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Our days of piloting a little spaceship through beautiful firework patterns of bullets are sadly coming to an end, as the Western branch of Cave Interactive—the preeminent Japanese studio that makes impossible shoot’em ups known as danmaku, or bullet hells—is ceasing communication with the West. On
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Next time you’re in Vegas, go where the real men play: Tim Arnold’s Pinball Hall of Fame.
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After seeing this brilliant arcade cabinet that pours the winner a pint of pilsner, I’m suddenly optimistic about the future of drinking games. Called the Barcade, the machine was made by an ad agency to promote Big Boss Brewing Company of Raleigh, North Carolina’s sweet carbonated golden brews. It
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New mediums spend their early years as platforms for what hasn’t yet been possible, gathering material from the unsatisfied impulses of their creator’s brains. Eventually, with enough time and accumulation, the material echoes its very creation. Arcadecraft, a new indie game on Xbox Live where you m
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Arcades are a memory of our youth and nostalgic nod to our future. One writer takes the long road from New Hampshire to central Florida and beyond.
Western Automatic Music
Recycled for parts and left to sit, one arcade distributor’s old cabinets recall the shining past of coin-op gaming.
Coin Pushers
A guide to liberating some change from the claw machine’s twisted sister.