February 8, 2007, No Comments on Retronauts talk Arcade

One of my favourite podcasts, Retronauts, based thier latest discussion (1/2/07) on the American arcade, past and present. It makes for an interesting listen, although I do think that they were a bit negative on today’s modern arcade »

Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World

Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World

July 31, 2025, No Comments on Location Watch July 2025: New Arcades Open For Business Across The World

Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites like RePlay »

New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More

New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More

July 27, 2025, No Comments on New Arcade Releases From East To West – UNIS, Ace, Superwing & More

We’re a little ways past the Chinese amusement trade show AAA 2025, and the question that always comes with the new games shown at events like it is whether they will come out West. As it turns out, quite a few should be doing just that, although as a disclaimer, some of these remain »

Taking A Close Look At Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot On Test

Taking A Close Look At Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot On Test

July 22, 2025, No Comments on Taking A Close Look At Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot On Test

Last week, we were the first to break the news that Bandai Namco were testing out a brand new Resident Evil 2 Remake-based arcade shooter, Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot. At that time, all there was to go off of was a single shot quietly posted to social media, but now there is considerably »

Sega Amusements Ships Alpha Ops VR Strike

Sega Amusements Ships Alpha Ops VR Strike

July 21, 2025, No Comments on Sega Amusements Ships Alpha Ops VR Strike

Arcade virtual reality is getting a shot in the arm again, as Sega Amusements have begun shipping their latest major release to use the technology – Alpha Ops VR Strike. We have the full details for this new VR on rails shooter below. Alpha Ops VR Strike – Background First unveiled as a prototype »

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

July 19, 2025, No Comments on Newsbytes: Bowl Expo Updates; Buckfest; JAWS 50th; Headlines & More

Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts which focus on quick news pieces from around the wonderful world of arcades & pinball. We generally aim to publish these on the weekend so that you have something to read about them. As mentioned before news has been slow in the dog days of Summer, »

Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)

Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)

July 16, 2025, No Comments on Location Test Mania: Resident Evil 2: Dead Shot (Capcom/Bandai Namco); Pop’n Music (Konami); Forklift Frenzy (Bay Tek)

While it’s been a slow news period for the summer, that doesn’t mean nothing is happening behind-the-scenes within the arcade world. We have three games on test to discuss today, known as “location tests” in arcade industry jargon. It’s our way of saying “beta test”, although in some instances a concept might be more »

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More

Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More

June 30, 2025, No Comments on Newsbytes: Bowl Expo 2025 Preview, Dave & Buster’s Leaderboard, Headlines & More

Welcome once again to Newsbytes, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that goes over byte-sized pieces of news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. There is a lot to get through from over the course of June, so let’s jump straight into it all with a preview for Bowl Expo 2025: Bowl »

NeoXperiences Launches New Immersive Reality Game Room Platforms – The Neo-One

NeoXperiences Launches New Immersive Reality Game Room Platforms – The Neo-One

June 28, 2025, No Comments on NeoXperiences Launches New Immersive Reality Game Room Platforms – The Neo-One

We’re slightly behind on this one, as one of these products has been available for several months, but let’s get you all up to speed on a pair of new Immersive Reality Rooms (IRRs) that were recently launched by a French company by the name of NeoXperiences. Who Are NeoXperiences? If you have been »

exA-Arcadia Announces Five New Titles At ShooterFes 2025

exA-Arcadia Announces Five New Titles At ShooterFes 2025

June 15, 2025, No Comments on exA-Arcadia Announces Five New Titles At ShooterFes 2025

The 2025 edition of ShooterFes, a yearly Japanese event that is specially focused on the “shoot ’em up” genre of games (also known as “shmup” or “STG;” I’ll use the latter in this article), has wrapped up and as usual, exA-Arcadia was there to offer up some gaming goodness and make some announcements. While »