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Bandai Namco will hold a location test for its upcoming arcade game The Idolmaster Tours at the Amusement Expo in late November 2023.

Sega will have a booth showcasing its arcade games at the Amusement Expo in Tokyo Big Sight, which will take place in late November 2023.

Yoichi Wada Has Become an Outside Board Member of Genda Genda announced that it added former Square Enix President Yoichi Wada as an outside board member. The company, currently known for running Sega’s amusement facilities, added that Wada’s management experience will help it build an even stronger management structure. [Thanks, 4Gamer!] Born in 1959, Yoichi Wada quickly rose through the ranks in his career after joining Square in April 2000. In just eight months, he became the CEO of the ...

Bandai Namco Will No Longer Handle Amusement Facilities in America Bandai Namco Holdings published a press release stating its intent to withdraw from the amusement facility business in North America by transferring related assets to three unnamed companies. [Thanks, DenFamiNico Gamer.] The company group made the decision to withdraw as the COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted business . Its subsidiary company, Namco USA Inc, handled the group’s amusement facilities since its establishment in J...

Initial D The Arcade Will Launch This February In Japan Sega has confirmed that it will release Initial D The Arcade in Japan on February 25, 2021. The upcoming arcade game, which adds 4-player races for the first time in the series, will effectively replace  Initial D Arcade Stage Zero, the currently ongoing iteration. [Thanks, 4Gamer!] Sega is planning to hold one more live stream before the new arcade game’s launch on February 19, 2021, at 20:00 JST (6 AM ET). The company’s staff memb...

Initial D The Arcade Will Start Drifting Next Spring In Japan Sega delivered more new information on  Initial D The Arcade during a livestream that aired on December 11, 2020. The development team revealed more gameplay features that the new arcade game will have. We previously learned there would be four-player races. Initial D The Arcade will feature a new Story Mode that makes the player’s avatar a new rising star in the series’ universe, with its story supervised by the original creat...