Namco »
The Current Home Arcade Landscape
Rushing towards Black Friday and the holidays, and we see a perfusion of retro-mini arcade cabinets hitting the shelves. Friend-of-the-site, and trend specialist Kevin Williams looks at a selection of the releases hoping to
Read More »Bandai Namco Unveils New Cabinet For Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield II
I’m a sucker for mech games, and I think it’s unfortunate that we’ve had almost nothing in the genre in Western arcades. There was Mechwarrior 4 for Tsunami Tsumo cabinets, but that was about
Read More »ICE Launches New Home-Focused Arcade Product Line, ARCADE PRO
[I meant to post this much earlier, but working on my second location got a bit ahead of me today] It’s an age of change and adaptation, which has been a concern for companies
Read More »Over-The-Hill – Pac-Man Turns 40 Today
Back during the “Console Wars” of the ’80s & ’90s, big game consoles were known for their “mascots,” a game with a protagonist that served as the face of a particular console and brand.
Read More »Arcade Flyers Worth Admiring
I just realized that I haven’t had a post run for a few days on the blog, and while there isn’t much news that isn’t related to The Thing Which Shall Not Be Named,
Read More »JAEPO 2020 News: New Arcade Games From Sega, Konami & Taito
It’s February, and these days that means it’s JAEPO time. JAEPO is the Japan Amusement Expo and with this event, we get a deluge of news from the arcade sector that is based out
Read More »Newsbytes: Arcade & Pinball @ CES 2020; Arcade Sidekick & More
It’s 2020 and it’s time for our first Newsbytes of the year! If you’re new around here, this is where we take a look at some quick items from around the arcade world to
Read More »Arcade Anniversaries In 2020
With a new year and decade upon us, it’s time to alert everyone to some important anniversaries that will be coming along this year. We won’t cover every game celebrating a birthday in 2020,
Read More »Newsbytes: Pac-Man 40th; CarnEvil 21st & Other Milestones
Welcome to this rushed edition of Newsbytes, a collection of quick arcade-related news pieces that I try and post on Saturday. That didn’t work out thanks to a load of work that I had
Read More »Newsbytes: Pinball Hall of Fame & Bowl Expo; Scorbit; 90’s Namco & More
Hello everyone, and welcome to another fine edition of Newsbytes. Today will be a little focused on items from Bowl Expo, where I’ll alert you that I’m feeling a little more critical today than
Read More »Bandai Namco Revives Arcade Classics As LBE-VR Titles At New Location in Japan
I mentioned in the last post that we’d have another Location Based Entertainment Virtual Reality (LBE-VR for those that don’t want to spout that mouthful every time) piece to discuss today, and here we
Read More »Namco USA Arcade Operations Expanding & Re-branding As Pac-Man Entertainment
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in! h/t to The Stinger Report for sending it my way first) Among the news items that I overlooked at or following IAAPA, was this press release from
Read More »