Welcome to Newsbytes, a curated collection of news from around the world of arcade & pinball. This post has been on the backburner since the weekend before IAAPA started but there has been so much for me to do after that event, not to mention everything else I’ve been doing with other arcade work, that [...]
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 [...]
It’s almost been a week since the end IAAPA 2022, so it’s probably a good time for me to make a post about some of the news that came out of the event! It was great meeting a few of you at the show – my apologies on my voice. It’s still a little hoarse [...]
After being teased through updates to the game during the year, Series 2 cards are now available for Minecraft Dungeons Arcade, which brings the total number of collectible cards to 98 (adding 38). As they say in the sales business however, “but that’s not all!” They have added a new level to mix as well. [...]
Quickie post here but it’s now confirmed what else Raw Thrills has brought to the IAAPA 2022 tradeshow and is likely to be hitting the arcade market in the near future. A press release announced it but before I saw that in my email this morning, I saw them with my own eyes. I did [...]
We haven’t heard much from Adrenaline Amusements in a while, although I don’t tend to cover their redemption-focused pieces. While they do tend to focus on tickets, they have done some amusement-only games before, namely Tomb Raider Arcade. Now, as you already read from the headline that brought you here, they are teaming up with [...]
Welcome to the annual IAAPA preview, 2022 edition. Here, I will lay out everything I know about what will be at the IAAPA 2022 tradeshow that takes place from Nov. 14-18th in Orlando, FL. If you don’t know what that show is, think of it as the arcade & amusement industry’s e3. It’s much bigger [...]
The battle of the arcade racers continues to heat up and at this IAAPA, it’ll be a doozy. There will be at least four new racing games appearing at the show, with more likely to show up as unannounced surprises. Here’s one that was revealed by LAI Games today, following reveals on two new redemption [...]
The latest product announcement debuting at IAAPA 2022 comes from one of our advertisers, Touch Magix. They have a new crane machine featuring their Carnival Cups theme that will be there, and it promises to bring some innovation to the industry. The press release doesn’t make clear what that is however, so we’ll have to [...]
Long-time readers to the site will be familiar with exA-Arcadia, a platform I’ve discussed many times on the blog. If you haven’t heard about it before, they are akin to classic Neo Geo MVS, offering a modern take on that idea. Their model is quite beneficial to the modern arcade operator, allowing for certain genres [...]