The latest new for arcade games
Welcome to another edition of Location Watch, Arcade Heroes’ regular series of posts that collect the newest arcades that have opened their doors across the world. So far we have only done these every two months this year, with our last being from the end of March, but that means there is always plenty of [...]
It’s been a little while since we last heard anything about upcoming shooting games (STGs/shoot ’em ups/shmups) from exA-Arcadia, as they have recently focused more on their fighting game repertoire, but that all changes today. As part of this year’s ShootersFes 2026 event focused on the genre in Japan, they have now provided updates on [...]
Welcome to this month’s edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts here at Arcade Heroes that covers byte-sized pieces of news from around the worlds of arcades and pinball. We have a raft of stories on rhythm games in particular today (centered on South Korea’s PlayX4 2026 show), as well as a bit on the [...]
It seems like it was just yesterday that we were discussing Stern Pinball’s latest release, Pokémon, but time flies when you’re having fun I suppose. After a little teasing, Stern has unveiled their next major release of 2026, Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. Let’s take a look: A New Transformers Pinball If you’ve been [...]
Earlier this week at the AAA Expo 2026 event in China, Wahlap had Asphalt 9 Legends Arcade DX Plus on display for attendees to check out. Now, LAI Games has confirmed that they are bringing this game to North America. Since we’ll be able to enjoy this one here soon, let’s give it another gander. [...]
Welcome to the second day of Arcade Heroes’ coverage on AAA 2026, the first major Chinese amusement trade show of the year. Today brings us two of the other biggest companies on the Chinese scene: UNIS, then Ace Amusement. The former is comparable to Wahlap in that they have been around for a while now [...]
The first day of May’s biggest arcade trade show, the AAA (Asia Amusement & Attractions) Expo, is now over and out, and that means the beginning of our three daily posts about all the relevant companies and new arcade games seen at it is here. As is tradition by now, we shall start things off [...]
This weekend is proving to be a busy one for location tests in Japan, as two of the biggest upcoming arcade games on the scene right now are being trialed again by Bandai Namco. We have seen plenty of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune Ignition and Resident Evil 2: Arcade before, owing to their previous tests [...]
The first of the two major yearly Chinese arcade trade shows is now just around the corner, as AAA Expo 2026 will be getting underway on May 10th. In advance of that, today we have our usual preview of everything new that site advertiser Wahlap will be bringing to the event. This has currently been [...]
Those blue-blue skies are seeing some action in arcades all over again, as today we have got confirmation that the new Motion Edition of Daytona Championship USA from Sega Amusements is now shipping out to arcades – and the full details on it. In the words of the great Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, let’s go away! Daytona [...]