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IAAPA Expo Europe 2022 Gets Underway
Amusements operators and manufacturers in Europe are descending upon London today as the 2022 European conference and expo by IAAPA gets underway. I am unable to attend myself but I have some proxies there
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Kevin Williams: London’s Amusement Renaissance
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes, industry specialist Kevin Williams is back and checking out the explosion of innovation and installation in a very crowded London entertainment and hospitality scene,
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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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The Future Amusement Landscape Of London Is Changing As Iconic FEC Will Close
In a special feature for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams, breaks the news of the closure of the latest London amusement space (NAMCO Funscape London), and views the state of the business
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EAG 2018 Round-up: New Arcade Content For Europe
While the IAAPA trade show tends to soak up most of the arcade news that’s out there, it is not the only amusement/arcade related event of it’s kind to find out there. Every January
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New Arcades: Violent City (London, UK); Bonus Round (Phoenix, AZ)
I always like starting the week off with some new location news and today it’s got a little bit of an international flare. Violent City Opens Under A New Location In London (Thanks to
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Taking a Look At the Trocadero in London, UK Before The End
Newsfeed 1348 via It’s been a pretty slow news week, which I will chalk up to post trade show doldrums. In case anyone is interested, I just posted a new montage video of arcade
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Hunger For Amusement Proven At The Heart of Gaming In London, UK
This past weekend was the grand opening of a new arcade in London. Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report / DNA Association was there and he snapped numerous pictures and wrote up this article
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Article: A Trip Through the London ‘Arcade Corridor’
A look at the current state of the arcade scene in London,
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Weekend Reads: Pokemon Game, Music video, Light-Gun Game Ban, DNA Seminar
UPDATE: Rebuttal piece to The Boston Globe on the violent arcade games issue added below It’s been a really slow news week but overall its seemed slow in other areas too, at my own
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London’s New Arcade – ‘Star Attraction- Family Fun Center’
Since the unexpected closure of the Funland at the Trocadero, that left a hole in the heart of many fans who spent time being entertained by their excellent selection of games there. Kevin Williams
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The Funland @ the Trocadero closes its doors, here’s why
The Trocadero is a well-known retail business center in London and one highlight of the location would certainly be the Funland facility there, home to many great arcade games as well as serving as
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