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UPDATE: Bandai Namco NOT Halting Arcade Development
We’ve all heard the phrase: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Unfortunately exaggerated death reports of the arcade industry have existed in some form or another since the industry crash back in
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Star Wars Battle Pod Adding An Episode VII Stage This Summer
We’ve been speculating for a while now about additional content coming to Bandai Namco’s Star Wars Battle Pod. Given the success of the latest film installment, it only makes sense that the big new
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New Releases: The Hobbit Pinball; Galaga Assault
February generally isn’t a time where a lot of new releases take place in our business but that doesn’t keep them from ever happening. New Games For The Modern Arcade Market The Hobbit Pinball
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Newsbytes: Silverball City, 1996, Space Invaders Skill Slots
Happy weekend arcaders! News has begun to pile up finally so perhaps we are out of the doldrums of Winter…in that regard. Let’s get to it: Silverball City Coming To Johnson City, TN In April
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Bandai Namco Building A New Star Wars Battle Pod Location Directory
Today Bandai Namco Amusements sent out the following e-mail, looking for information on where to find Star Wars Battle Pod arcade games out ‘in the wild’: To owners of: Star Wars: Battle Pod and
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EAG 2016 Photo Round-Up – New Arcade Games
One of the first big stories that Arcade Heroes had ran shortly after the site had launched was about a big trade show that takes place in London every January. At the time it
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The Top 10 Arcade Heroes Videos of 2015
I recently mentioned in a post that I don’t care for most Top 10 lists. The “most” is aimed at lists which are arbitrary in nature, such as those ‘best games evar’ kinds of
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Newsbytes: Tekken 7 Fated Retribution; Skycurser; Museca
Hello all you fine arcaders out there, I hope you are having a great weekend. Let’s compile some arcade news! Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Announced (Thanks to CD ageS for the tip) – A new
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Round-Up Of The Latest Video Arcade Games Coming To The West (Early 2016)
The dust has settled on IAAPA 2015, the big industry trade show where the latest products and ideas for the US arcade market are shown off in all their glory. Since that is a
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IAAPA 2015 Recap #2: Point Blank X, Tekken 7, Ghostbusters, Pinball & More
There’s plenty more to talk about regarding IAAPA 2015, which event ended today. For Recap #1 and the new games to find there, click here. Continuing our chronological order of when I posted the
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Bandai Namco Unveils Real Drive At The Tokyo Motor Show
Happy Back To the Future Day – a day where we look at the present with more nostalgia for the 80s, when the ambition was more ‘a spaceship in every home’ than ‘a computer
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Star Wars Battle Pod Flat Screen Edition Trailer
I recently mentioned that the standard or “Flat Screen Edition” of Bandai Namco/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Battle Pod is available worldwide, allowing venues that do not have the capital necessary for the Deluxe Pod version
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