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GENDA Acquires Player One Amusement Group
We’ve got some “inside baseball” news for the industry today, but it is an interesting development from both the distribution and operations sides of things – let’s discuss GENDA’s latest moves into the US
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Location Watch March 2025: New Arcades Open For Business
Welcome to Location Watch, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that tracks the opening of new arcade venues from around the globe. Country does not matter – we try to cover
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GENDA Makes A Major Move In The US Arcade Market With The Acquisition of NEN
Japanese arcade owners GENDA are now poised to become a major player in the US market, as they are set to acquire one of the largest arcade operation networks in the USA. Let’s dive
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State of the Industry & Arcade Year-In-Review 2023
It is time to look back at the year and see where we’re at as an industry, with this Arcade Year-In-Review 2023 and ‘State of the Industry’ report. I’m harkening back to Play Meter
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Location Watch December 2023: New Arcades For The Holidays
Welcome to Location Watch, an occasional series of posts that focus on brand new arcade businesses that have opened their doors recently. We cover them from any part of the world, splitting the news
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Location Watch May 2023: New Arcade Businesses Open Their Doors Around The World
It’s been a spell since we last spoke about brand new arcade businesses opening their doors, the most recent post about the subject coming along in February. I was searching for venues in March
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Location Watch September 2022: New Arcades For The USA, UK, India, and Australia
Welcome to Location Watch, a semi-regular post that highlights the grand openings of new arcade locations. I endeavor to report on all that I can discover but sometimes I do overlook a place. If
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Newsbytes: Gundead On Test; Astro Ninja Man EXA Pre-Order; Playbox 4-player & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated look at arcade & pinball news from around the world and wrapped up into one post. Enter The Gungeon: House of the Gundead Testing At PAX West It sure
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Operating An Arcade: Game Purchasing Insights
So arcade news this month has been….slow, to put it nicely. I could perhaps be going back to the old days where I posted about every small bit of news as its own post
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Kevin Williams: GameWorks – The Slow Collapse Of The Dream!
Ending the year with a new guest post for the site, industry specialist Kevin Williams takes time to look back at the tempestuous history of Gameworks – when Hollywood came to arcades. He sent
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GENDA Gains Ground In US With Pac-Man Entertainment Acquisition
Arcade operation acquisitions have become a bit more frequent in recent times, with one of the most talked about being GENDA’s acquisition of Sega Japan’s operations last year. There was also a bit of
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The Future Of Sega Amusements International & The Sega Name In Arcades
UPDATE: Some minor fixes and more details have been added to the story. When the pandemic first began, it was anyone’s guess as to how deeply it would have affected the arcade industry –
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