This arcade is really vintage: Visiting San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique

Enlarge / Look through the window and see your future! (credit: Marlowe Bangeman) We saw a lot on our family vacation to California this summer: epic coastline views, acre after acre of almond groves, forest fires, and Venice Beach, to name a few things. Thanks to friends and colleagues, we had a long list of […]

Inside Two Bit Circus, LA’s new VR and arcade amusement park

LOS ANGELES—A new kind of entertainment is opening next month: a large, carnival-like arcade filled with VR headsets, brand-new arcade cabinets, holograms, escape rooms, a robot bartender named Guillermo del Pouro, hidden passages, and more. It’s called Two Bit Circus, and it’s run by a company of the same name. Founded by Eric Gradman (a […]

‘Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition’ gains Sagat and newcomer G

The roster for Street Fighter V‘s Arcade Edition will today gain two new fighters. An announcement on PlayStation Blog confirmed that both series icon Sagat and mysterious newcomer G — who were first revealed for Street Fighter V‘s third season during the 2017 Capcom Cup — are joining the fray. G, the self-described ‘President of […]

Here’s a $20 arcade cabinet made of cardboard and a Switch

Where Nintendo goes, others follow. Off the back of Nintendo’s popular Labo cardboard kits, accessory maker Nyko has concocted its own cardboard creation — the PixelQuest Arcade Kit. Like Labo, it comes flat-packed as cardboard sheets. Where it differs is that the Arcade Kit doesn’t come with any software. It’s instead meant to act as […]

The next Halo game will require no less than a 130-inch, 4K arcade cabinet

As pre-E3 hype ramps up, fans have reason to anticipate new sequels and entries from their favorite game series. Today brings a surprise announcement of a brand-new Halo game—the kind of news you might expect as an E3-keynote surprise. There’s almost certainly a reason this news is coming today as opposed to the middle of […]

The Pinball Arcade is losing its classic tables; grab them while you can

Enlarge (credit: The Pinball Arcade) If you’re a fan of Bally/Williams’ golden age of pinball machines, you might want to act fast to secure some great emulated facsimiles of some of the era’s best tables. The Pinball Arcade has announced that the license holder for 61 Bally/Midway titles that make up the heart of the […]

Battle Bullet-Winged Bosses In Hectic Arcade Shooter Vectorium

Vectorium is the latest entry in the “minimalist bullet hell action” category of dual stick shooter, complementing the fast-paced combat with clever boss designs and a frenetic abstract style. Guiding an agile triangle through increasingly crazy gauntlets, survival is the goal in Vectorium. It doesn’t take long for the screen to become a kaleidoscope of […]