TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese superhero Ultraman vanquishes an evil enemy during a live performance at a Tokyo games arcade. But Ultraman's real battle is proving much harder -- enticing customers back ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the things which always strikes games industry types when they visit Japan is the rude health of the arcade business in the country. Although it goes through ups and downs like most businesses, ...

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 ...

A former managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who recently became one of the very few female leaders of a listed company in Japan is setting her sights on becoming the dominant player in the ...

The new arcade release will retain the gameplay balance from the latest version of Virtua Fighter 3tb while adding the online matching features built for Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown and support ...

"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 ...