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Newsbytes: Golden Tee 2026; Genda Americas; Rhythm Game Updates & Much More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that collects various recent pieces of news from around the arcade and pinball worlds into one digestible article. It’s been a little while
Read More »Bandai Namco Officially Announces Penlalive – New Arcade Rhythm Game
Back in late January, one of the first surprise location tests of the year to pop up was for a mysterious new arcade rhythm game by the name of “Penda Beats” from Bandai Namco.
Read More »New On Test: Super Punch Mania (Konami), Putt It! Par-Tee (Sega Amusements)
As the trade show season heats up, it’s not unusual for more and more new arcade games to show up on location test, and today we have two examples that recently appeared: Super Punch
Read More »exA-Arcadia Opens Pre-Orders For Axel City 2: The Final Storm; Tests Chaos Code Next
exA-Arcadia has been busy lately, and as we’ll discuss today, they aren’t slowing down any time soon. We recently reported on their test for Vanguard Princess R (which is performing well), and now they
Read More »Sega’s Maimai DX Starts Shipping Out Across The USA
The wait has lasted for more than a decade, but for US fans of Sega’s “washing machine game” from Japan, properly known as Maimai DX, that wait is at long last over. Since last
Read More »IAAPA Expo Europe 2025 Preview
The next major amusement industry trade show is in sight, as IAAPA Expo Europe is getting underway in Barcelona, Spain. Running across the rest of this week (with the hall floor open from the
Read More »Sega Amusements News: Paul Williams Steps Down As CEO; Company Grabs Speed Rider 4DX
It’s Friday, and to kick off the weekend, we have some news coming out of Sega Amusements International (SAI), the UK-based representation of Sega in arcades owned by their Kaizen Entertainment holdings company. Let’s
Read More »Stern Pinball Unveils Star Wars Fall of The Empire
As recently teased by the company, Stern Pinball is coming back to Star Wars, this time with a theme that is focused on the events from the Return of the Jedi. To help hype
Read More »GTI Asia China Expo 2025 Day 3: Rounding Off All The New Arcade Games In China
The GTI Asia China Expo 2025 is now over and done with, and so we come to our third and final day of coverage for it. As is tradition now, this part serves to
Read More »GTI Asia China Expo 2025 Day 2: More New Arcade Games In China From UNIS & Ace
Day 2 of GTI Asia China Expo 2025 has now came and gone, and with that we have got another look at some of the new arcade games that have been debuted at the
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