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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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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 –
Read More »Namco USA Arcade Operations Sold Off As Covid Fallout Continues
It is no surprise – and probably won’t be for a while – that the effects of the covid-19 pandemic will have changed a lot about the arcade industry, along with pretty much every
Read More »Kevin Williams: The SEGA Situation
Let’s start the week with an opinion piece, where site friend and industry specialist Kevin Williams weighs in on what’s been happening with SEGA over in Japan. Take it away, Kevin: Opinion Piece: The
Read More »What Is Happening With The Sale Of Sega’s Arcade Business In Japan?
This story was exploding over the internet this morning, and unfortunately, I’ve been seeing a lot of comments on this that are incorrect or spreading the false idea that arcades are done in Japan
Read More »Sega Amusements Int’l Fully Re-Opens
The news cycle for the past few months has been a cycle of closures, indefinite closures, re-openings, & re-closures. It’s been a little hard to track it all, since every industry has been affected
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