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Optimus Prime Returns To The Arcade In Transformers Shadows Rising
Way back at IAAPA 2016, I was given a very small hint about Sega Amusements’ next big project after Daytona Championship USA. All I was told is that it was a shooting game, later
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Newsbytes: Cosmotrons Update; Starwing Paradox; MyArcade; Amusement Expo 2018
Hello astute readers! It’s time for another update on what is going on out there in the wonderful world of arcades: Cosmotrons – Where Will The First Production Cabinet Go? If you follow
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Cosmotrons Update – Making A Fiberglass Arcade Cabinet
There aren’t many fans that I know of for old school fiberglass arcade cabinets but they do exist. Such designs were used in several instances throughout the 1970s, mainly by Atari but also by
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JAEPO 2018 Day 2 – More Arcade Goodness From Japan
Thanks to a spy named Charlie, we have more direct photos and footage from JAEPO 2018 today and don’t have to rely almost exclusively on Twitter for news. That said, we’ll still have some
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JAEPO 2018 Part I – New Arcade Games Coming From Japan
Welcome to the first of various JAEPO 2018 threads. These may be a bit of a hodge podge of content, most of what I am seeing from the show coming via Twitter as Japanese
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Dave & Busters Officially Rolls Out Tomb Raider Arcade
Mentioned the other day on the blog, certain undisclosed Dave & Busters locations began to receive Tomb Raider arcade machines. Designed by Adrenaline Amusements, the game cabinet was based upon the recently launched Rabbids
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ExA-Arcadia To Introduce New Kit System At JAEPO 2018
Conversion kits were the bread & butter of the arcade industry around 1984 when operators already had more cabinets than they really wanted to deal with. With the introduction of the JAMMA wiring standard
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Rabbids Hollywood Released As Tomb Raider Comes To Dave & Busters
UPDATE: Dave & Busters officially rolls out Tomb Raider Arcade. Click here for details. Last year right before IAAPA 2017, we found out that Canadian based game maker Adrenaline Amusements was working on not
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JAEPO 2018 Preview: Upcoming Titles From Sega, Namco, Taito, Konami & More
It’s trade show week and that means that we’ve got JAEPO 2018, the big Japanese arcade expo, approaching fast. Fortunately, many Japanese companies like to create special webpages that tout the games that will
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Bandai Namco Resurrecting The Shoot Away Series With Shoot Away Pro
After a fairly mellow 2017, the Japanese arcade industry seems to have awoken from their slumber as we’re just getting hit with news left and right. Not complaining, just observing. 😉 Shoot Away –
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