The wait is officially over, as the complete and “ultimate” version of Godzilla Kaiju Wars VR by Raw Thrills is now available for existing locations to grab for their machines. Let’s see what this free update is all about, plus a quick mention on Top Gun: Maverick
Arduino Team — June 3rd, 2025 Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel MateoTechLab has adapted it into a shoulder-mounted animatronic named “Pico” that can constantly interact with the wearer. All movement, sound generation, and lighting are handled by an Arduino Nano Every board embedded inside a custom 3D-printed enclosure. Its base features a micro servo motor that rotates the head up...
32MB of SD Ram compatiable, compatiable with PC and Photoplay machines. pc100 32mb 4m*16 sdram
Air Week: June 2-8, 2025
Welcome to the latest edition of Location Watch, a regular series here on Arcade Heroes that covers the news of brand new arcade locations which have opened anywhere on the planet. That has the caveat of only being locations that we hear about, but thanks to various readers, and other arcade news sites like RePlay Magazine and InterGame Online, we do our best at keeping this comprehensive. Our last Location Watch post came in way back at the end...
It’s been said that computers make great teachers because they’re so dumb, they force you to think harder.1 That’s definitely true in the case of this automatic homework machine by Devadath PR of Thrissur, Kerala, India, which uses a CoreXY plotter and clever programming to convincingly forge the answers. Fed up at 15 with an educational system that felt heavy on rote memorization but low on critical thinking, Devadath began building a machine to do the boring...
Much has been said in recent months about arcade virtual reality (and VR in general) declining from the heights of its second boom period. That doesn’t stop new pieces from appearing, however, as here we have news of one appearing on location test. LAI Games was the first company to have a big hit in this space with Virtual Rabbids (2017), and now they are working with Ubisoft again as they have begun testing Ubisoft All-Star Blast VR. Let’s...
Welcome to Newsbytes, a regular series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that runs through recent “bytes” of news around the wonderful world of arcade and pinball games. We usually try and launch these on a Saturday, but given the Memorial Day weekend and day that it was in the US, we held it over. This weekend each May is usually a good time for going out and visiting an arcade, and I tend to be busy (but both last...
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