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What gives with the consumer game media (an open letter)

Shaggy August 22, 2008 0

Again from our friend Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, an open letter discussing the issue of the not-so-glowing coverage of the arcade industry in conventional game media: Why dose the consumer game media

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Post-Edinburgh Interactive Festival Report

Shaggy August 22, 2008 0

Previously we have discussed the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and how our friend Kevin Williams was going to present a seminar about the amusement industry to that show and now we have the details. He

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System16 gets an update

Shaggy August 21, 2008 0

A few years ago, before Arcade Heroes was around I got most of new game news from a great site called system16. Chances are, you are familiar with it too as it was an

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Need For Speed Carbon going dedicated

Shaggy August 20, 2008 0

Not too long ago, GlobalVr released a new drift racing arcade game called Need for Speed Carbon, which is based upon the console game of the same name. It was first sold only as

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More about BlazBlue (US release date & price)

Shaggy August 20, 2008 5

I had a a really good conversation with Harry at Arcsys yesterday in regards to BlazBlue and I figured that it would be worthwhile to pass some information along to you. They really are

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Crazy Climber coming to Wii

Shaggy August 20, 2008 0

Last year the somewhat well-known arcade classic Crazy Climber updated for the modern world and it was released in arcades in Japan. It didn’t receive any glowing reviews but that doesn’t stop them from

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ArcadeOtaku, a place to discuss Japanese arcade gaming and a Japanese arcade game blog

Shaggy August 18, 2008 0

I know that a few of you are familiar with the arcade gaming forum known as Killercabs and as such you might also be familiar with the fact that it has been done for

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Mini Arcade Cabs for kids in Korea

Shaggy August 18, 2008 3

[Image via the International Tae-Kwon Do Foundation of New Zealand (of all places)] I thought that I had posted about something like this a long time ago but after using the search engine I

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Soopa Coin-Up Bros DIY mini-arcade cabinet

Shaggy August 18, 2008 0

Here is an interesting DIY piece of art that allows you to design your own mini-arcade cabinet that is fairly similar to that Pac GentleMan artpiece we covered a while back. There are a

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Arc System campaign for BlazBlue to get it into as many arcades as possible

Shaggy August 17, 2008 1

[Thanks to Jared Rea for passing this along] Arc System Works’ wants their new arcade fighter BlazBlue to be a success and they mean it. So much so that they are asking for players

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On test: Pump It Up Jump!

Shaggy August 16, 2008 2

Thanks to IcePagoda for the tip! Andamiro is testing out a new version of Pump It up in Vancouver Washington, called Pump It Up Jump!, a dancing game for kids, as you can see

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BattleGear Update

Shaggy August 16, 2008 0

Not many details on this but what you’re seeing in the picture here is the new updated Battle Gear racing title. It looks like they took a page from the NASCAR Racing Deluxe that

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