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Newsblender : A Danish Arcade Up For An Award; INJUSTICE Arcade cabinet; Interview with Roger Hector of Atari/Sente

Newsblender : A Danish Arcade Up For An Award; INJUSTICE Arcade cabinet; Interview with Roger Hector of Atari/Sente

Adam April 23, 2013 2

Time for another blending of news items together into one post. It does a body good, every once in a while at least. About a year and a half ago an arcade opened up

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More Buildings Turned Into Giant Arcade Games

More Buildings Turned Into Giant Arcade Games

Adam April 19, 2013 0

Last week I caught a glimpse of a project down in the megalopolis, São Paulo Brazil that involved setting up a building there as an arcade game. It had “Paulista Invaders” setup on it

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VR Back In Arcades Now With The MocapGames Pod

VR Back In Arcades Now With The MocapGames Pod

Adam April 17, 2013 1

VR is finding its way back into the news more and more this year. We have had a little discussion about the Oculus Rift device which has been praised by numerous game developers. A

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Hunger For Amusement Proven At The Heart of Gaming In London, UK

Hunger For Amusement Proven At The Heart of Gaming In London, UK

Adam April 15, 2013 7

This past weekend was the grand opening of a new arcade in London. Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report / DNA Association was there and he snapped numerous pictures and wrote up this article

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The Swarm By GlobalVR

The Swarm By GlobalVR

Adam April 15, 2013 1

The Swarm by Buka & GlobalVR Released: February 2013 Players: 1-2 simultaneous Type: Mounted Light Gun Shooter Rating: Yellow for Animated Violence or Red for Life-Like Violence (operator selectable) Arcade Exclusive? : YES SYNOPSIS:

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Retro Arcade Postmortems from GDC

Retro Arcade Postmortems from GDC

Adam April 4, 2013 4

(Image via g4tv.com) The Game Developers Conference is a great place for “postmortems”, or where a developer looks back at the development process for a title that they worked on. Insight is given as

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Hardcore Gamers: What Do You Want To See In Arcades These Days?

Hardcore Gamers: What Do You Want To See In Arcades These Days?

Adam April 4, 2013 35

It wasn’t long ago we ran a little thought experiment on some potential idea for arcades and while this isn’t directly related to that, it is similar. At the recent Amusement Expo 2013 event,

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Eurogamer Looks At The Arcades Of The Future

Eurogamer Looks At The Arcades Of The Future

Adam April 3, 2013 5

Predicting the future is tricky business, as any of the doomsday predictors of 2012 might tell you. Sure the idea of a sister planet crashing into Earth was doomsday internet hit gold but it

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Namco To Open 200 Amusement Centers For Teenage Girls  (UPDATED )

Namco To Open 200 Amusement Centers For Teenage Girls (UPDATED )

Adam April 1, 2013 5

Update: Yes this was an April Fools joke. I had wanted to do another one again but that didn’t come together but fortunately Namco decided to do one. There is a notion about arcades/amusement

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Hurray Weekend: Speedy’s Repair Services, Arcades at GDC2013, Chuck E Cheese App + More

Hurray Weekend: Speedy’s Repair Services, Arcades at GDC2013, Chuck E Cheese App + More

Adam March 29, 2013 2

I’m not sure that there will be any important news to come along this weekend as Easter arrives (some places are already closed for the ‘Good Friday’ portion of it all), so perhaps this

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Amusement Expo 2013 Report #3 – Wrapping Up The Show In Pictures

Amusement Expo 2013 Report #3 – Wrapping Up The Show In Pictures

Adam March 27, 2013 2

Here’s the last report for Amusement Expo 2013. If you missed the previous reports which contained the videos, you can read them here: Report #1 / Report #2. This report will cover everything else,

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Location News USA:  D & K Arcade in IL; Maks Family Fun Center in TX; 3rd Round 1 USA opening soon;

Location News USA: D & K Arcade in IL; Maks Family Fun Center in TX; 3rd Round 1 USA opening soon;

Adam March 26, 2013 2

sometimes one thing that happens when I go for a trip is I fall behind on some things. This time, location news is one of them. Out of nowhere it seems that a few

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