Just over a week after the last major Sega arcade news about the imminent return of House of the Dead, we have another announcement from them featuring one of their biggest names. Revealed by them today in a special livestream for the game, their recent blue hedgehog kart racer Sonic Racing CrossWorlds is now receiving [...]
Here at Pinball News we have been aware of ROKR‘s self-assembly mechanical kits for many years. Founded in 2017, the Robotime sub-brand has been producing impressive build-at-home models which have always featured amazingly intricate detailing as well as incorporating genuinely surprising levels of functionality. Their series of rolling-ball ‘Marble Run‘ 3D model construction sets, for [...]
After the recent flurry of new reveals, September was a much quieter month for game launches. Instead, Martin and Jonathan focus on shows – both recent and upcoming – while bringing you up-to-date with all the rest of the pinball industry news, in the September 2026 edition of the Pinball Industry News PINcast. September 2026 [...]
The starting shot on teases and announcements of new arcade games for IAAPA Expo 2026 has already been fired, as Sega Amusements have teased what initially looked like an unnamed new title of theirs today. We can confirm that this is a new, VR-based entry in their iconic House of the Dead series: House of [...]
Welcome to the Arcade Heroes round-up of IAAPA Expo Europe 2026, where we will be taking a look at all the arcade video games that were shown off at the biggest European amusement trade show this year, between September 22nd and 24th at the Excel Center in London, England. This show marks the first time [...]
Welcome to our first Newsbytes for Fall 2026. This is the series of posts where we curate the smaller bits and bytes of news that perhaps don’t warrant a full-blown post on the main page. We don’t have a ton to share for this edition, as most arcade happenings outside the trade shows have slowed [...]
You may be familiar with the huge IAAPA Expo show which is held in Orlando, Florida each November, but there is also a European version which was launched in Vienna in 2005 as the Euro Attractions Show. IAAPA Expo Europe is held in a different European country each year. Recent hosts have included Paris (2019), [...]
The second major amusement industry trade show of September is nearly here, as the main event of IAAPA Expo Europe 2026 gets underway from tomorrow at the Excel center in London, England. We will have coverage of the show once it is over and done with, but before then, here is our preview of all [...]
2026 has seen many arcade anniversaries, but few are bigger in stature than the one we are talking about today. Some titles transcend being just a great arcade game, and there’s no better example of that than OutRun, one of the crown jewels of Sega’s repertoire, and unassailable peaks of the arcade driving game genre. [...]
exA-Arcadia have been relatively quiet of late compared to previous years, but as we get into the latter half of 2026, they are picking up on the releases. The latest is seeing the return of another 1990s era shoot ’em up title, Truxton II, which was originally crafted by Toaplan. Let’s see what this new [...]