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Rayforce was first released in Japanese arcades in 1993—when I was fifteen. The game is now out on the iOS. For $11.99. More »
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The 26th Prize Fair recently wrapped up, showing off prizes available in arcade redemption games during the first half of 2012. Companies including Taito, Banpresto, and Sega were on hand. Ditto for their prizes. More »
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RayStorm, the classic 1990s shooting game, always felt like it got somewhat overlooked compared to the spate of shooters released that decade. More »
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The 49th Amusement Machine show wrapped up recently in Japan. The show played host to new arcade games like Sega's Operation G.H.O.S.T., new medal games for Monster Hunter and Pokémon, and a bunch of prizes. More »
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Fans of classic rock and fantasy art will no doubt be familiar with the name Roger Dean. The British artist is as synonymous with 1970's prog rock (especially the band Yes) as epic guitar tracks, and his bold, unique art style means you've probably seen and remembered his work, even if you've never remembered his name. More »
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It's one of the defining works of modern popular culture, and features plenty of stylised, graphic action. So why is it nobody has ever made a good game out of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira? More »
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Noel Gallagher, the former Oasis songwriter, probably doesn't remember most of the 1990s. He was out of his mind, doing drugs—maybe even doing them off a glass top Space Invaders arcade cabinet. More »
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What's a developer to do when the game they're bringing from the arcade to console is already just fine? Add funky dancing and crazy haircuts of course! More »
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Just when I was certain there was no new way to combine tapping fingers and music on the iPhone, Reisuke Ishida marries the aesthetic of his award-winning Space Invaders: Infinity Gene with an equally gorgeous collection of tracks in Groove Coaster. More »
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Not satisfied with aiding in the creation of the childhood-stealing Transformers and G.I. Joe movies, producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura has teamed up with Odd Lot Entertainment's Gigi Pritzker to bring Space Invaders to the silver screen. Oh joy. More »
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Here is what is believed to be the smallest playable Space Invaders arcade cabinet every built, using a ROM and parts from a Game Boy Advance. More »
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Fancy Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome has teamed up with Taito to create these Space Invaders watches that go a little above and beyond your average video game merchandising deal. More »
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Shoot'em up series Darius has a new arcade game, Darius Burst: Another Chronicle and a new series of plastic models, like this. More »
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What can the unique hardware of the Nintendo 3DS do to invigorate the 16-year-old Bust-A-Move (aka Puzzle Bobble) puzzle game series? Based on Bust-A-Move Universe, not much. This is a game that strives to be old-school on Nintendo's modern-day platform. More »
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The recent The Arcade Operators Union Entertainment Expo featured a slew of prize machines — and things that can be won from said prize machines. More »
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Singer, songwriter, actor and video game character. Claiming he was a vampire, Gackt used to say he was born in the year 1540, leaving the eternal question: Is he bonkers? More »
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The Space Invaders alien shows you where to dump on a public toilet in Germany. Don't they also have houseflies stamped on the urinals to direct your aim? Seen by reader Thorsten W. More »
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During the 1980s, game company Namco started making awesome robots. Robots! But Namco was not alone. More »
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In 1978, arcade shooter Space Invaders was so popular that it caused a national coin shortage in Japan. But it's not 1978. It's 2010. More »
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Yours for approximately US$4.50. As seen on Technabob. More »
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The folks behind Space Invaders have whipped up three slick new iPhone cases featuring the titular bad guys. More »
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We've known for a couple months that Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, last year's hit iPhone app, would get versions on both Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. A video on the game's official site says it will arrive in September. More »
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The arcade cabinets for the 1986 horizontal shooter Darius and its 1989 sequel Darius II featured a three screen set-up, giving the game a single panoramic view. More »
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Designer and motorcycle enthusiast Igor Chak's Space Invaders couch concept, which exists in the virtual world until Taito sees fit to start releasing designer furniture. More renders at Chak's personal site. More »
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Taito just released a hot little Space Invaders game for the iPad. More »
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Chrome-plated dash. Aluminum and rubber wheels. Painted racing strips. This isn't a sports car, but a luxury arcade cabinet. More »
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Scrolling shooter fans have every reason to get fired up over Xbox Live Arcade next week, when Square Enix releases the remake of Taito classic shmup, RayStorm HD. More »
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There are games that are best seen at a size bigger than a telephone. Mikado Defenders, Taito's lovely but prickly iPod Touch and iPhone tower defense game is one of them. Gamers would best play this beauty place-mat scale. More »
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Taito and silverware maker Christofle have buddied up to offer the Space Invaders fan a chance to express their love of the 1978 shoot 'em up in style. Meet the multi-use silver Space Invader "fashion accessory," coming soon. More »
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With all the talk about gloom and doom and often hangs over arcade gaming, it's nice to see a new arcade open. And open with style. More »
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More often than not, when politicians utter "video game" in a sentence, it is usually in a pejorative fashion. Here is one occasion when it wasn't. More »
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Did you ever play Space Invaders and, while you were dodging and firing and shooting, make up a story about who was in the tank and wish you could someday see them in a movie? Yeah, I didn't either. More »
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The Hughes brothers, best known for their urban crime drama Menace II Society and more recently The Book of Eli, will be bringing the cyberpunk Akira manga to the silver screen, says New York magazine. More »
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Space Invader tights by the Black Milk Collection, for $80 As seen on Too Many Tights. [Thanks, reader Sarah B.] More »
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It's Wednesday night. You have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta, your all-Rush mixtape, and, now, this impossibly good Space Invaders clone built on Futurama's epic "Raiders of the Lost Arcade" vignette from the third season of Futurama. More »
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As previously assumed, Taito's latest warming over of classic franchise—this time arcade game Qix—is officially this week's Xbox Live Arcade release of the week. Qix++ will be blocking off a space on Live Marketplace this Wednesday. More »
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If you're not excited about the possibility of playing a new Qix game on your Xbox 360, I can only assume that you've never played Qix. Or the Qix-like Gal's Panic, but I find that actually harder to believe. More »
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Square Enix amended its consolidated results forecast today, lowering its income projections for the fiscal year, which is now half over. Severance payments to get rid of some Taito employees and the company's takeover of Eidos were blamed. More »
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South Korean idol group Girls' Generation appears in a tasty noodle commercial, singing a very happy and familiar song. More »
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In an inverse Coors-Blue-Mountains way, this tea vessel shows blue pixelated Space Invaders when the contents are, of course, the hottest-tasting beer tea in the world. More »
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