For whatever reason, there have been a few news releases on pinball, so I’ll take the liberty of combining them all into one post. This covers three different companies, so “letsa go!” Stern Pinball Announces Jurassic Park Pin When I first saw the email about this, I thought that it was just going to be [...]
This week has been extremely quiet for arcade news, but there are a few items that showed up late in the week that are fine for Newsbytes. Let’s hop to it! AtGames Launches Their ArcadeNet Service Game streaming services are slowly starting to catch up to movie streaming services, although we aren’t close yet in [...]
Back in September, ICE (short for Innovative Concepts in Entertainment) revealed that they were launching a full line of commercial-grade, home-focused arcade games. With the holidays here, they now have all of their titles listed up for sale. Found at Homearcades.com, they have three categories: Dome, Arcade & Pinball. Dome has their bubble hockey titles; [...]
Rushing towards Black Friday and the holidays, and we see a perfusion of retro-mini arcade cabinets hitting the shelves. Friend-of-the-site, and trend specialist Kevin Williams looks at a selection of the releases hoping to feed off their arcade legacy and find a place at home. Being old enough to remember the first flush of excitement [...]
[I meant to post this much earlier, but working on my second location got a bit ahead of me today] It’s an age of change and adaptation, which has been a concern for companies normally focused on Out-of-Home Entertainment products. Many arcades are still closed in many areas, despite the easing of most restrictions in [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a weekend collection of quick news from around the arcade/pinball world. Since major arcade news has been historically slow this year, we’re seeing more Newsbytes posts than usual, but at least there’s still something to talk about. Exa Games On Test, In Action I’ve come across a Japanese based YouTube channel that [...]
While flat & head-mounted displays soak up most of the attention for new products in the arcade sector, the existence of alternate forms of display tech catch our attention from time to time. One of the more exciting prospects has been that of “holograms,” or more appropriately, volumetric displays. We have covered volumetrics previously with [...]
Welcome friends, to another edition of Newsbytes. This collection of quick arcade-related news items should tide you over until the next story of the week. We’ve had an interesting week of stories at that, starting with a new light-gun game, then the release of Centipede Chaos and the sighting of a new Frogger arcade game. [...]