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First Look From GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2013 – Allied Tank Attack Unveiled + More
Yesterday marked the beginning of another amusement/arcade industry trade show, this time the annual GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2013, being held at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taiwan. I’m not sure how much
Read More »Exclusive: Pac-Man Battle Royale Tournament Upgrade Prototype Review
About a year after Namco released their popular Pac-Man Battle Royale to arcades, there was word out and about that they were testing an upgraded version of the game. There was no pictures or
Read More »From the DEAL 2013 Show in Dubai
The DEAL show has once again come and gone and thanks to Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, here’s a look at what was there. It usually appears to be similar in size to
Read More »Retro Arcade Postmortems from GDC
(Image via g4tv.com) The Game Developers Conference is a great place for “postmortems”, or where a developer looks back at the development process for a title that they worked on. Insight is given as
Read More »Namco To Open 200 Amusement Centers For Teenage Girls (UPDATED )
Update: Yes this was an April Fools joke. I had wanted to do another one again but that didn’t come together but fortunately Namco decided to do one. There is a notion about arcades/amusement
Read More »Amusement Expo 2013 Report #2: Dead Heat Riders, K.O. Drive, Avengers Premium Pinball, Speed Ball & More
In continuing coverage from the Amusement Expo 2013 event that took place this week in Las Vegas, here are some of the other games that were hanging out to be used and enjoyed. If
Read More »Amusement Expo 2013 Report #1 – Pac-Man Ticket Mania, Cars Arcade, Rock N Roll Verti-Go
It’s another year and thus another Spring amusement trade show has come and gone. The Amusement Expo 2013 was held from March 20th-22nd in Las Vegas, NV and with that we were there to
Read More »Nightly Newsblender: Nanotech Videmption; Gowe Music Video; MaKey MaKey Meets Frogger + More
Here’s another collection of arcade news for anyone up this late. Otherwise I guess its something to read for the morning. It seems like a long time ago that I ran a post about
Read More »Seen on Location Test USA: Namco’s Sonic Storm
First exclusive details about an upcoming arcade simulator title by Namco called Sonic Storm!
Read More »For the Weekend: The Origin of Shmups; NEO XYX Trailer; JAEPO News; Mario Kart loctest; Much More
I hope everyone is having a good weekend. When I first started to put this post together I was thinking there wasn’t much to discuss but it quickly snowballed into a larger post. There’s
Read More »Namco Formally Announces Mario Kart Arcade Grand Prix DX
Mario Kart heads to arcades for the third time and we've got the first details about it here
Read More »Flood Of News for JAEPO: Under Defeat HD+, DDR, Steel Chronicle Be, Lord of Vermillion 3, more
With EAG now past the next amusement trade show we look forward to is taking place in Japan called JAEPO 2013. This is a new trade show that is taking the place of JAMMA
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