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IAAPA 2026 is just around the corner, and as a few companies have begun revealing what they are debuting at the show, some have been wondering what Raw Thrills will be bringing. Today, we can confirm what one of those games will be, as Raw has unveiled a new model for their flagship title, Godzilla
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Halloween is coming up fast, and to celebrate, Sega Amusements has pulled back the curtain on their next signature arcade release, House of the Dead Reawakened. This is the first VR entry into the series, celebrating thirty years of House of the Dead in arcades. It will be at IAAPA 2026 in a few wee
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Welcome to Newsbytes, our staple series of posts at Arcade Heroes that curate news from around the world of arcades and pinball. It’s been almost a month since the last of these, and with there being no posts on the site this past week we have got a few things to cover for this weekend, […] The post
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A few years back I was fortunate enough to be a part of a rescue mission that took a group of arcade collectors to France to remove multiple arcade cabinets from a run down building. If you missed that write up, check it out here. Suffice to say, the building was a health hazard, and... Read More
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The “Superbowl” for pinball known as Pinball Expo came and went this past week, with several new pinball titles promoted and various other announcements featured. With everything now out there, let’s see what went on at the show. Note that I was not in attendance, so this is a curation of news from
Read on Arcade HeroesOne of Sega’s best-known arcade horror franchises is coming back, and this time it appears to be making the jump to virtual reality. Sega Amusements has teased House of the Dead Reawakened, a new VR arcade game scheduled to … Readmore The post Sega Teases House of the Dead Reawakened a New VR Arcade
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Sonic is heading back to arcades with a new racing game, over fifteen years since he last graced the scene in a racer. Sega has officially announced Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Arcade DX, an arcade adaptation of its popular kart … Readmore The post Sega Announces Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Arcade DX With
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Within the semi-slow news cycle out of this past summer, we did hear about Utah-based Alan-1 when they brought two new games to the California Extreme event. They’ve been relatively quiet since, but now with IAAPA 2026 approaching fast, they have unveiled some of their new game line-up that will be
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We’re only about a month away from IAAPA 2026, which often means that arcade news starts to pick up a bit from what it was. While this summer was a bit uneven on the news, there are always things happening behind the scenes, with most developers aiming for the end of the year as the […] The post Adr
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Just over a week after the last major Sega arcade news about the imminent return of House of the Dead, we have another announcement from them featuring one of their biggest names. Revealed by them today in a special livestream for the game, their recent blue hedgehog kart racer Sonic Racing CrossWor
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Playing classic arcade games through emulation makes thousands of titles easily accessible, but there’s one small part of the original experience that’s usually missing: actually dropping a coin into the machine. Chronic Concepts has a rather cute solution with … Readmore The post Insert Coin Cube G
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The starting shot on teases and announcements of new arcade games for IAAPA Expo 2026 has already been fired, as Sega Amusements have teased what initially looked like an unnamed new title of theirs today. We can confirm that this is a new, VR-based entry in their iconic House of the Dead series: Ho
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Welcome to the Arcade Heroes round-up of IAAPA Expo Europe 2026, where we will be taking a look at all the arcade video games that were shown off at the biggest European amusement trade show this year, between September 22nd and 24th at the Excel Center in London, England. This show marks the first
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Shout out to user Jumpman over at Gaming Alexandra for this one. A while back I wrote about the development of Namco’s classic shooter Xevious. Check the article out here if you missed it. Along the way, I noted that Xevious was the first classic arcade gaming to be advertised directly to the public
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Welcome to our first Newsbytes for Fall 2026. This is the series of posts where we curate the smaller bits and bytes of news that perhaps don’t warrant a full-blown post on the main page. We don’t have a ton to share for this edition, as most arcade happenings outside the trade shows have slowed […]
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Developed by Jamie Fenton of Dave Nutting Associates, Gorf was Midway’s biggest arcade hit since Gun Fight. A classic shooter that drew inspiration from other titles such as Space Invaders, Galaxian and Phoenix. GORF is an acronym for Galactic Orbital Robot Force. Released in February 1981, the game
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Night City is getting another arcade adaptation with the release of Cyberpunk 2077: Chrome Rush, a new motorcycle combat racing game from UNIS Technology and Leads Games. Based on CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 universe, Chrome Rush combines high-speed racing … Readmore The post Cyberpunk 2077: Chr
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Blue Motion Games has officially opened worldwide availability for John Wick: Continental Pursuit, bringing the action-heavy Lionsgate franchise to arcades across all markets after an earlier international rollout and a timed U.S. exclusive at Dave & Buster’s. … Readmore The post John Wick: Continen
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American Pinball is giving Galactic Tank Force one last sendoff with the reveal of Galactic Tank Force: Victory Edition, a new limited-production version of the company’s original sci-fi pinball adventure. Scheduled as the final production run for the title, … Readmore The post Galactic Tank Force R
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Barrels of Fun has officially revealed its latest pinball machine, bringing one of rock’s most recognizable bands to the silverball stage. Bon Jovi Pinball celebrates more than four decades of music with a feature-packed machine that combines the band’s … Readmore The post Bon Jovi Rocks Into Pinbal
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Episode 40 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: John Ray joined Atari Inc in 1977 as a hardware engineer, learning the ropes with 1978’s Fire-Truck, arguably the fir
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Multimorphic continues to push the boundaries of modern pinball with the release of Dungeon Crawler Carl, a new game module for its innovative P3 pinball platform. Based on Matt Dinniman’s bestselling LitRPG novel series, the machine combines the fast-paced … Readmore The post Dungeon Crawler Carl L
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A batch of previously unseen videos from the Golden Age of coin-operated gaming for you this week. Lyle Raines was one of Atari Coin-Op’s most influential employees. He arrived at Atari with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California in Berkeley, where he gradu
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Escape rooms have been a popular attraction in entertainment venues over the past decade, offering players a chance to solve puzzles, uncover clues, and work together under pressure. Now, Dark Escape Games is bringing that concept into a more … Readmore The post Clown Around Brings the Escape Room E
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