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More details on Namco’s Maximum Heat
Newsfeed 967 via We’ve already had some hands-on time with Namco’s latest racer, Dead Heat (see IAAPA coverage or search for Dead Heat here in case you missed it) but we haven’t seen much
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Konami fixes DDRX2 timing issues before US release
(Thanks to Phil for the tip!) When we recently saw the brand new Dance Dance revolution X2 machine at Betson’s IAAPA booth in Orlando, I caught a problem with the game on camera where
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New Dragonball Z arcade game + Chinatown Fair Arcade in the NYT
Newsfeed 963 via We’ve got two different stories to cover here with this Stinger newsfeed, first we’ll start off with a new game that was unveiled in Japan by Namco called Dragonball Zenkai Battle
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Who plays at the arcade in Japan and why? (UPDATED)
(UPDATED: thanks to one of our readers who translated a couple of the charts for us into English, they are posted below). Market data for the amusement industry is sometimes hard to come by,
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Sega jumping into the Chinese amusement market in 2011
Newsfeed 961 via As 2010 has unfolded before our very eyes, there is one trend in the worldwide amusement industry that we have seen gaining traction and that would be the development of new
Read More »Brief glimpse at Dark Presence in new video
The Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL has continued to make waves – from having several world records set at the location, to creating a cool Achievements system, to reaching over 1,000 Facebook fans
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Big Buck World released
We’ve known about it for a few months already but the latest installment to the popular Big Buck Hunter franchise, Big Buck World is now shipping according to BMI Gaming. That means that within
Read More »On this day of thanks…
Thanksgiving might be a US holiday and while we get both visitors and stories from all over the world, I see no problem in expressing some gratitude today before going out and having a
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More content announced for Taito’s NESICAxLIVE arcade; Haunted Museum 2 announced
Since Taito announced their new NESiCAxLIVE system for arcades, we’ve been eagerly waiting to see how it will work out. The release date for the system hasn’t arrived just yet (it’s only a few
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New arcade open in Austin, TX – Pinballz Arcade
This past Saturday a new entertainment venue opened up in Austin, Texas called Pinballz Arcade. As the name implies, they have a strong focus on pinball gaming (although it’s not the sole part of
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Andamiro teases next version of Pump It Up Fiesta at G-Star 2010
IAAPA wasn’t the only convention going on in the world recently where arcades had a place to show off. Another convention took place in South Korea this past weekend that wrapped up yesterday called
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IAAPA 2010: Microsoft Kinect integrated into legal arcade cabinet by Quasimoto Interactive
I have been able to upload my first video taken from IAAPA 2010 and the first thing I’ll share that was a big surprise at the show is Quasimoto Interactive’s Let’s Kinect coin-op cabinet.
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