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IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 4: exA-Arcadia, Indies, & More

IAAPA 2024 Wrap-Up Part 4: exA-Arcadia, Indies, & More

arcadehero December 16, 2024 0

Continuing with our IAAPA 2024 wrap-up, which will soon be completed once and for all, let’s take a look at more of the players within the industry that fit the video game side of

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Perfect Pour by DSM Arcade Preps To Launch In Early 2025

Perfect Pour by DSM Arcade Preps To Launch In Early 2025

arcadehero December 11, 2024 0

Not everything in the arcade world took place at IAAPA, although hang tight, we’re still working on compiling news for that to wrap it all up. Until then, let’s look at a game that

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New Trailer & Info For DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour

New Trailer & Info For DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour

arcadehero September 6, 2024 0

The bar/arcade scene is still quite vibrant, yet there aren’t a ton of new games out there for such locations to choose from. Retro sustains their gaming sides for the most part, but the

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BumbleBear Games Offers ZOMBEEZ: A Killer Queen Remix for Pre-Order

BumbleBear Games Offers ZOMBEEZ: A Killer Queen Remix for Pre-Order

arcadehero July 30, 2024 1

I’m back from CAX (click here to watch a tour – I will likely do a post about the event here soon) and that means its time to catch up on a little news

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Debuting At AEI23: Jousting Heroes

Debuting At AEI23: Jousting Heroes

arcadehero March 14, 2023 1

It looks like 2023 is shaping up to see the return of indie arcade games, and today’s story is about one that will debut at Amusement Expo 2023 in Las Vegas the last week

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Astro Crow Games Launches Throwback! Jai-Alai Heroes

Astro Crow Games Launches Throwback! Jai-Alai Heroes

arcadehero December 30, 2022 0

H/T to Joe at Indie Arcade Wave for this news. UPDATED ON FEB. 3RD, 2023 One issue with IAAPA is that there is so much going on that one can easily miss something as

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And the Winners of the #NoticeMe Game Jam Are…

And the Winners of the #NoticeMe Game Jam Are…

arcadehero April 12, 2022 3

I recently did a livestream to highlight – and judge- the top 10 entries of the #noticeMe Game Jam by Yoyo Games and Opera GX. If you missed the news, this was a competition

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Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use

Cosmotrons Now Available As A Kit Purchase For Commercial Or Home Use

arcadehero October 30, 2021 1

It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned the indie game Cosmotrons on the blog, but today there’s some news about it to share with you. Having launched in 2018, Cosmotrons takes the idea of

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Arcade Talk – April 2021

Arcade Talk – April 2021

arcadehero April 10, 2021 2

I really don’t like to have Newsbytes posts back-to-back, but this week has seen a sudden drought of arcade news. I have been chasing a few stories, but either some things aren’t ready yet

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Newsbytes: Mobile Suit Gundam Card Game; Space Out; Space Invaders AR & More

Newsbytes: Mobile Suit Gundam Card Game; Space Out; Space Invaders AR & More

arcadehero March 20, 2021 3

Welcome to another weekend, and with that, another Newsbytes. Let’s get to it! Mobile Suit Gundam: Arsenal Base Japan is well ahead of the West when it comes to card arcade games, although we’re

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Now Available: Nippon Marathon Turbo Hyper = Running on exA-Arcadia coin-op systems

Now Available: Nippon Marathon Turbo Hyper = Running on exA-Arcadia coin-op systems

arcadehero February 22, 2021 0

It’s been a fairly quiet February although between this and one other new game story that I’m working on, perhaps it’ll go out with a bang. We’ve detailed what the exA-Arcadia system is plenty

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Talking Indies With Indie Arcade Wave

Talking Indies With Indie Arcade Wave

arcadehero February 12, 2021 0

This week has been dead for arcade news, and I haven’t had the time to cook up an opinion piece or article, but I was able to Joe of Slackerz Inc. and Indie Arcade

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