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Retro Gamer #52 – King of Kong, Atari interviews and more
The new issue of UK publication Retro Gamer has hit newsagents, and it features a lot of interesting material for fans of classic arcade games. For fans of juicy gossip, the first port of
Read More »First footage of Taito's new Space Invaders: Beat The Attackers
We first saw Taito’s new Space Invader’s based redemption game at the Park Avenue Open Day in the UK a short time ago and now it has been seen on location at the Funland
Read More »My first impressions on Oriental Legend 2
I have to keep this fairly brief as I don’t have a lot of time but Oriental Legend 2 by IGS arrived the other day and I had a chance to set it up
Read More »Immersion Copr. invests into new startup called NanoTech Entertainment
You might be wondering why I am bringing this up as the names of these companies don’t sound familiar, but it is arcade related. Some time ago a company called Immersion Corporation signed an
Read More »Lord of Vermilion Release Ceremony at a Taito Game Station in Japan
We have known about Square Enix’s latest entry into the arcade market, The Lord of Vermilion for some time now and finally the game has been released in Japan. For those out of the
Read More »Atari's Sprint8/Indy 800 sort of returns with Konami's Motor X
(Click to enlarge) So there are quite a number of new arcade games in development this year and for whatever reason quite a few of them are racing games. Now the racer has been
Read More »BlazBlue on Japanese location test
BlazBlue is one of those fighting games which seems to have gotten a little lost in the shuffle – not surprising when you consider the big name fighters that have been announced and released
Read More »Surprise, people still play arcade games (my arcade update)
Well day one for my arcade (Tuesday) was slow. Slow enough that no one came! That was expected really as I don’t have much in the front to indicate what it is other than
Read More »The horror: Asteroids meets the shredder
No not THE Shredder, villainous foe of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but an actual industrial shredder that is good at well, shredding things. Unfortunately this is not the first time I have seen
Read More »My arcade update 6/6
Here is another update on my arcade, The Game Grid Arcade, sorry about the delays as I have been so busy trying to get everything put together that I easily forget to do a
Read More »"Caribounga!" – Play Mechanix hosting online tournament with BBHPro
[Via Betson] Fortunately it seems that not everyone on the development side of the industry thinks that it’s all down the tubes. Take Play Mechanix for example – not only have they created a
Read More »Chicago Trib: "Video arcades' last grasp" and my thoughts
[(Image via (Radio)Active)] The Chicago Tribune has posted an article on their site that takes a look at the ‘dying’ arcade industry, which in addition to the saddening story of an arcade operator in
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