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It's fun to ignore facts (or how not to mention SFIV arcade in the US if you write for a game mag)

Shaggy April 11, 2008 13

To readers of this site, it’s no news that Capcom is looking to bring Street Fighter IV to the US. But this established fact seems to evade the mainstream gaming media, in particular GameInformer.

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What have we been playing…. or not in my case

Twisted Supreme April 10, 2008 3

As you can see Shaggy’s been a busy playing all sorts of great games at ASI, unfortunately I have had very little time to play games or do any posts for the website for

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Update on Sega Rally Arcade – not cancelled

Shaggy April 10, 2008 3

(Click on the images to enlarge) Despite the closure of the Sega studio in charge of creating racing titles for consoles, this title is still on track and is going through testing. To prove

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A Spy Hunter Homecoming

Shaggy April 8, 2008 0

For many of us that have played arcade games for years and years, there is probably a couple of machines that we created an attachment to as we would play them all the time.

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Tekken 6 on US location via The Stinger Report

Shaggy April 8, 2008 12

(Click on the thumbnails to enlarge) I had mentioned in my ASI reports that I had the opportunity to meet up with Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report during the show and after discussing

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Peter Hirschberg interviews Tron cabinet designer George Gomez

Shaggy April 7, 2008 0

If you’re a fan of classic arcade gaming you should find this interesting. Peter Hirschberg, the owner of the famous Luna City Arcade which is perhaps the finest home collection of arcades we’ve ever

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Starting an arcade of your own (Part 1)

Shaggy April 6, 2008 32

While I have been working on getting my own arcade started I have dealt with the problem where it is difficult to come by useful information on arcade business statistics. I know that many

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Brief 'my arcade' update and a new arcade blog

Shaggy April 4, 2008 1

It’s time for a brief update on my arcade and I hate to say that almost nothing has happened since my last post. It’s really infuriated me – I was told to expect signing

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Some news from games in Japan

Shaggy April 3, 2008 0

A bit of Japan news here (which as always we must keep in mind that something here may or may not show up outside of Japan although we always hope that it will), first

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ASI 2008 News Recap

Shaggy April 2, 2008 1

Just to help you in case you missed/overlooked anything, here is a recap of some of the news to come out of ASI this past week, either at the show or because of the

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Basketball sharpshooter!

Twisted Supreme April 1, 2008 0

I keep watching this over and over and I still think it’s fake. But how do you fake this! I’d like to see this guy play one where the hoop actually moves around! [Discuss

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Street Fighter IV continues it's record breaking trend

Shaggy April 1, 2008 0

I’m not sure how many location tests Street Fighter IV has had up to this point but either way it’s had numerous public appearances and each time the game gets a lot of positive

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