It is now less than 100 days until Hot Games Show 2007 gets underway. The event will take place from 7-9 of September at the Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan, and will be a high quality event on the international exhibition calendar. [more information]
The creative minds at TAB-Austria have worked themselves into a frenzy, with Arkanoid Battle marking the sixth new Premium Game released by the company for the Silverball terminal this year. [more information]
Merit Entertainment has announced the release of its next great photo hunting game, Photo-Pop™. A MegaNet® exclusive, it is the first of Merit's new set of Sneak Peek Games™, and will only be available to MegaNet subscribers. [more information]
Namco Europe/Brent Sales has made its first entry into the Far East amusements sector with a next generation prize vendor designed for the global marketplace. The London-based company paraded the ‘Froggit Junior' to visitors at the GTI Expo, held in Taipei, Taiwan across 10-12 May. [more information]
For the past year, Merit Entertainment has been working with police, governments and courts around the globe, helping to crack down on intellectual property theft and piracy. Merit recently worked with Morris County Prosecutors Office in the investigation of Nisan Naveh, who was recently arrested for alleged trademark infringement, and the alleged selling of counterfeit gaming consoles and computer software from his home. [more information]
California Extreme, the pinball and classic video games show held at the San Jose Convention Center, is gearing up for our 11th annual show. It will be held on August 11 - 12, 2007 at Parkside Hall. [more information]
‘Pirates' is now available as multiplayer game on all linked online Photoplay terminals. ‘Pirates' was introduced by Photo Play together with System 2006 and has since become one of the most successful games. [more information]
The annual trade show for amusement and theme parks in the United Arab Emirates region was held at the end of April. With a reported 180 companies from 32 countries, making a growth rate of 20% over the 2006 show. [more information]
Sammy Atomiswave arcade sitdown cabinet Sale is now on, with container based orders accepted for premium arcade cabinet. Machines include sammy atomiswave motherboard and game cartridge (assorted titles). [more information]
On May 12th, two amusement trade associations will have to present a plan to their executive boards for the promotion of the industry. Both AMOA and AAMA have decided they should do something to reverse poor or non-existent coverage of this industry by the mainstream consumer media. [more information]
Players caught spring fever during the Merit Madness TournaMAXX™ Tournament from Merit Entertainment®. This TournaMAXX event ran during March of this year and featured wild competition on one of the all-time favorite Megatouch® games, 11UP™. [more information]
The international company Avalue Technology, headquartered in Taiwan. Has teamed up with a group of IPC professionals in HW/SW design, mechanical development, technical support and sales coordination. To seamless integrate Avalue hardware and software. [more information]
Our product database has been updated with all the crane machines of popular Australian manufacturer Win n Grin. There crane machines range in size and style, and include tie ins with popular company's like Cadbury's Chocolate. [more information]
This Week it was announced that Leon Deith has set up a new Online company which will be promoting the sale of Fine Art, from some of the UK's top Artists. [more information]
Original Astro City 2 Player Control Panels are now in stock. Easily replace (plug and play) your old Sega control panels to recondition your arcade machine. Made in Japan using Seimitsu buttons and joysticks. [more information]
As of today 23rd of April, Sega Amusements Europe Ltd has moved from it's existing Epsom office and has taken 25,000 sq ft of office, warehouse and showroom space in Chessington, Surrey. [more information]
In an effort to stop Merit copies from leaving China, Robert C. Fay, Merit's Director of Government Relations, conducted training sessions late March 2007 in the Guangzhou Customs District, the Huangpu Customs District and Shenzhen Customs District. [more information]
The only pinball show in the Rocky Mountain region and one of the largest in the nation, the fourth annual Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown will be held April 27-29, 2007, at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds in Golden, Colorado, USA. [more information]
Family Guy, Stern Pinball's latest creation has begun shipping. Based on the smash hit animated comedy by Seth McFarlane, the pinball features artwork of the all the classic characters. To make the pinball suitable for all ages, it offers three different adjustable levels of speech (Adult, Moderate and Family). [more information]
Advanced CGA and EGA to VGA LCD panels now in stock. Available in a variety of sizes including 10, 15, 17 & 19 Inch. These panels are a open frame designed, which can accept a wide range of RGB inputs including 15khz, 18khz, 21khz, 25khz and many more. [more information]
Arcade Monitors now in stock. Replace your old faded monitor with a brand new flat monitor and bring your arcade cabinet back to life. Also suitable for Cocktail cabinets, Mame cabinets or as replacements for industrial monitors. [more information]
The Mary Openshaw Memorial Award For Excellence was inaugurated at Ireland's AmEx 2004 in memory of the late Mary Openshaw, the renowned journalist, based in Brussels, Belgium, who served the international amusement industry for over 35 years. [more information]
The second part of the product wrap up from AOU'07. Including Banpresto, Taito including additions to the Taito Type X2 line up, Capcom and others. [more information]
As a specialist in development, production and vending of touch screen based entertainment terminals funworld ag, seated in Lenzing, announces the entrance of a new shareholder. As a result of the recapitalisation of the international successful Upper Austrian company, Hannes Niederhauser an Austrian living in Germany, is now holding 40 percent of the funworld shares. [more information]
Magnetic Cash has supplied it's debit card system into a new location in Honduras. At the end of last year the Honduran company opened it's 13th location, The Game Company, at Las Cascadas Mall in Tegucigalpa, Federal District of Honduras. [more information]
The decision of the European Court of Justice on the Placanica case was published on 6th March 2007. This decision will mean a lot of changes in the gaming industry in Europe and probably be one of the biggest steps in the direction of liberalising the European gaming market. [more information]
With most of devices these days being wireless, phones, laptops, portable gaming devices. It sends and receives WI-FI signals and is secure by using 64/128 WEP data Encryption with support for WPA and AES advanced WLAN security. [more information]
A DVI splitter simple enough for home users, but powerful enough for professionals. This converter will take any Digital DVI signal (DVI-D) and produce 2 identical signals as outputs. This output signal, suffers no degrading, even if connecting to devices 15 metres away(using standard DVI cable). [more information]
Ireland's Coin-Op Expo - AmEx 2007 - The 28th Irish Amusement & Gaming Trade Exhibition & Seminars was held at the Lynch Green Isle Hotel,
Dublin on Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7 March 2007. [more information]
The All Nippon Amusement Machine Operators (AOU) Expo 2007 took a phenomenal slice of the Chiba's Makuhari Messe facility. AOU represents an operator's show, in contrast to JAMMA that is a manufacturers' show - both association events experiencing their own changes. [more information]
Frederick Milner founder and managing director of Bondeal Ltd and Bondeal Sales International of Hong Kong past away february 28th. He had been greatly involved with amusement industry for 25 years. [more information]
The 2nd Hot Games Show has started the booth reservation and is expected to be much larger than last year. Also the transportation is also much more convenient than last year. [more information]
AmEx 2007 - 28th Irish Amusement & Gaming Trade Exhibition & Seminars will be held at the Lynch Green Isle Hotel, Dublin on Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7 March 2007. Opening hours will be from noon to 6pm both days. Pre-registrations for the event are up considerably on last year and the number of exhibitors has also increased. [more information]
ATEI London 2007 has no doubt marked another huge success for Tecway! This year, Tecway participated this big event-ATEI show 2007 in London as first time exhibitors. Their booth was packed with many significant directorial executives to discuss about future cooperation. Once again, this showed another big step in it's representing themselves successfully to customers from Europe. [more information]
Bensalem, PA - Bob Fay, Director of Government Relations at Merit Entertainment, has confirmed that illegal copiers of Merit products have pleaded guilty and received sentences in both Hong Kong and China. [more information]
HDMI Digital scaler with ultra high bandwidth allows the user to upscale all their devices TV, VCRs, DVDs, etc to up HDMI for maximum quality viewing on these HDTV sets. [more information]
Scart to HDTV and PC Converter is a versitile unit capable of taking up to four inputs 2 Scart, 1 Composite (AV) and 1 S-Video and scaling this up to HDTV or PC. Allowing you to make the best of your High Definition screen. [more information]
DVI with Digital Audio to HDMI Converter is a professional unit that can take your Digital Video (DVI) & Audio (SPDIF) signal from your PC or HD device and convert it into HDMI which is a combined Video and Audio fully digital signal. [more information]
The 63rd Amusement Trade Exhibition International (ATEI) was one of the most eagerly anticipated and discussed in recent years. A barometer of the industry health. The London show had a hard act to follow, let alone the impact of its sibling show, the International Casino Exhibition (ICE), with the smaller International Casino Exhibition Online (ICEi) component. [more information]
Brent Sales, part of the Namco Bandai group, is predicting a bright international future for its Rollerball 11-videogame compendium, following response to its appearance at ATEI. [more information]
Building on the momentum of GTI '06, which saw over 800 booths packed full of the latest products on offer. GTI 2007 is shaping up to be even bigger. Even though GTI is based in Taiwan it impacts all of asia and features buyers from more than 60 countries around the world. [more information]
From February 20th to 22nd Belgrade will host the GAMING EXPO BELGRADE, the first event of this type in the South-East European region. [more information]
The next generation in theatre attractions has been a movable feast for the entertainment simulation sector – current development of 4D passive attractions have not been seen as enough of an ‘E-Ticket' compared to the rollercoaster or big budget attraction. But this technology has a hidden punch. [more information]
GTI EXPO 2007 which is organized by Game Time International (GTI) Magazine will take place in B & C Zones of Taipei World Trade Center on May 10~12. The first wave of confirmations from exhibitors has been concluded with overwhelming response. [more information]
Recent developments in Ireland indicate that in addition to exhibitors
and visitors from the amusement and gaming sectors, there will also be
considerable interest in AmEx 2007 from those involved in the casino,
betting and online gaming sectors. [more information]
Connect this Internet ready USB coin mech to your computer via your computers USB port. An intelligent multi-coin selector that can memorise and recognise 5 different types of coins with different signals; it can be connected to a computer by an RS-232 interface or USB adapter. [more information]
Quicksilver, Britain's largest chain of Adult Gaming Centres (AGCs), has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of 38-year old Andrew Howe to the post of Operations Director. Howe, a qualified lawyer who has spent eight years in the leisure industry, reports directly to Talarius CEO Nick Harding. [more information]
The European hospitality and entertainment sector is soon to be greeted by the most comprehensive change in revenue since the pub, bar, and club industry was founded. Where New York, Belfast and Glasgow have gone, London – and the rest of the UK – will follow with a comprehensive smoking ban to take effect on July 1st 2007. [more information]
Tecway has signed a joint venture agreement with Mecpower, a successful redemption game manufacturer in China. Tecway and Mecpower have been working with each other for more than 10 years. In the past, Tecway is only responsible for distributing Mecpower's redemption machines. [more information]
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