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Bandai Namco’s GoldStorm Pirates Disembarks Into Western Shores
After its initial release in Japan and overseas launch at IAAPA 2024 late last year, Bandai Namco have now finally confirmed that their latest pirate themed game, GoldStorm Pirates, is about to ship out
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exA-Arcadia Puts Daemon Bride exAGAIN & Jamjam’n Jelly EXALENTE Up For Pre-Order
While Summer often means a slowdown in new arcade game announcements and releases, that hasn’t been an exclusive phenomenon in recent years, thanks to companies whose business model allows them to release content at
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Konami Testing Out Dance Dance Revolution Stomp Arrows At Round1USA
The slow, quiet return of Konami into the US arcade market continues with another game on test, this one carrying the highest name profile of anything that the company has done in the US
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Food Fight Frenzy By Retro Arcade Remakes Is Available Now
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Retro Arcade Remakes, the creators of the Taito Ice Cold Beer Remake that has been on the market for a while now. Last year, they unveiled
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Raw Thrills Launches Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR Ultimate; Top Gun: Maverick
The wait is officially over, as the complete and “ultimate” version of Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR by Raw Thrills is now available for existing locations to grab for their machines. Let’s see what this
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Location Watch May 2025: The Latest Arcade Businesses To Open Their Doors Around The World
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the
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LAI Games Begins Testing Ubisoft All-Star VR
Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) declining from the heights of its second boom period. That doesn’t stop new pieces from appearing altogether, however, as
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Newsbytes: PlayX4 In South Korea, Raw Thrills Update, Konami Reshuffles & More
Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that runs through recent “bytes” of news around the wonderful world of arcade and pinball games. We usually try and launch these
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Alan-1 Launches Soda Slam!
Alan-1 has announced that they have begun shipping their third title, the enhanced version of DSM Arcade’s Perfect Pour, known as Soda Slam! Let’s take a look at what this is as units may
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PAC-MAN Celebrates 45 Years Of Dot Eating, Ghost Chasing Fun
If you were to pick a “mascot” for the arcade industry, the chances are that Namco’s PAC-MAN would win the polls of public opinion. Yes, there had been some basic characters that popped up
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exA-Arcadia Announces Data East’s Tattoo Assassins
Out of all the brand new arcade-exclusive fighting game announcements to be coming out of exA-Arcadia, all being made as part of the company’s appearance and exALive video streams from EVO Japan 2025, one
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EVO Japan 2025 Day 1: The Rumble Fish & Spectral Vs. Generation Back In Arcades Via exA-Arcadia
If you have been regularly reading the blog and watching some of the YouTube channel’s videos, it should come as no surprise that exA-Arcadia have been teasing several new game reveals for EVO Japan
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