The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the Japanese arcade industry hard. With the country closed off to tourism, it might only seem like big city arcades are the ones that are hurting the most. That’s simply ...

In many places, arcades seem to have nearly, if not completely, vanished. Yet, in Japan, they continue to hang on. As The Financial Times reports in a recent piece on Japanese arcades, there were ...

Amusement Arcade Toaplan - Official Japanese Trailer | TGS 2023 Check out the trailer for Amusement Arcade Toaplan, which features 25 classic games. Amusement Arcade Toaplan will be coming to iOS and ...

Tatsujin has announced Amusement Arcade Toaplan, an iOS and Android application that will allow users to purchase all 25 former Toaplan games and create a Toaplan arcade on their smartphone. A release ...

Sega will set up a booth showcasing its arcade games at the Amusement Expo in Tokyo Big Sight with tournaments and new information about existing titles. The booth will be available at the venue’s ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world throughout much of 2020, the entertainment and amusement industry has been one of the hardest areas hit. Where video game development and events have ...

The next step in Sony’s plans for PlayStation VR involves rolling out to arcades and possibly even amusement parks in Japan, according to a report on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal reported Sony ...

The annual Amusement Machine Operators' Union show in Japan is a dealer-oriented event that gives a sneak preview of arcade games coming out in the near future. For the past few years, video games at ...

Fate/Grand Order Arcade will launch in Japanese arcades in late July, Sega announced during a stage event at Japan Amusement Expo 2018. The arcade game is based on the characters, known as “Servants,” ...

It is hard to think that the novel coronavirus will subside by February 2021, and it is also extremely unclear whether an exhibition event with an uncertain amount of visitors from both inside and ...