The original GameWorks location in Seattle is back open, according to Seattle Met, following the closure of all company locations at the end of 2021. Howard Brand and former GameWorks CEO Greg Stevens, with the help of former COO Des Roches, relaunched the location. Visitors will find the same familiar bunch of retro games like Pac-Man to modern-day VR like Beat Saber. The venue will also still have its esports lounge featuring PlayStations, Xboxes and rows of comfy lounge chairs. Visit www.gameworks.com for more information.
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The amusement park Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, is adding its 18th roller coaster for the 2023 season, reports the Akron Beacon Journal. The company announced recently that in a nod to its past, it will add a classic Wild Mouse coaster, reimagined with spinning cars, and create a new Boardwalk section in the park. The coaster will feature seven cars that spin a full 360-degrees as it navigates 1,312 feet of bright orange track. Manufactured by Zamperla, the Wild Mouse will reach a height of 52 feet and have six mouth-themed cars and one cheese-themed car. The park’s old…
Triotech will be at IAAPA Expo Europe in London this Sept. 13-15. The company will showcase their new stand-up theater attraction on the show floor at booth #1317. The attraction is “part dynamic simulator, part flying theater.” “We’re excited to meet our clients, prospects, partners and friends in London,” said Yannick Gemme, Triotech’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “We have a lot of announcements and projects to share. The European market is strategic for Triotech and we work in close collaboration with our French division CL Corp to develop exciting attractions aimed at this segment.” Special effects that are…
In the “summer of Maverick,” Intercard said they’re sending their own “Top Gun,” client success manager Jason Mitchell, to the first in-person CinéShow in three years. The event will be held in Dallas from Aug. 22-24. “I really missed the show during its hiatus and I’m excited to be back with products that haven’t been seen in the theater industry yet,” Mitchell said. “Intercard continued to develop its technology during the pandemic and I will have some exciting new software and hardware to demo for theater owners.” “Intercard has many satisfied customers in the exhibition industry,” added CEO Scott Sherrod.…
The BullShooter Invitational Shootout will be aired on ESPN2 tomorrow, Aug. 13, at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Watch four elite dart players compete in the game of 501 Open In/Double Out Split Bull; the winner takes home a $10,000 purse. “We are very excited to team up with ESPN to be able to televise the first-ever BullShooter Invitational Shootout,” said Shawn Beall, one of the owners of Arachnid 360. The first BullShooter tournament was developed in 1986. They have 16 global regionals and the BullShooter European Championships that lead to the spring’s BullShooter World Finals. To learn more about joining…
Longtime organizer Rob Berk recently filled RePlay in on plans for the upcoming 2022 Pinball Expo, which will be held at the same venue as last year, the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois. This year’s event will be held Oct. 19-22 and already has a lot of fan-favorite events and experiences lined up, including speakers, Hall of Fame, tournaments, exhibits and the Stern factory tour. Said Berk, “There is all of this and so much more with new things developing daily.” Berk reported a growing international involvement in the event and that among the highlights this year will be…
Replay Lincoln Park, the arcade bar in Chicago, has transformed into the world of Jurassic Park for its latest pop-up experience, which will run through Sept. 5. According to Block Club Chicago, the venue has been decorated with giant dinosaurs, custom-built vehicles, island foliage and other nods to the movie franchise. Specialty cocktails like Not My Gumdrops, The Laura Dern and Chaos Theory will also be available. The bar will host weekly Jurassic Park trivia nights and DJ sets from Wednesday through Saturday. The more than 60 vintage arcade games in the bar are set to free play. Learn more…
Variety recently reported that actor Justin Baldoni is hoping to bring a live-action version of the classic Pac-Man to the big screen. Baldoni’s production company Wayfarer Studios is backing the film based on the arcade game, along with Bandai Namco Entertainment. Details surrounding the movie are scant, but video game-based movies like the Sonic the Hedgehog series have been seeing a whole lot of box office success so it’s no surprise that more are on the way.
SPREE Interactive recently partnered with the manufacturer Eurogames to launch the first of many battery-powered VR bumper car attractions. Licensed by VR Coaster, the first was installed at the La Grande Mela Mall in Verona, Italy. “We are always looking for new creative solutions to draw in customers at our client locations,” said Filippo Tracquilio, owner of To Get srl. “We chose SPREE and Eurogames as they provide an immersive VR entertainment solution that creates a unique interactive experience between players.” The VR Space Bumper Car attraction, the company’s first, comes with four circular battery-powered cars that only require a…
One of the oldest “active” route operators in the country, Charles (Chuck) Arnold, has died in Orlando, Fla., at the age of 96. The coin-op industry veteran was officially retired but continued his career by helping his son out on their Arnold Amusements route. After serving two years with the Coast Guard during World War II and college (which he attended via night school), he married his wife Mildred. Following several years serving in a variety of jobs, he got the coin-op bug. Chuck’s career in the coin machine business goes back at least to 1979 when he joined the…