Japan news source The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports that Sega Corp. and Namco Ltd. & Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., will join forces to distribute games, movies and advertisements online. [more information]
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) and SEGA Corporation (SEGA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a new service that combines NTT DoCoMo's i-mode phone and video arcade game machines equipped with SEGA's "NAOMI" arcade board. [more information]
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd., the world's second-largest slot-machine maker, said second-half profit rose 4 percent as it overcame government restrictions on gambling by expanding in the United States. [more information]
GigaMedia, a leading provider in Taiwan of broadband Internet access services and Chinese broadband content, has announced the expiration of the letter of intent with Sega.com Asia Ltd. [more information]
Arcade Planet, Inc., has signed an agreement with McDonald's Corporation to provide software and hardware technology to operate McMaginationä, a children's video game computer system available at participating McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. [more information]
Merit Industries is pleased to announce the appointment of Cosmic Video Amusement as the exclusive distributor for all Megatouch products in the UK. [more information]
Plenty of new products will be unveiled at AOU Trade Show in Japan next week including new motion sensor boxing game from Konami, drum machine from Namco and a top golf game from Sega. [more information]
WoW Entertainment, a Sega Subsidiary, has announced they have signed a deal with Namco to jointly develop future arcade titles, with their first release, Vampire Nights, to be shown at next week's AOU Trade Show. [more information]
Iwerks has recently announced the signing of a contract to provide an Iwerks TurboRide simulation theater and custom film production for DAYTONA USA, the official attraction of NASCAR at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. [more information]
uWink have announced the availability of e-greeting cards on its terminals. The Greeting Card program began this week with the download of a Valentine's Day greeting, which allowed players to send online cards to their loved ones directly from the uWink terminals. [more information]
A dozen of the biggest video game publishers jointly filed a series of lawsuits against four Web site operators this week for allegedly distributing pirated software over the Internet. [more information]
The American Dave & Buster's (D&B) theme restaurant has officially arrived in Taiwan, making its debut in the TaiMall Nakan Family Entertainment Shopping Center in Taoyuan County. [more information]
uWink today announced the kickoff of Club Wink, free to game patrons and entitling them to sneak previews of upcoming games, free games, access to tournaments and much more. [more information]
ATE Ltd has commissioned a new corporate logo. The design, which had its first public airing at January's ATEI has been developed as a means of consolidating all of the company's growing range of activities under one umbrella brand. [more information]
Smart Industries will be promoting their new Prize Circus and Big Load at next month's ASI Trade Show in Las Vegas. Both are innovative crane machines which are tipped to be very popular with players. [more information]
SHOW&RECREATION 2001 will be held between 10-13 May 2001 at Istanbul Convention Center, showcasing latest developments in Stage & Show Technologies, Lunapark Equipment, and more. [more information]
Midway plans to improve on recent poor results with new software on new generation platforms, whilst moving away from arcade, Nintendo 64 and Playstation I. [more information]
Post show statistics released by organisers of ATEI, Euroshow and ICE reveal that more buyers attended the 2001 event than at any other time in the exhibition's history. [more information]
Recent reports show Sydney's poker machines are earning $45,000 net profit each year with more concerns that low income people are adding gaming into their weekly budgets at the expense of food. [more information]
"Bemani", Konami's multi music system, allows up to five players to simultaneously play together using guitars, keyboards, and drums - all in harmony. [more information]
uWink today announced the free download of "Zillionaire: Rainbow Edition," the Gay/Lesbian version of its popular trivia game "Zillionaire". Rainbow Edition, which was downloaded today, follows uWink's "Sports Zillionaire", which, after its introduction two weeks ago, has become another blockbuster trivia hit for the company. [more information]
Twin Galaxies is launching a global campaign to identify "top gaming superstars" in their next edition of their Book of World Records. [more information]
The ATEI is set to announce record figures for the show that has become synonymous with excellence in the industry, according to the UK weekly Coin Slot attendance was 19,952 in the first two days alone. With a 25% increase in international visitors. [more information]
Whilst it is reported that Capcom will not have its own booth at the upcoming AOU Japanese Trade Show, it does intend to show products on both Sega and Namco's stands. Currently, both Namco and Capcom are working on Biohazard, a machine gun shooting game that went out on test a few days ago. [more information]
With two major expansions in two years, Six Flags Great Adventure have announced its newest roller coaster, a mile-long ride the park is touting as "a new breed of thrill experience." [more information]
uWink in conjuction with Medalist Corp, have successfully staged the first live tournament which took place at the Flamingo Hotel Casino in Reno, Nevada, January 18th – 20th. The live tournament, in which 600 players competed for $25,000.00 in cash prizes, is a first for the world of coin-op. [more information]
* Sega 2001 Coin-Op Games
* Capcom To Offer PCs to Arcades
* Moody's Downgrade Sega
* Banpresto Announces Internet Prize Games
* Salaryman As Star?
* Konami "Sniper" on Test
* Sega To Manufacture/Sell Newest "Street Fighter" Game [more information]
Sega will stop manufacturing Dreamcast at the end of March, 2001, and has announced games which will be seen on Sony and Nintendo platforms. The shutting down of Dreamcast will generate $689 million in extraordinary losses. [more information]
Illusion have announced two of their SpeedSports™ racecars were installed at a major entertainment center that recently opened in Anaheim, California. [more information]
In one of the biggest tender offers placed by a Japanese firm, Konami will purchase 11.32 million shares of People at a cost of more than $US 600 million. [more information]
INSKOR Entertainment Limited announced today that it will launch a new generation of Interactive Entertainment Simulator (IES) systems for the Out-Of-Home entertainment market. [more information]
The minimum amount gamblers can put into some poker machines in Australia could rise to $10 under a plan to modify machines so they no longer accept $5 notes. [more information]
Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. and computer maker Compaq Computer Corp. have developed a computer system so that kids can play the latest video games in McDonald's restaurants. [more information]
As Sega trys to return to profitability, news filters through that Sega will be dropping the Dreamcast platform and develop software for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. [more information]
With the help of a new management team, VisionLand amusement park, which at one point owed $3.2 million and was on the verge of bankruptcy, has shown a return to profits. [more information]
Big Buck Hunter, Incredible Technologies' newest coin-op video game, is now in full production and shipping to distribution. Developed in conjunction with Play Mechanix, Big Buck Hunter has been thoroughly tested throughout the USA with strong results. [more information]
Happ Controls has recently introduced "EHapp", their new online shopping cart ordering system. The EHapp shopping cart system allows secure on line ordering showing current prices and availability, 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. [more information]
NSW Opposition and Pharmacy Guild of Australia have both expressed their concerns about proposals to allow the introduction of painkiller dispensing machines. [more information]
The 4th China Amusement Expo is due to be held at the China World Trade Centre in Beijing from the 1st - 4th August, 2001. Based on past attendances by both exhibitors and visitors, the organisers are expecting this year's event to be just as successful if not more so than past events. [more information]
Stern Pinball will be releasing their High Roller Pinball at the end of this month. The game features many casino games on the playfield including shooting the ball through a slot machine and onto a roulette wheel. [more information]
IT have announced that State Sales and Service Corp. of Baltimore, Maryland has been chosen to be the exclusive distributor of its products in the Middle East, Africa, India, Greece, Cyprus and Eastern Europe. [more information]
Konami have announced this week that they are releasing games on NTT's new range of Java ready 503 series mobile phones. The first game to be released will be Dance Dance Revolution followed by remakes of both old and new games. [more information]
Highway Entertainment