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Big arcade news has just kept on coming with Bandai Namco of late, be it their overseas launches of Taiko No Tatsujin and GoldStorm Pirates or tests for their next music game and Wangan Midnight instalment in Japan. Today, we have yet another brand new arcade game from them on test to check out – [&hellip

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When I started selling arcade machines back in 2011, I would often get requests for arcade basketball machines – not just from businesses, but often from residential customers. They would almost always call the machines “Pop-A-Shots,” which I learned was the brand to initially come up with the idea of coin-operated arcade basketballs machines like [&hellip

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[embedded content]CHICAGO, IL – February 20, 2025 – In collaboration with Lionsgate, Stern Pinball, Inc., announces a full line of…

Previously on Arcade Heroes, we mentioned the arrival of a new company to the industry fray by the name of Blue Motion Games. Spearheaded by industry veteran Salim Sabbagha, the company was at IAAPA 2024 with a motion simulator, but the two games we’ll be detailing below were not there. Now, they are shipping and [&hellip

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In our industry, arcade games don’t always get a shot at being sold for much longer than five years, let alone receive new models. There are exceptions with popular titles however, and today we have a new theater-style design for 2018’s House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn from Sega to discuss. Let’s take a look. [&hellip

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Time for some more news on exA-Arcadia, as they have just held an “exALive” streaming event in Japan. The focus was on showcasing some previously announced titles that will be available very soon, so let’s get you up to speed on what it was all about. Note that the stream was in Japanese, but we [&hellip

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Welcome back to Newsbytes, the series of posts at Arcade Heroes covering bite-sized pieces of news from around the worlds of arcade and pinball. It’s been a little while since we had a regular edition of this (the last was a rhythm game-focused special, thanks to a spate of news there in January), so a [&hellip

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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 [&hellip

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The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without…

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 [&hellip

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Welcome to a different kind of Location Watch from what Arcade Heroes has done previously! In a specially prepared piece for the site, Oga-Shi from Sega Amusements has kindly written a look at a couple of locations in Japan, where he has been spending some time again lately. These offer a snapshot of how their [&hellip

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Welcome to a different kind of Location Watch from what Arcade Heroes has done previously! In a specially prepared piece, one of our true blue Arcade Heroes site friends has kindly written a look at a couple of locations in Japan, where they have been spending some time again lately. These offer a snapshot of [&hellip

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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 [&hellip

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We’ve got a quick bit of news to share with you today about the latest developments for the arcade industry, particularly with 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 [&hellip

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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 [&hellip

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