Welcome to the last edition of Newsbytes – for August 2020. This is a weekend post that brings together some news from around the arcade & pinball world that is usually brief enough to get lumped together with other bytes.
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Stern Teases A 2nd Avengers Pinball
Designed by Keith Elwin (Iron Maiden), I haven’t caught up on all of the unofficial chatter about this one yet, so I’ll assume it’s based on Infinity War. I’m also guessing we’ll hear more about this on Monday when whoever has the scoop on this will reveal it in full detail (IGN?):
Strania EX Now Available
After some recent testing, Exa-Arcadia is now shipping Strania EX cartridges to interested parties. Carts begin shipping next week, although I believe if you want the faster service you’ll want to use the more expensive DHL for delivery outside of Japan. As mentioned in the past, this serves as G.Rev’s “definitive” version of the game, including content from previous releases while adding an exclusive “Hell Mode” which caters to seasoned players. Balancing adjustments were made to it from testing, but overall this marks the highest profile release on Exa-Arcadia systems to date.
In other Exa news, location tests have continued apace for titles like Psyvariar AC, Blazing Chrome and Gimmick! exAct Mix; No news yet on tests for DoDonPachi Saidaioujou, Noisz Arc*coda, Rival Megagun XE, The Fallen Angels, Axel City 2, Bayani, Alien Field 3671 AC and Cosmic Digger 3671.
Raw Thrills Launches Merchandise Store
Have you ever wanted to own some official Raw Thrills branded merchandise? Well now you can with their online store. At the moment it’s just their logo on top of things like shirts, mugs, backpacks, caps and such; With most of their productions having been licensed works, that does limit the game logo options, although they could do Super
