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Stern Pinball has officially unveiled their latest and grandest design yet, taking Bethesda’s popular Fallout series and putting it under the pinball world of glass. I was fortunate enough to go to Chicago for the reveal time to check it out in-person, which will give you a much more detailed look at a new pinball [...]
Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the posts on Arcade Heroes that get you up to speed with small bytes of news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. After a spate of major stories at the start of this month, things have slowed down once again, but now that the end of summer and [...]
American Pinball has been through a bit of a ride in recent times, but with new ownership and capital, they’re looking to make a bigger impact than ever before. With this new vision, they are also pivoting from what they normally do, which has been mostly non-licensed, original themes, to creating something familiar – or [...]
As has been mentioned once or twice on the site, I have lately been very busy in working on my arcade history book. Silly me to think that the copy I had for the 1970s would just be a quick edit then off to the presses, as it’s been rather time consuming in getting it [...]
Let’s go into the weekend with an unexpected surprise. As the headline says, Asphalt 9 Legends Arcade DX Plus is now available in North America through LAI Games – we weren’t expecting this one until next month. We’ve also been waiting for news on a few other arcade racers throughout the summer, so it’s nice [...]
First shown at Amusement Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, and subsequently given a partial release worldwide*, Blue Motion Games have announced that their third release, John Wick: Continental Pursuit, is now available for all venues to get their hands on. John Wick In Arcades The asterisk above is for the caveat that back in May, [...]
We’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of a few different racing games that made their debut at Amusement Expo 2026, but due to various external circumstances, all of them have been delayed. That said, the first of the three, Disney Speedstorm Arcade by Adrenaline Amusements, is now available and shipping to locations who placed an [...]
As a part of the quiet Summer we’ve had has included news out of Alan-1. They had a large booth at Amusement Expo 2026 in Vegas, where they showed off three prototypes for games in the Atari Recharged series: Breakout, Caverns of Mars, and Yars Recharged. That was the last that we heard about them, [...]
Welcome to the “dog days of summer”, where as the weather starts to cool just slightly, we also enter a season with a little more arcade news. We do have a few stories that should go live this month, but as of this moment, they still aren’t ready to go yet, so let’s fill the [...]
Welcome to the July edition of Location Watch, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that curates all of the new openings in arcades that we can find from across the world. Today’s post keeps up the trend of these only being done bi-monthly so far this year, but the good thing about that [...]