The phrase “kill two birds with one stone” is oft repeated, but it applies well for anyone looking to get a double dose of education this March. The Foundations Entertainment University is set to be hosted alongside this year’s AAMA/AMOA Amusement Expo International. FEU takes place March 24-25, with AEI starting the next day on March 26. FEU helps entrepreneurial voices and visions be heard and seen. The event ties together a smorgasbord of potential educational subjects into a high-adrenaline, two-day class. Some topics set to be covered this year include building a perfect team (presented by Frank Price), how…
Author: Matt Harding
Microsoft recently announced the opening of a new 300,000 sq. ft. Halo theme park and Betson will be right in the thick of it! The distributor is set to supply some Halo: Fireteam Raven two-player arcade games for the Halo: Outpost Discovery Tour, so fans attending the park have a chance to immerse themselves in a Halo experience. The park will tour the world to excite and entice Halo fans, heading to take over five convention centers in major cities. Organizers hope to deliver an expansive look at the fictional universe of the popular first person shooter franchise through VR,…
With an old bowling alley in town recently closed, Meridian, Miss., residents won’t have to wait too long for a new place to bowl. The owners of the former Family Bowl Lanes will be bringing a new concept to a new location – Event Zona in East Gate Plaza. According to The Meridian Star, the new center will feature 16 lanes, an arcade, a trampoline area and other entertainment options, in addition to a pizza kitchen. It will be built next to a new Planet Fitness in the plaza, partially in an old Winn Dixie grocery store. Event Zona already…
Pop in your quarter and cruise around in your new pinball – oh wait, that’s the 2020 Toyota Supra! The car company ran an ad during the Super Bowl called “Wizard,” which you can watch in full here, featuring its new sports car as a shiny silver pinball racing around a pinball machine-like track. The car, which officially debuted at the Detroit Auto Show in January, according to Yahoo Sports, will be priced at around $50,000 when it hits dealership showrooms this summer. That cash could buy a whole lotta pinball machines though, so spend wisely.
Holoverse, which claims to be “the world’s first holographic arcade,” will open its first location in the Middle East mid-month in the Oman Avenues Mall, according to Y Magazine. Created by the Australian company Euclideon Entertainment, Holoverse offers 3D hologram gaming experiences designed to compete with virtual reality. Using their technology, lifelike projections are created using lasers, making objects out of light that float in the air around players. Their first location on Australia’s Gold Coast opened in July 2016. The new center in Muscat, Oman, will have at least six holographic gaming tables. “Euclideon and Al Tamman Group have…
To celebrate its popular music and dance video game Pump It Up, Andamiro has created a brand-new software system with new music and graphics for the game’s 20th anniversary. It’s shipping now in the company’s current Pump It Up LX cabinet. Upgrade kits featuring the new software are also available. Dubbed PIU-XX, the game was first featured in November at IAAPA, and more than 40 speed and freestyle dance enthusiasts, known as “Pumpers,” showed up specifically to play the game, which is already popping up in game rooms across the U.S. The new game ships with 500 songs, 100 of…