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Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson IAAPA line-up announced with Big Buck World, new Frogger
The Raw Thrills/Play Mechanix/Betson group has unveiled their line-up of games for IAAPA and for anyone planning on heading to the show, you’ll have plenty to check out. While most of the games on
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PGM2 hardware gets some attention starting in December
Back in early 2008, Taiwan-based IGS released a new hardware platform called the PGM2. It was a JAMMA machine with excellent 2D capabilities, 4-player support and it accepted cartridges. They released one game with
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Friction debuting at IAAPA next week
We have been following the development of the independently made arcade title Friction for a couple of years now and I’m happy to pass along the latest information about the game, coming to us
Read More »Some Tekken Tag Tournament 2 in action
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is still months away from an arcade release but while you wait it can’t hurt to see the game in action as it was shown this past weekend at a
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Weekend news: RoadFighters Impressions, CEC earnings report, Namco game quiz
To start off our weekend, a few items to “cleanse the palette” with, especially if you are bored to death over the plethora of Microsoft Kinect coverage many game blogs are getting into right
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Mark your calendars: Arcade Heroes TV Live from IAAPA 2010
The biggest amusement show of the year, IAAPA, is less than two weeks away and in addition to our usual in-depth coverage of the show we are going to be webcasting live straight from
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How Konami’s new Reflec Beat works
Konami has a couple of music games they are launching today – first is one more people are already familiar with, a Microsoft Kinect launch title called Dance Masters and the other is a
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Ground Kontrol’s 8-bit Calavera art show
When you run an arcade, sometimes it helps to hold events to help bring new customers in or some old customers back and Ground Kontrol in Oregon, USA is doing something along those lines
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Two Let’s Go Island cabinets coming to IAAPA
Sega Amusements hasn’t kept Let’s Go Island as a big secret lately although they have kept one of the cabinet designs under wraps until now. We knew that they had at least two versions
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Halloween special: Zombies at the arcade!
(Updated: I ran this story back in 2010 but have given it some brushing up in 2013) If you are into video games at all, then you have likely noticed the big fad these
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Thoughts on TRON Night
Tonight Disney held a special event for TRON Legacy, by giving audiences a 23 min. preview of the upcoming film for free in select IMAX 3D theaters. Being a big TRON geek, I made
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