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 [...]
By M.G. Brown Address: 3200 W. Le Moyne St., Stone Park, IL 60165Website: www.pinballcapital.comPhone: +1 (708) 731-3147Hours: Closed Mondays; Tues-Thurs 3pm-10pm; Fri–Sun 11am-11pm.Please consult the Pinball Map for the latest games available to play. During my free partial day in the Chicago area before attending Stern Pinball’s reveal of their latest cornerstone game to the [...]
In 2025, RS-Pinball head, Stefan Riedler, headed up the team organising the 2025 European Pinball Championship. It was held at the REVA Halle Eissport in the town of Vöcklabruck in the centre of the country. We were there and you can read our report here. The EPC was such a success with so much support, [...]
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 [...]
Stern Pinball today announced their second cornerstone game of the year, Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye! This isn’t Stern’s first Transformers game. Back in 2011 they released a George Gomez design which was notable for introducing the use of QR codes to direct players to Stern’s microsite dedicated to the Transformers game for game [...]
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 [...]