Sam (He/Him) is the former Managing Editor of DualShockers and is now Senior Reporter at TheGamer. He's been in and around games media for six years now and has held a variety of roles within the ...

Visiting Japan without stopping at a game center is like flying to Rome and forgetting to eat pasta. Unlike America, where arcades peaked with that scene in Terminator 2 in which a grown man ...

In November 2021, Eric Bunyan led a group of Japanese businesspeople through an empty space in the Danbury Fair mall that had once been a Forever 21. The girly-pop retailer had vacated the two-story, ...

It took me visiting a Taito Station arcade in Japan to truly understand what makes arcades special. I’ve always been infatuated with arcade-inspired games. I enjoy revisiting those classics and love ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The update to Gundam Extreme Versus 2 Over Boost will start ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the original Cyber Troopers ...

Japanese holding company Sega Sammy has announced the closure of over a third of its arcades in the territory. The Tokyo-based gaming giant - formed after a merger between Sega and Sammy Entertainment ...

Round 1 Bowling & Arcade is getting ready to open its second location in metro Phoenix. The popular Japanese arcade and entertainment attraction, which goes by "Round1," has leased a ...

"Arcade operators, machine manufacturers, and even prize suppliers depend on this business," he told AFP. Some 80 percent of the 22,000 arcades Japan had in 1989 have shut down, but revenues have held ...