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Location Watch September 2023: The Latest Arcade Openings Around The World
Welcome to Location Watch, a 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 up
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Arcade News From The Tokyo Game Show 2023
(Thanks to Ted & ShouTime for some of the info below) The Tokyo Game Show 2023 event was held from the 21st-24th, just wrapping up yesterday. While the show is mainly focused on consoles
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Arcana Heart 3 Xtend Now Testing In Japan
The next 2D, 1v1 fighter headed to arcades is now testing in Japan and there’s some name recognition to this one out West – Arcana Heart 3 Love Max Six Stars!!!!!! Xtend – or
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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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New Arcade Games For Japan – JAEPO 2023 Round-Up
Since not everyone follows the site on Twitter or Discord, here’s a handy post to round up news from a trade show that just started in Japan, JAEPO. I had been hearing that this
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Newsbytes: Big Buck Hunter Championships XV; New Pokémon Ball Toss Game; & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. It’s been a little while since we last had one of these but enough stuff has come together for
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More Details For Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica & P-47 Aces Mk. II On exA-Arcadia
exA-Arcadia has made two big announcements for a pair of shoot ’em up games coming to their platform soon, with location tests happening in Japan over the next week. Both games are remakes of
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Location Watch March 2022: New Arcades Open In Japan, The USA, The UK, & Australia
Welcome to Location Watch, a post that looks at tracking the opening of new arcade locations around the globe. Since you the reader might be anywhere around the planet, hopefully one of these is
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Newsbytes: Japan Arcades Update; Deeproot Pinball Auction; Street Fighter 6 & House of the Dead Remake; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of news from around the arcade & pinball world. Stay tuned next week for Amusement Expo 2022 – while I don’t expect a deluge of new-new games appearing there,
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Newsbytes: Playable Pinball Coffee Table; Cleveland Gaming Classic ’22; NeoTRIS; ValoArena & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a post where I curate news from around the world of arcades & pinball for your weekend reading pleasure. Let’s start with something pinball: The Playable Pinball Coffee Table By Build
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GENDA-Owned Sega Arcades To Change Name To GiGO In Japan
UPDATE: I’m seeing a lot of bad reporting out there so I am updating this post to present the facts to those who don’t mind taking an extra moment to research. The Sega name
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Kevin Williams: Is The Sun Setting On Japanese Amusement?
In his occasional feature for Arcade Heroes, immersive amusement and attraction entertainment specialist Kevin Williams (KWP) looks at the major issues impacting the international amusement sector, particularly in regards to Japan and their current
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