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21 01, 2024

Pre-orders Now Available For Project Neon [Neo Geo AES/MVS]

By |2024-01-22T06:40:06+00:00January 21st, 2024|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Pre-orders Now Available For Project Neon [Neo Geo AES/MVS]

Anyone here remember a shoot ’em up game by the name of Project NEON? If not, you can be forgiven – the last time we reported on this new Neo Geo game was back in 2019. That feels like a life time ago at this point. Well, we finally have some news, so lets dive [...]

26 12, 2023

What Is In Store For DSM Arcade In 2024?

By |2023-12-26T19:19:00+00:00December 26th, 2023|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on What Is In Store For DSM Arcade In 2024?

Before we end 2023, I wanted to take this opportunity to look at an arcade developer who are moving up from an indie developer to bigger player in the amusement business. I spoke with Dan Fessler, founder of DSM Arcade and we’ve got some information on what his plans are going into 2024. DSM is [...]

5 05, 2021

Retro Raccoons Readies For A Summer Release

By |2021-05-06T14:58:13+01:00May 5th, 2021|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Retro Raccoons Readies For A Summer Release

Back at the beginning of 2018, we heard about a new multiplayer indie game by the name of Tipsy Raccoons, developed by Adam Wray of glitchbit. He had noticed that bar/arcades really had a thing for retro games, but the problem with retro stuff is 1) maintenance 2) availability (as an example, every bar/arcade out [...]

13 02, 2021

Talking Indies With Indie Arcade Wave

By |2021-02-13T20:46:29+00:00February 13th, 2021|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Talking Indies With Indie Arcade Wave

This week has been dead for arcade news, and I haven’t had the time to cook up an opinion piece or article, but I was able to Joe of Slackerz Inc. and Indie Arcade Wave last week, and he posted the podcast for it today. I figure that it’s a good idea to shine a [...]

1 05, 2020

BumbleBear Games Announces ABS vs THE BLOOD QUEEN

By |2020-05-02T01:07:17+01:00May 1st, 2020|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on BumbleBear Games Announces ABS vs THE BLOOD QUEEN

While this story is primarily about a home game, there is an arcade element to it, so it counts You know BumbleBear Games through their efforts on Killer Queen Arcade and Black Emperor, and now they are expanding their repertoire through a new platformer title called ABS vs THE BLOOD QUEEN. The single player run’n [...]

2 10, 2019

A Direct Look At Black Emperor

By |2019-10-02T16:16:34+01:00October 2nd, 2019|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on A Direct Look At Black Emperor

Welcome to October, a month that means we can probably expect to see more previews of new arcade games before IAAPA lands in November. Since big stuff tends to get a lot of the attention, I wanted to shine a light on more of the indie arcade games that are out there. To do so, [...]

20 04, 2019

Deep Root Pinball Holds A Panel At FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention

By |2019-04-20T14:37:58+01:00April 20th, 2019|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Deep Root Pinball Holds A Panel At FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention

While most of our focus here is on video arcade games, we certainly do like to talk pinball. The attention that pinball gets in the media is a little different than what you get with video games – even though video games see a wider variety of titles and manufacturers, pinball has a stronger fanbase. [...]

23 05, 2018

Available In June: Tipsy Raccoons

By |2018-05-24T07:53:36+01:00May 23rd, 2018|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Available In June: Tipsy Raccoons

Way back in January you might recall a story we ran about an up-and-coming independent developer by the name of Glitchbit and their first release: Tipsy Raccoons. The game has made appearances at arcade locations for testing as well as at a couple of trade shows in Vegas (one of which I was at but [...]

21 04, 2018

Cosmotrons Update: Now Available To Order!

By |2018-04-22T16:34:54+01:00April 21st, 2018|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Cosmotrons Update: Now Available To Order!

The journey of the indie arcade game Cosmotrons is about to come to a head as we have a new update to share with you in regards to the production version of the game. Let’s get to the big news first: any operators or distributors interested in carrying the game can now place an order [...]

25 03, 2018

Newsbytes: Iron Maiden Pinball; Dancerush Stardom; Arcade Post-Mortems; JPO IN SLC

By |2018-03-25T04:47:00+01:00March 25th, 2018|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Newsbytes: Iron Maiden Pinball; Dancerush Stardom; Arcade Post-Mortems; JPO IN SLC

Welcome to Newsbytes, our little collection of arcade & pinball news for the weekend. Note that we had to correct something on the Buckzilla article so that has been updated. Also, I’m hearing from various individuals about the new Rampage game which is at many Dave & Busters locations this weekend but unfortunately I’ve not [...]

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