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Happy National Arcade Day!
Today, April 8th, has been declared to be National Arcade Day. According to this page, it was set by LAI Games, although I’m not sure why today was picked as that day, as there
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Location Watch March 2026: The Latest Arcade Openings Across The World
Welcome to Location Watch, the series of posts on Arcade Heroes that compiles the most recent openings of new arcades all around the world. It’s been a couple months since the last one now,
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Amusement Expo 2026: The Full Rundown
Welcome to Arcade Heroes’ full rundown of Amusement Expo 2026. This was the most recent major trade show for amusements and arcades, held as always out in Las Vegas; ideally our complete coverage would’ve
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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune Ignition Detailed
It has been a long wait for Maximum Tune fans to see the next iteration of their favorite racing game hit the scene, but we’re in the home stretch as Bandai Namco has released
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Newsbytes: Resident Evil 2: Arcade On Test In Japan; Texas Pinball Festival; Konami Rhythm Games Come To America; More
Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that runs down “byte-sized” pieces of news from around the world of arcades and pinball. There’s still a lot to get through with
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Alan-1 Introduces New “MirrorFX” Cabinets With Latest Atari Recharged Titles
Amusement Expo 2026 has now wrapped up and with it, I’m back home and able to start distilling the news. We already covered a few new announcements and now we take a look at
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Blue Motion Games Unveils John Wick: Continental Pursuit Arcade Shooter At Amusement Expo 2026
The trade show portion of Amusement Expo 2026 has just got underway, and two companies are using the first day of the event to unveil their latest, big-name games. As mentioned in the headline,
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AVATAR LEGENDS: The Fighting Game Comes To Arcades First On exA-Arcadia
Amusement Expo 2026 is here, and we’re getting some big new game unveilings at the show again this year. This first one today is based on another big IP, and is one of two
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Amusement Expo 2026: The Main Preview
Welcome to our preview of all the big arcade names appearing at Amusement Expo 2026, which is set to kick off next week at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The main trade show side
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Amusement Source International Previews Amusement Expo 2026 Line-Up: Storm Rider X; Trick Pong; More
Next up in our previews for Amusement Expo 2026, we have Amusement Source International, distributors of many arcade games (mainly from Chinese factories) to North America. They showed up at IAAPA last November with
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