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Nov
24
Pinballing it up in Pinball Town
Category: Xbox 360, General, News, Arcade, Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox LIVE Arcade, DLC, Pinball, Live, 360, pinball fx | 
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This last weekend I finally broke down and purchased the XBox Live game Pinball FX. The combination of not enough sleep and the love of pinball caused me to purchase the downloadable title. I also picked up the Rocky and Bullwinkle and Street Fighter II Turbo tables at the same time.
I have to say […]
Nov
7
[GSW’s resident Scottishman in Canada, Mathew Kumar, was kind enough to attend the Toronto-based Artcade game exhibit the other weekend - and presents a report for your delight and delectation.]
If you happen to read Gamasutra as well as GameSetWatch (and I hope you do, because it’s important to cut your intake of unusual game-related nonsense […]
Nov
5
Street Fighter II Pinball Coming to Xbox Live Arcade!
Category: Xbox 360, News, Arcade, New Releases, Xbox Live, Xbox LIVE Arcade, Capcom, Street Fighter, Pinball, Microsoft Live | Leave a Comment
The XBox Live Arcade game Pinball FX just might see a lot more downloads in it’s future. The game now has added a downloadable table based on the classic arcade game Street Fighter II Turbo.
I’ve actually wanted this game for awhile, but was one of those ones where I figured I’d get around to getting […]
Sep
18
Rambo in the Arcades
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It’s something I’ve written about here and I think it needs revisiting from time to time, that is, the sad state of the American Arcade. Where once the landscape was dominated by places full of the newest and coolest videogames, now there exists only pockets of games that really mostly on gimmicks to part […]
Sep
5
Street Fighter Four Locations
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So you want to play Street Fighter IV in the arcade and the last place you saw arcade games was 1993? There’s a website you can use in order to find the nearest machine to you in order to relive the arcade glory years of your youth. You know, begging your mom for quarters […]
Apr
5
[The arcade game scene is still alive in North America, and Game Set Watch asked Arcade Heroes‘ Adam Pratt to write up a report on last weekend’s ASI 2008 event in Las Vegas, revealing just where the arcade scene is heading, even after its reported Western demise.]
For the most part, the game industry events that […]
Sep
17
The other day, I was bemoaning the relative lack of Western coverage for the Japanese AM2 arcade show (although my co-worker Brandon Sheffield did post some video links on Insert Credit). But now, catching up on RSS feeds, I find that Arcade Renaissance has a gigantic mess of reports from the 45th Amusement Show, […]
Aug
8
Reminder: California Extreme This Weekend, ‘Film Festival’ Added!
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<!–adsense–> We got an email from Bowen Kerins of the California Extreme organizing team (whom I remember from rec.games.pinball in about 1994, heh), and he was kind enough to both remind GSW readers that the awesome retro event is happening this weekend in San Jose, and also mention some v. interesting movies being played alongside […]
Jul
24
Arcade Renaissance has passed along the interesting news that U.S. Government-sponsored shooter America’s Army is now getting an arcade version, as part of a partnership with arcade game publisher Global VR.
According to the official press release: “Working hand-in-hand with U.S. Army Subject Matter Experts and with the full cooperation of units of the U.S. […]
Jul
12
The Japanese arcade game scene continues to be fascinating, even if it’s basically not reproducable outside that territory, and Arcade Renaissance has grabbed the latest Arcadia Magazine-compiled arcade game charts from Japan - most interesting.
As they note: “The following rankings are separated between the top 10 generic cabinets and the top 10 dedicated […]