It’s time for our third and final new game reveal straight from day one of Amusement Expo 2026; in addition to AVATAR Legends, exA-Arcadia have also unveiled G.I. Joe: The Wrath of Cobra, our second new arcade game to be based on the classic IP following JET Games’ take. Surprisingly, the latter is not at Amusement Expo as I had expected it to be, so this stands as the only representation of the IP at the show. Let’s check it...
Learning to play the piano is hard. Your fingers need to find the right keys, apply the right pressure, and move in precise sequences – all while your brain tries to translate sheet music into muscle memory. What if your hands could learn faster with a teacher that literally guides them through each movement? That’s the vision behind Hapticus, a research project led by Kyungyeon Lee, a PhD student at the University of Maryland. Presented at both CHI...
p3a is a fun desktop companion. It is a 4-inch little screen that you set up once, and it keeps going on its own, playing animated artworks (“gifs”) and periodically obtaining new ones from the internet. It connects to Giphy.com and to Makapix.Club (an open-source pixel art social network), or you can copy your own offline files. Is a party coming tonight? Set your p3a to play “party” gifs. Must work for hours? Switch to “work” gifs. You...
Arduino Team — March 16th, 2026 Electric model trains are brilliant in their simplicity. The locomotives have little electric motors and the rails on the tracks act as wires to get power to those motors. But as is always the case with electric motors, there are varying levels of sophistication when it comes to speed control. To upgrade his ancient Z scale model train set, Clem Mayer from element14 Presents built this high-quality controller. Model...
Welcome to our preview of all the big arcade names appearing at Amusement Expo 2026, which is set to kick off next week at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The main trade show side will be happening on the 18th and 19th, whilst the 16th (today) and 17th feature the event’s educational conference days. It is now taking place in the West Hall, which opened up back in 2021, with the host hotel changing from the Westgate to Resorts World....
Air Week: March 16-22, 2026
Before the main preview for Amusement Expo 2026 comes along in a few days time, here is a small update to further bridge the gap on some redemption products that will be appearing there. We don’t tend to focus a lot on ticket redemption here, due to the fact that games in this class tend to do just fine without any media giving them a signal boost. However, since there are still some who ask us to occasionally cover them...
Next up in our previews for Amusement Expo 2026, we have Amusement Source International, distributors of many arcade games (mainly from Chinese factories) to North America. They showed up at IAAPA last November with a very redemption-heavy line-up, but this time they will be bringing slightly more in video games, including one that hasn’t been seen at any trade show in the US yet. Let’s take a look:
We are about a week away from Amusement Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, NV, and while we will have a big preview for the show, we do have a few smaller previews for you that can help you know what’s going to be there. These previews are meant to focus more on new-new titles, as opposed to games that were already seen at previous tradeshows (or are already shipping right now). We will start today with UNIS; also keep in mind...
There’s a new hotness in plasma physics demos. With a sealed vessel of near-vacuum xenon and exactly the right kind of magnetic induction driver, you can conjure a shimmering toroidal halo of stable plasma. Producing the toroid effect requires high-voltage, high-frequency electronics. Compared to a typical Tesla coil the voltages are a bit lower at 600–1,000 volts, but the operating frequency is much higher at around 10–15 megahertz (MHz). This fully-open-source design is intended to be as reproducible as possible....
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