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Alan-1 Unveils Dr Pepper Soda Slam!
After months of rumors and teases, Alan-1 has officially announced that they have created a variation to their Soda Slam! arcade game that was released earlier this year, called Dr PepperTM SODA SLAM! Let’s
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Asia Game Festival 2025: Arcades At China’s CICF Expo
Though arcade news has been on the slower side out West as things still gear up for IAAPA next month, over in Asia there was recently a major gaming event that had some arcade
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New Arcade Game Updates: Gravitar: Recharged; Dino Dash; Balloon Fest; Wild Hunting
It has been a slow start to October, but as the month moves on, we will start getting more IAAPA news. We’ll break some of the first of that fast with several new arcade
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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