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DDRX2 location testing in East Hanover, NJ; Southend,UK

Shaggy August 25, 2010 5

I was starting to get a little anxious as it’s a much slower news cycle at the moment than usual but there is some welcome news coming our way via Bemanistyle.com with a report

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Are Glasses-free 3D TV's what the arcade industry needs?

Shaggy August 24, 2010 3

The past few days have been a news desert for arcades and so far today isn’t looking any different although I did find some interest in this story about Toshiba’s development of a new

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Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

Konami testing Space Agent in Japan, a new shooter that uses Augmented Reality

Shaggy August 20, 2010 0

The Am-Net Blog has pictures of the marketing materials for a new Konami light-gun game testing in Japan called Space Agent. The only info we have about it comes from the posted media, which

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Yoony’s Vulcan 4D blasts it’s way to arcades

Shaggy August 20, 2010 0

Newsfeed 905 via Korean-based game maker Yoony Electronic’s amazed us with their massive Vulcan-M chain-gun coin-op game and they already have a sequel of sorts ready to go for the arcade market. Vulcan 4D

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Street Fighter X Tekken could get a coin-op version after all

Shaggy August 19, 2010 1

Newsfeed 904 via This seems to be a new trend for Capcom these days, announcing a fighter with coin-op roots but only talking about a console version of that game until later when they

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Belrare's Pong Pong – a game for "lovers"

Shaggy August 19, 2010 0

There was a time when everyone in the arcade industry had a Pong-clone out on the market. In fact that’s how many companies got their start in the video game industry was by copying

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The Crazy Tale of a Sundance Cabinet

Shaggy August 18, 2010 5

A short time ago, a poster on the KLOV forums (a well-known forum for arcade collectors) made a significant arcade discovery on a website dedicated to taking pictures of abandoned man-made structures called ArtificialOwl.com.

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Namco’s Dead Heat in action

Shaggy August 17, 2010 11

While we have posted numerous details on Namco’s newest racing game Dead Heat, which is due out this fall, we haven’t seen any in-depth video of the actual game in action, until now. This

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Article: The Player — Japanese Queuing for Arcade!

Shaggy August 16, 2010 0

Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report has penned a new article just for us and this one takes a look at the growing interest in the amusement sector in Japan, despite the doom and

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Parent company of Intencity posts strong earnings

Shaggy August 16, 2010 2

Newsfeed 902 via For those unfamiliar with Intencity, it’s the amusement wing of Village Roadshow, an entertainment company based in Australia that deals with theme parks, cinema centers, music, DVDs and more. From the

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Test your tablecloth pulling skills with The Tablecloth Hour

Shaggy August 15, 2010 0

Last year Taito contributed a new game to the often quirky world of Japanese arcade games called Ultra Low Dining Table(scroll almost halfway down on the link for videos; it’s also pictured to the

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Castle Crashers The Arcade Game to be at PAX

Shaggy August 14, 2010 1

While scrolling fighters have all but disappeared in the arcade industry in recent years (with a few notable exceptions such as Oriental Legend 2, Justice League or Dynamite Deka EX), the genre has been

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