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6 02, 2025

Bandai Namco Reveals Wangan Midnight Speed Ignition

By |2025-02-06T19:51:34+00:00February 6th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Bandai Namco Reveals Wangan Midnight Speed Ignition

For several years now, one of the most heavily-rumored arcade games out there has been the next major entry in the Wangan Midnight series of racers by Bandai Namco. This has been talked about under the assumption it would finally be a Maximum Tune 7 – with a huge overhaul anticipated for the game itself [...]

3 02, 2025

Sega’s Maimai DX Is Apparently Headed To Amusement Expo 2025

By |2025-02-03T19:23:57+00:00February 3rd, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Sega’s Maimai DX Is Apparently Headed To Amusement Expo 2025

Thanks to everyone who sent this in! It’s now February, which means that we’re a month and a half away from the next major arcade industry tradeshow, Amusement Expo International. It’s often been called “the Spring show”, “the AMOA show,” or depending on your context, just “Expo” – depends on how long you’ve been in [...]

30 01, 2025

Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan

By |2025-01-30T18:46:17+00:00January 30th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Bandai Namco To Test New Arcade Music Game “Penda Beats” In Japan

A few weeks ago, mention was made in a Newsbytes of a mysterious new Bandai Namco Amusement trademark. Little was clear but from the logo design and title, it looked like it could be a brand new arcade music/rhythm game from the house of Taiko No Tatsujin. Now, just over a month after that trademark [...]

29 01, 2025

Game Updates + Cambria Sword Another Cry AC Now Available

By |2025-01-29T18:37:11+00:00January 29th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Game Updates + Cambria Sword Another Cry AC Now Available

We’ve got two quick bits of news to share with you today about new releases for the arcade industry, including one game that just began shipping. But before we get to that, let’s update you on the status behind a couple of games, one of which is highly anticipated among arcade players out there. GoldStorm [...]

27 01, 2025

Atari’s Missile Command Returning To Arcades With Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1

By |2025-01-28T18:27:48+00:00January 27th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Atari’s Missile Command Returning To Arcades With Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1

This past weekend, Alan-1 held their second annual Major League eSports League World Championship. While we had made an update in regards to the winner of that tournament, along with a brief note in regards to what new games that their company would be releasing in the near future, it is likely that many missed [...]

23 01, 2025

New Arcade Releases: Avian Knights (Alan-1); Sailor’s Quest 2 VR (UNIS); Super Drill (Ace)

By |2025-01-23T17:41:38+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on New Arcade Releases: Avian Knights (Alan-1); Sailor’s Quest 2 VR (UNIS); Super Drill (Ace)

It’s time to catch up on new arcade releases for North America, with three games that are available now to order from Alan-1, Ace Amusement/Amusement Source International, and UNIS/IGS. Also as a quick note, Jamjam’n Jelly EXA LENTE just finished its test in Japan. As of this publication, it is not up for pre-order, but [...]

17 01, 2025

The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025

By |2025-01-18T16:54:09+00:00January 17th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on The Arcade Anniversaries of 2025

With a new year upon us, you are likely to come across an anniversary or two out there in relation to some of your favorite video games. Since we cover arcades here, we’re going to look at the games that were released 50, 40, 25, and 10 years ago – guaranteed to make you feel [...]

13 01, 2025

EAG Expo 2025 Preview

By |2025-01-14T16:16:32+00:00January 13th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on EAG Expo 2025 Preview

The first major amusement-focused trade show of this year is now just around the corner, as EAG Expo 2025 is about to start up at London’s ExCel venue for three days from tomorrow. In case there are any new readers viewing this, the EAG Expo serves the Entertainment, Attractions and Gaming industries of the UK [...]

13 01, 2025

Newsbytes Rhythm Game Special: Maimai DX Testing In Chicago, Bubble Bobble In Music Diver, Headlines & Much More

By |2025-01-13T16:06:19+00:00January 13th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Newsbytes Rhythm Game Special: Maimai DX Testing In Chicago, Bubble Bobble In Music Diver, Headlines & Much More

Welcome to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes that covers everything happening in the arcade and pinball world. Being so soon into 2025, there isn’t a ton of major news out there, but some of the more notable stories that have popped up since the last one were all concerning different titles on [...]

11 01, 2025

Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade

By |2025-01-11T15:47:29+00:00January 11th, 2025|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Arcade Prototype Discovered: Dropzone Arcade

It has been quite a long time since we last reported on a new arcade prototype being found, and to clarify, when we cover this, we usually mean a game that was never released. The last time we had such a report was about an Atari Slot 4 game that was found, but this was [...]