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Amusement Expo 2010: Pac-Man Battle Royale Hands-on

Shaggy March 12, 2010 4

To begin our coverage of the 1st Amusement Expo which took place in Las Vegas, NV, I’ll start out with the Namco booth and work my way from there. Namco had a sizable booth

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Reminder: Amusement Expo this week, here's a preview

Shaggy March 9, 2010 4

This is just a quick reminder that the new combo show of the AMOA/AAMA, better known as the Amusement Expo takes place this week, with the convention beginning on  Wednesday and ending on Friday.

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Pentavision teasing DJ Max Technika 2

Shaggy March 6, 2010 1

via Pentavision is teasing their follow-up to their popular arcade music title DJ Max Technika with a new teaser site. The site doesn’t reveal anything about the game other than some colorful logos and

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Sega shows off the new Rambo cabinet

Shaggy March 6, 2010 5

As I mentioned yesterday, the upcoming Amusement Expo is certainly turning out to be the place where light-gun game fans have a lot to look forward to as nearly every company which produces coin-op

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Article: How video arcades are adapting to modern times

Shaggy March 6, 2010 0

For some years now, one argument has dominated the existence of coin-op arcade games in asking whether they are relevant in today’s world. Some sources say no; that arcades are dead and so unless

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More Sega news: in-depth look at Club Sega; new Shining Force Cross version; more Let's Go Island

Shaggy March 4, 2010 0

Via As a sort of follow-up to the news from Sega about their line-up at the Amusement Expo next week, we have several pieces of news about the company that we’ll just going to

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GlobalVR teams up with Sprint to offer custom NASCAR arcades for NASCAR events

Shaggy March 3, 2010 0

Via When I first played GlobalVR’s NASCAR a few years ago, I figured that it would only be a matter of time before the cabinets would somehow find their way into NASCAR venues and

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Sega announces Amusement Expo line-up: Let's Go Island cabinet, new Hummer and Rambo cabinets

Shaggy March 3, 2010 0

As we soon approach the Amusement Expo next week in Vegas, we are starting to hear about the games we will be seeing there and today Sega unveiled the games that they will feature

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Kevin Williams visits the Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx arcade art gallery

Shaggy March 2, 2010 3

We recently reported about a new art gallery that opened up in London that used arcade machines as part of the art and now Kevin Williams, editor of The Stinger Report has checkedit out

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Report from Street Fighter IV tournament @ Arcade UFO

HeavyElectricity February 27, 2010 2

At Arcade Heroes, we often say that there’s nothing like standing with another player and competing side by side, and arcade gaming is still the best way to do this. Technology has brought us

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Titan 4 Games licenses Silhouette for their first gesture-based coin-op game

Shaggy February 27, 2010 1

Via Remember Titan 4 Games? If not, I don’t blame you – we first reported that they were working on gesture-based (think Project Natal) coin-op games last October but since then we have heard

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Viral marketing for TRON Legacy continues to give some love to arcades

Shaggy February 26, 2010 3

I’ve always been a big fan of Tron so when it comes to developments of what is going on with the new TRON Legacy movie that comes out in December, I’m intently keeping tabs

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