Photo Play is happy to announce due to impressive results a new news quiz game in conjunction with Finnish Radio Station Iskelmä is already underway. [more information]
Highwaygames welcomes Mary Kearns as their news editor. Mary will be playing a key role in the following months to bring you the latest news and products. [more information]
Stern Pinball's TERMINATOR® 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES™. Designed by Steve Ritchie, formerly of Williams, T3™ combines all the intensity of this non-stop action movie with pinball at its fastest and most daring. [more information]
Elo TouchSystems, Inc., announced the signing of a private labeling and distribution agreement with Zytronic Displays Limited of Blaydon-on-Tyne, United Kingdom. [more information]
Brent Sales, exclusive European distributor for US company ICE, is about to receive the 1,000th Kiddie Coaster to have come out of the organisation's Buffalo manufacturing base. [more information]
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd shares plunged nearly 40 per cent today, after the world's second biggest slot machine maker warned it would post a loss and slash its dividend. [more information]
Terminator III pinball features an interactive backbox animation and action feature, and will be released in late June/July. Please contact us soon to reserve stock from the first shipment. [more information]
Players travel between stages based loosely on "Saving Private Ryan" story lines. Already very successful as 4 player machine, this 2 player allows operators to place in smaller arcades and street site locations. [more information]
VirTra Systems, Inc has announced it has been invited to demonstrate its judgmental use-of-force training systems at The Homeland Security and Defense Seminar. [more information]
Recently Sega has called off talks with pinball and pachinko machine maker Sammy Corp., concluding that the union would not yield the anticipated benefits. [more information]
France-American video game publisher Infogrames Inc., reaching back into gaming history, said on Wednesday it would change its name to Atari Inc. [more information]
*Confusion Hides Red Faces
*More Confusion Regarding Japanese Developer
*Highnoon for Midway!
*New Simulator Attraction Builds Interest
*GameWorks on the Menu [more information]
Cliff Wilson, international sales manager with Namco Europe, has announced his retirement from the industry he has spent three decades in. [more information]
Happ Controls Europe Ltd has announced a major step in increasing its market share across Europe, by way of a partnership with E'Coin Spares & Service BV. [more information]
*Consumer Changes Benefit Coin-Op
*Major Atlus Stock Acquisition!
*UK Seaside In the Middle of Turf War!
*Namco's New Facility Experiment Revealed!
*London Dome Project Gets Green light [more information]
The Polish Parliament is working on amendments to the Gaming Bill (Project 771), which will introduce licensing for the siting of limited payout machines in legal operations. [more information]
Elo TouchSystems, Inc., has announced ZBorder, one of a series of enhancements to its popular AccuTouch fivewire resistive touch technology. [more information]
To coincide is the launch of the "Matrix Reload" on 15th May, the fun.net International team too is working on final preparations for it's game tie [more information]
The MONOPOLY redemption game is brought to you by Stern Pinball, Inc., Hasbro, Inc. and Pat Lawlor Design who also brought you the MONOPOLY pinball machine. [more information]
Due to the second SARS outbreak, the organizer has made a difficult decision and postponed the upcoming Taiwan GTI 2003 EXPO until October. [more information]
The second annual European i-Gaming Congress & Expo (EiG) will take place at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos, Barcelona, Spain on 11-12 November 2003. [more information]
Well-known industry personality John Brennan has joined Namco Europe. John – who has in excess of 30 years' industry experience with a range of organisations. [more information]
Ham On Rye Technologies, Inc. announced the results for the first-ever Ham On Rye Theater installed in Brazil at Playcenter Sao Paulo. [more information]
UK-based spares, components and equipment supplier, Brent Electronic has announced the launch of its Secur-It alarm, an easy-to-install boxed alarm. [more information]
Following the success of Initial D in the single sit down cabinet Sega Amusements Europe Ltd will be releasing the sequel Initial D 2 in May. [more information]
IAAPA has decided to move the trade show forward to 2004, the dates for 2004 have been set from 14 to 16 July 2004 at the original venue, Suntec Singapore. [more information]
The Interactive Gambling, Gaming and Betting Association (iGGBA) today welcomed the publication of the Government's paper ‘Future Regulation of Remote Gambling' [more information]
The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) has announced the cancellation of Asian Amusement Expo (AAE) 2003, due to the outbreak of SARS. [more information]
In the week before the big Easter weekend FX Simulation have completed the installation of Haven Holidays second U2 Mirage at their Devon Cliffs site on the south coast. [more information]
PELIKA net Oy has positioned Photo Play terminals on or beside the tables of the outlets of 50 Shell-petrol stations. A special stand makes this possible even in the case of smaller tables. [more information]
The New Year has seen sales of Elton Games popular Derby machines soar, making them run out of the factory quicker than they can be manufactured. [more information]
The latest arcade motherboard system has now arrived from Sammy. This features a fully adaptable motherboard system that allows driving, shooting, joystick and linked play with the first game arriving being Guilty Gear X (1.5). [more information]
Japanese game software maker Namco Ltd have announce it had proposed a merger with fellow game software developer Sega Corp (which is already in merger talks with Sammy Corp). A Namco-Sega merger, if realised, would create Japan's largest game software company with annual sales of 350 billion yen ($2.9 billion). [more information]
The presentation of the first digital pinball was an overwhelming success at the exhibitions in January 2003. TAB-Austria, the worldwide known touch screen manufacturer, introduces a new direction and product – the Virtual Pinball. [more information]
At this years ATEI Sega Amusements Europe Ltd concluded negotiations with Simuline Inc of Korea to exclusively distribute their latest interactive motion simulator called Cycraft. [more information]
Virtua Cop 3 will launch in Europe as a Deluxe cabinet for delivery at the end of May. Which will follow with a new upright cabinet based on the Universal Naomi cabinet in early June. [more information]
The 2nd International Gaming & Entertainment Expo orginally scheduled foe April 24-26, 2003 has been postponed due to situation & unforeseeable circumstances concerning Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (S.A.R.S.). [more information]
New product developments in European markets will take centre stage at the forthcoming Eurotechno on 22 May. Together with a revised format, the Barcelona conference is poised to bring senior industry executives up to date with the latest trends and projects taking place across European coin-op and gaming markets. [more information]
Gary Stern and Pat Lawlor of Stern Pinball recently presented "The Science of pinball; The Making of a Pinball Machine," to an excited crowd at Chicago's famous Museum of Science and Industry. [more information]
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