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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Pinball at the Beach is a new pinball show located at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The TradeWinds Island Grand resort The show is sponsored by local pinball retailer, Little Shop of Games, it’s owner Marshall Dickson, partnering with Ed VanderVeen. Ed ran the very successful Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) for years, [...]
A new limited edition vinyl LP of the music from Stern Pinball’s Black Knight: Sword of Rage is to go on sale to mark this year’s Record Store Day on April 12th. The new Black Knight: Sword of Rage LP The music in the game was created by Scott Ian of the band Anthrax and [...]
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 [...]
2025 really started with a bang with a new game reveal by one company and big changes at another, while the show season got off to a flying start in both the US and the UK. So, Martin from Pinball News and Jonathan from Pinball Magazine are back to bring you all the exciting news [...]
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 [...]
Happy New Year 2025 or if you are one of our Chinese readers, “Gung Hay Fat Choy!” Please refer to the Pinball Map for the latest game lineup at this site. Photographs contained in this article show the games present on the day(s) of our visit. Pins & Pints Pinball Pub opened to the public [...]
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 [...]