Raw Thrills has announced two new series of cards for a couple of their card vending arcade games, one for Minecraft Dungeons Arcade and the other for Marvel: Contest of Champions. Neither of these cards were at IAAPA, nor hinted at – until now. Let’s see what these are all about! The Chicken Jockey Joins [...]
The live music, console gaming and arcade event known as SUPER MAG Fest 2026 is underway, as it usually is at this time of year – and one major surprise is that Andamiro USA has decided to use it to show off their in-development Nickelodeon Kart Racers Arcade game. Andamiro had alluded to this being [...]
Welcome to the first arcade post of 2026, where we start the year off with some a brand new arcade launch for Europe of the rhythm gaming variety. Official releases for Konami’s world famous dance game, Dance Dance Revolution (DDR), have been uneven outside of Asia in recent years, despite it being found at Round1USA [...]
As we bid a warm welcome to 2026, there’s plenty to look back on in the pinball industry throughout the final month of last year. So, Martin from Pinball News and Jonathan from Pinball Magazine are here to bring you all the details in the December 2025 edition of the Pinball Industry News PINcast. December [...]
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes Year-In-Review of 2025, our annual rundown of arcade happenings across various bases. As well as the usual top 10 posts and content at the end of the post, here you will find our summaries of how things have gone for the site in general, a state of the business side, [...]
Welcome to the last 2025 edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers brand new arcade locations which have opened all over the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations we hear about, but thanks to various readers, our own research on social media, and other arcade news [...]
The last title to be released on the exA-Arcadia platform for 2025 is upon us, with Asuka 120% Burning Fest EXALLENT now shipping out to interested buyers. This is also likely the last arcade release of the year, unless someone else begins shipping a game out before the 31st. This release has reportedly done exceptionally [...]
Welcome to the last 2025 edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized pieces of news from around the worlds of arcades and pinball. We usually aim these to launch on the weekend, but there can be exceptions. We have just started the first day of winter for [...]
Revealed earlier this year and also seen at IAAPA 2025, we have confirmation that Wahlap’s Storm Racer 2 is now available in North America. Quick background and the deeper details right afterwards. Background In case you missed the news on this game, or aren’t familiar with the series, let’s get up to speed (so to [...]
It has been a long while since we had news on a never-released arcade game and its prototype, but over the years we have covered several. Those include: Dropzone Arcade; Atari’s Arrk Arrh; and Kung Fu Master 2, among many others. We even have a section dedicated to unreleased/prototype games as you might have seen. [...]