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Location Watch October 2024: New Arcades Celebrate Grand Openings
Welcome to Location Watch, a regular series of posts that curates news about recent arcade business openings from around the world, into one place. Our last Location Watch is from August. Thanks to our
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LAI Games To Introduce Kaiju Rampage At IAAPA 2024
When I began researching the set up for IAAPA 2024, I was surprised to see that LAI Games would have a larger-than-usual presence this year. That alone was an indicator they were planning on
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UNIS Details New Video Releases: Neon Rush, Monster Kart, Dino Storm, Carnival Shot & More
A couple of weeks ago, we had a small preview on some new arcade games from UNIS that would soon be coming to Western shores. Now that we’re only three weeks away from IAAPA,
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New On Test: Alpha Ops VR Strike (Sega Amusements); Contra Burst (Konami)
As of today, we are exactly one month out from IAAPA 2024, where we get to see all of the new arcade games that are coming to the scene in 2025. In the run-up
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Recap: Wahlap Holds Successful E-Sport Champion Event
After our recent coverage on the GTI Asia China Expo 2024, there is another major arcade event that took place over in China – Wahlap E-Sport Championship 2024. Regular readers should be familiar with
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GoldStorm Pirates Goes Back On Test In The USA
Bandai Namco Amusement’s long-awaited sequel to their 2009 swashbuckling skeleton shooter, GoldStorm Pirates, has been on location test and in the works for a while by this point. Having first appeared here in the
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Raw Thrills Bringing New Chapters To Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR to IAAPA 2024?
We don’t often ask questions in the post headlines, that usually is clickbait, but I promise that my quest to avoid the curse of baiting continues apace here. That’s because I checked with Raw
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Newsbytes: Trade Show Updates (AAMA Gala 2024), Asteroids Recharged, RIP Shukuo Ishikawa, More
While it is unusual for a Newsbytes to be published outside of a weekend, it is still September while I type – assuming I can finish what Ted and others on the AH Discord
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Arcade Exclusive FixEight EXA LABEL Is Now Available For Pre-Order
The sixth title in exA-Arcadia’s “EXA LABEL” series is now available for arcades to order, this time the remake coming with Toaplan’s 1992 top-down run’n gun shooter, FixEight. Units ordered now will begin shipping
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Bay Tek Testing Two: ICEE Slush Rush & Battleship Bounce Off
It’s almost October (yes, already), which means more new games will start showing up on test out in the wild. Today, we have two games, both by Bay Tek Entertainment, which have been seen
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GTI Asia China Expo 2024 Day 3: More New Arcade Games In China
After a brief weekend break, here is our third and final day of coverage on the GTI Asia China Expo 2024, out of Guangzhou, China. Having now finished our round-ups of Wahlap, UNIS, and
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GTI Asia China Expo 2024 Day 1: Arcade Games In China
Trade show season 2024 is officially underway now, as the three-day GTI Asia China Expo 2024 held in Guangzhou, China kicked off on the 11th. With it comes a number of new arcade games
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