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Raw Thrills to release Super Bikes 2 this September

Shaggy July 29, 2010 10

Newsfeed 885 via A short time ago when I heard about the creation of a new, smaller cabinet for Terminator Salvation (which we still haven’t been able to obtain any photos of) I also

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Taito bringing Darius back to arcades with Darius Burst Another Chronicle(Updated)

Shaggy July 27, 2010 7

Newsfeed 884 via It’s been a little over a week now since we learned that Taito had placed a new countdown webpage on the arcade side of their Japanese site, a countdown which at

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Taito's new Space Invaders themed game in Japan where button mashing = happiness

Shaggy July 19, 2010 0

Newsfeed 871 via While several other arcade classics have seen coin-op updates in recent times, including Sea Wolf, Elevator Action and Pac-Man, one glaring omission from the list is Taito’s Space Invaders. Taito has

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Sega's Giant Tetris gets a new, slightly-less-giant cabinet; HUMMER MDX released

Shaggy July 13, 2010 5

One of the nicer game surprises in recent memory was Sega’s release of Giant Tetris(or Tetris Giant – it can go either way) – Tetris with huge joysticks and giant blocks. The game could

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Flynn's Arcade Returning to Comic-Con next week

Shaggy July 13, 2010 0

Last year the TRON Legacy viral marketing campaign started off with a bang as they recreated (to an extent) the arcade from the movie TRON, Flynn’s Arcade, at Comic-Con 2009. In addition to a

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Banpresto's Wacky Races reappears on location test in Japan

Shaggy July 11, 2010 3

Chalk this up to the big surprise of the month (so far) but way back in 2007 a new kart-style racing game appeared on location test at the Trocadero in London called Wacky Races.

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Sega releases "Let's Go Kids Elephant Bus" in Japan

Shaggy July 8, 2010 1

Of all the current arcade game manufacturers, no one is more at the forefront of creating kids video titles than Sega is. That’s not to say that others aren’t trying but we are seeing

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SSFIV news for the day

Shaggy July 5, 2010 0

Newsfeed 857 via In case anyone was wondering how Super Street Fighter IV came to be considered for an arcade release, Kotaku has a few minor details on that. It’s nothing mind blowing so

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Metal Gear Arcade location testing in Japan next week

Shaggy July 4, 2010 0

Newsfeed 856 via We haven’t heard much about Konami’s Metal Gear Arcade since AOU2010 but next week players in Tokyo, Japan will have a chance to play the game as it’s on location test.

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A longer look at Blue Works' FORCE

Shaggy July 2, 2010 0

A short while back we covered a student project in Taiwan that set out to recreate an experience similar to Atari’s Warlords, but with modern graphics and a few changes to the formula. At

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Incredible Technologies reveals Golden Tee 2011

Shaggy July 1, 2010 0

If there is anything you can be absolutely sure of in the arcade industry, it’s that a new Golden Tee will make it’s way to the market near the end of each year. Incredible

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TRON Legacy viral campaign continues the arcade love with new Encom Arcade Postcards

Shaggy July 1, 2010 4

There is one movie coming out this year which is giving arcades plenty of attention and that is TRON Legacy. While it has been a little while since the last bit of viral marketing

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