In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams reports from the first international amusement trade show of the New Year, visiting London’s EAG 2023 and reporting back about the new content headed to arcades in Europe in the near future. This article was a surprise to me as [...]
Welcome to Part #2 of my IAAPA 2022 review; If you missed it, here’s Part #1. This post will repeat much of the first part for the games lists; Then I’ll continue thoughts on games starting with titles in the M’s. If you don’t care about the games lists, then just scroll down to where [...]
Most new pinball machines seem to follow a distinct reveal pattern: Get a quick tease, then a full video trailer+photos, then production comes along a short time later. For the latest pinball machine that was revealed the other day, we’re on phase 2 of that process. Here’s the official trailer for Weird Al’s Museum of [...]
[Updates] Note that a few updates have come along since I first posted this story; Scroll down for more. Yesterday and today have been great for fans of the shoot ’em up genre, thanks to the ShooterFes 2021 event that was held by Mikado Arcade in Tokyo. As previously mentioned on the blog, exA-Arcadia was [...]
It’s the day for pranksters and jokesters all around the globe, and per usual we’ve been a part of that for the arcade side of things. This year we did Untitled Goose Game Arcade, once again thanks to the art skills of Jdevy, who also created Doom Arcade and Super Smash Bros. Arcade in years [...]
It’s been such an unusually busy week for arcade news that today’s Newsbytes is a wee bit sparse. Either way, here are some quick items to read & watch for the weekend. Stern Launches The Heads-Up Pinball Invitational For Avengers: Infinity Quest Which of these 8 players will win a Stern Pinball machine? I’m not [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a collection of quick news items from around the world of amusement for your weekend reading pleasure. This week was the busiest of the shortened month for arcade news, and March is generally a little busier, although we won’t have Amusement Expo to provide any kind of boost in that regard. Arcade [...]
It’s been a fairly quiet February although between this and one other new game story that I’m working on, perhaps it’ll go out with a bang. We’ve detailed what the exA-Arcadia system is plenty of times on the blog so I won’t rehearse all that; You can click here if it sounds new to you. [...]
Just when I wasn’t expecting to come across any news for the last week of the year, something has popped up. Once again, this is thanks to the exA-Arcadia, which continues to pump games out (speaking of which, my copy of Gimmick! arrived two days earlier than I had anticipated…but I was not at the [...]
I haven’t spent too much time on discussing the mini-arcades that have exploded onto the home scene, apart from some mentions on Newsbytes, but enough news has come along this week for several competing brands that it warrants it’s own post. Let’s take a look at what’s out there: Neo Geo MVSX Announced I was [...]