White Rose Bar & Grill is a restaurant in downtown York, Pa., that’s been open since 1933. Next week, after 80-plus years in business, owners are opening White Rose at Bridgewater – a restaurant with an arcade and 9-hole golf course. The rear terrace of White Rose overlooks the recently renovated golf course, which is already open, according to the York Daily Record. The 290-seat restaurant – split into the main bar, an outdoor patio and arcade – is set to open April 8. CEO of White Rose Restaurant Group Tom Sibol said the arcade hall, with its more than…
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Last week, the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed the recently-opened Quarters Bar+Arcade with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The owners, Luke and Emily Kunselman, were there to showcase the business’ drinks and games, according to the Longmont Observer. Quarters has 20 self-serve taps with 15 beers, three ciders and two wines. Games include two Skee-Balllanes, pinballs, a claw machine and 12 other arcade games, which are operated on a wrist band system. Big Buck Safari, Area 51: Site 4 and Mortal Kombat 4 are among the games. There’s no food at the arcade bar, but they’ve got hungry patrons covered: Quarters partnered with…
Usually, our location news revolves around renovations and openings, but this one’s about a closure. According to The Morning Call, Revolutions at Saucon Valley, a 40,000-sq.-ft. facility featuring a bowling alley, arcade, restaurant and more, closed this past weekend. The Lower Saucon Township, Penn., location was in business for six years and didn’t give any reasons as to why they closed. Frank Entertainment, the movie theater and family entertainment chain that owned it, couldn’t be reached for comment either. Other Revolutions venues have closed recently as well – the Philadelphia location last summer and a location in Rock Hill, S.C.…
At the April 24-May 5 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, attendees will be transported to 10,000 BC with a virtual reality experience from the NYU Future Reality Lab. CAVE, co-created by Ken Perlin, Kris Layng and Sebastian Herscher, will take viewers back thousands of years, “when stories were told around a campfire and the history of our ancestors was written on the walls of caves.” The film was designed to challenge the status quo of how audiences experience immersive arts and entertainment.
Valve, known for its shooting games like Half-Life and Portal, is officially in the VR headset market after it verified a leak of its upcoming product. According to CNET, the game maker recently confirmed it’s going to start preorders for the Valve Index headset May 1 and that the product is due to ship June 15. It’ll be sold alongside the company’s new “knuckles” controllers, which they say allows for better control of VR games and apps. No word yet on price, but it’s expected to compete with Facebook’s Oculus Rift, Sony’s PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive, which has been…
The former AMF Bradenton Lanes in the Florida city of the same name is now Bowlero Bradenton after an extensive makeover by the New York-based bowling chain. Set to open April 6, the new location will be the company’s fifth in Florida. The venue has 64 lanes, an arcade with games like Mario Kart, The Giant Crane and Sink It, as well as billiards, air hockey and corn hole. The 59,000-sq.-ft. space was transformed from a fluorescent-lit alley into a “sleek, warm, and intimate environment that brings bowling to an entirely new level,” according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. For more info…
National ATM Council executive director Bruce Renard recently testified before Alaska’s House Labor & Commerce Committee in favor of allowing cardholder surcharges on international transactions conducted at independent ATMs throughout the state. The measure, HB044, got a 5-1 vote in committee and now awaits consideration in the House Rules Committee. NAC has been part of a two-year effort to close the legal loophole. “Independent ATM companies have been precluded from charging a reasonable fee for providing ATM services to international visitors in Alaska,” Renard said. “This has placed a ‘hidden tax’ on Alaskan cardholders and penalized Alaska’s small businesses who…
The 7th annual Amusement-Attraction, Park-Recreation Exhibition (ATRAX) held this year in Istanbul, Turkey from Feb. 14-16 hosted 173 companies from 21 countries. Already set for Feb. 13-15, 2020 at the Istanbul Expo Center, ATRAX says it’s the sole specialized exhibition in the nearby region for the entertainment industry. “Happy Cities” was the theme this year, which aimed to bring to the forefront attraction projects that “create more opportunities for socializing.” More information is available at www.atraxexpo.com.
A new virtual reality headset from HP with inside-out tracking is scheduled for a late April release, according to the company, which showed the product at last week’s Amusement Expo. The HP Reverb pro edition, priced at $649, features a whopping panel resolution of 2160 x 2160 per eye and a 114-degree field of view. It weighs in at 1.1 pounds, has integrated Bluetooth, headphones with spatial audio and dual microphones for a “greater immersive experience.” It supports Windows Mixed Reality and Steam VR. “With more than 2,500 VR experiences available and counting, Windows Mixed Reality continues to serve as…
Celebrating the upcoming 27th birthday of the text message, first sent by engineer Neil Papworth on Dec. 3, 1992, LAI Games is back with a sequel to its Textminator game. Textminator 2 can be set up for ticket dispensing or amusement only, features stunning LED lighting and gameplay “as habit-forming as any app.” It has four built-in games and more in development, according to LAI. The first, Generation Gap, will be a hit among the older crowd, racing against a clock as they try to interpret modern acronyms. Another, Selfie Time, will judge if players take good selfies, based on…