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Welcome to Location Watch, a series here on Arcade Heroes that endeavors to track and report on new arcade location openings from all around the world. This will be our final look at new locations for 2024, while also giving us a preview of some locations that are new and fresh for 2025. Our last [&hellip

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Welcome to another edition of Newsbytes, the series of posts at AH that brings together the latest news from around the arcade and pinball worlds. It’s been a little quiet this month, with the IAAPA buzz dying down and a lot of people in the industry seemingly either too busy behind the scenes or on [&hellip

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CHARTS: New content brings Helldivers 2 back to Steam Top Ten The unveiling of a new faction to chaotic multiplayer shooter Helldivers 2 has brought the game back into the Steam Top Ten.  The title shot up from No.42 to fifth week-on-week thanks to the introduction of the Illuminate enemies; this is the third faction to join the game.  Counter-Strike 2 reclaimed the top spot, pushing Path of Exile 2 down into second place. Valve’s Steam Deck hardw…

Continuing with our IAAPA 2024 wrap-up, which will soon be completed once and for all, let’s take a look at more of the players within the industry that fit the video game side of amusement more so than the redemption one. We’ve already covered our advertisers and big names like Raw Thrills, Bandai Namco, and [&hellip

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Following a successful showing at IAAPA 2024 that saw it awarded a coveted Brass Ring Award, Utah based Alan-1 has begun shipping both the Pro and Deluxe models of their Asteroids Recharged arcade game that first debuted at Amusement Expo 2024 earlier this year. The units actually began shipping right before the show, but we [&hellip

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Marvel Rivals reaches 10m players Hero shooter Marvel Rivals has managed to attract over 10 million players so far. That’s according to the title’s official Twitter account , which announced the milestone three days after the free-to-play title’s initial December 6th release.  “We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you,” a post on the Marvel Rivals Twitter read. “Let’s ignite the battle togeth…