Welcome to Newsbytes, our semi-regular series of posts at AH that covers the quicker pieces of news from around the arcade industry. Quite a few things have bubbled up outside of IAAPA, although we still have a lot to cover from that show – so stay tuned this next week, as we’ll finally be catching…
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Patch 7.1 – Crossroads
Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail was a challenging expansion to review. It featured some of the best gameplay the MMO has had in years, but after the narrative payoff of Endwalker, the new story arc had some growing pains. Since the first three patches after an expansion have traditionally wrapped up lingering plot threads, I was…
exA-Arcadia Showcases First New Arcade Games For Japan Amusement Expo & IAAPA 2024
Japan’s Amusement Expo – formerly known as JAEPO – is going to begin on Friday in Japan, while IAAPA Expo 2024 starts less than a week from now in Orlando. In the instance of both events, exA-Arcadia will be there with a booth, and they will be showing off brand new games for their cartridge-based…
Rhythm Encounter 149 – RPG Music Origin Stories
We all have origin stories about how we got into RPGs (several of us shared them almost six years ago in this feature!), so today our panel discusses music origins — what RPGs attuned us to the RPG music scene or otherwise elevated our senses and made us take notice. For some of us, this…
Japan Amusement Expo 2024: The Full Preview
In Japan, last year saw both the final edition of JAEPO, the country’s main arcade show that had been held each February since 2013, and their new Amusement Expo – a reworked and reformatted trade event for November, to address concerns in the post-COVID reality of the business. That event was only done on one…
RPGs Coming This Week, 12/1/24
In this edition of RPGs Coming This Week, a major JRPG finally breaks out of its smartphone confines, plus we get a bunch of Steam Early Access comers and goers. December is usually a slow period for releases, but that is not so in 2024. So let’s get a move on, shall we? Caves of…