New Games Available Now: Perfect Pour Pabst Blue Ribbon Edition (DSM Arcade); Dragon Kingdom (Ace/ASI), More From TouchMagix

Arcade news has mostly slowed to a crawl post-Pokémon pinball reveal, with numerous stories developing in the background but still being kept quiet until closer to Amusement Expo next month (and a upcoming special anniversary post for a certain North American developer needing some final approvals…); however, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing out there to talk about. Today we have two recent game releases to acknowledge, as well as some news and a press release from site advertisers TouchMagix.

Newsbytes: Atari PONG Arcade Table Is Back; Pop’n Music US; Sonic The Hedghog Arcade1Up, More

Welcome to Newsbytes, a series of posts here on Arcade Heroes that rounds up byte-sized pieces of news from around the worlds of arcades and pinball. We don’t have a ton of stuff on pinball since most of that was soaked up by Pokémon, but there are several fun things going on in the wider arcade scene. Let’s check them out:

The Atari Pong Cocktail Returns

Gotta Catch ‘Em All? Stern Pinball Officially Unveils Pokémon

The internet went all ablaze last week when Stern Pinball finally teased that their next major release would be the long rumored Pokémon, based upon the ultra-famous franchise of the same name. This did confuse a lot of fans who know nothing about pinball, which I sort of addressed here, but today, the company fully rolled out the details. Let’s discuss.

Pokémon – The Pinball Machine