News for your Naomi and Atomiswave cabinets, the Extreme Hunting 2 - Tournament Edition kit is available now for ordering from your Sega distributor. This hunting game offers you the opprtunity to hunt down deers, black bears, elks, mooses, wolves and even bisons. According to your performance, you'll unlock other game modes like hunting bats, squirrels, prairie dogs, gooses or bass fishing and target shooting. To succeed, you have access to several wepons including the rifle, the shotgun and bow & arrow, three extra weapons will be available as you progress. Multiplayer isn't forgotten since you can confront your mate in head-to-head matches or even try a 4 players tournament on the same machine (in this case each player plays alternatively). This game was released in the United States in june 2006 where it meets a wide success. Notice there exists an online tournament system based on the "ALL.Net" (Amusement Linkage Live Network) platform but for now, no one knows if this service will see the light of day in Europe. The full kit includes an Atomiswave motherboard, the game cartridge and 2 shotguns (with their controller PCB and necessary cables). These guns are 70 cm long and feature 2 small speakers mounted inside them reproducing gunshots sound.

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It's a pleasure for us to invite you on friday 03rd of november to a Sega Rally 2 tournament. This event will take place at Jeux Americains lunapark currently located on the Liège funfair, Parc d'Avroy (near the Liège-Guillemins station). People that will take part to the tournament could win one of these prizes : 1 Dirt bike, 1 DVD/DivX player, 1 DVD movie (to choose). You can already subscribe by sending an e-mail within your complete name, nickname, and e-mail address to tournament@arcadebelgium.be or at the lunapark Jeux Americains. Subscription fee are 5 €. We hope to see many of you and wish you in advance a great tournament!

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After OutRun2 and OutRun2 SP, a new version of Sega famous race game is coming soon! This time, improvements come from appearance and immersion: indeed, each player will take place in a different Ferrari carossery (F-50, Dino 246 GTS, ...) moving during the race, and will enjoy a 62" DLP 16/9 screen. That's not all, a camera will be placed on every car and will display the driver's head on a screen located on top of the cabinet... But the most surprising is the all new cooperative mode: there will be 2 wheels by car! This promises great team races. This new edition runs on Lindbergh and no more on Chihiro. Let's recall that the kit transforming an OutRun2 twin to OutRun2 SP is in promotion (a chance if you don't own one yet), don't hesitate to contact your Sega retailer for more informations and don't forger that the Triforce: Virtua Striker 4 Ver. 2006 kit is on sales.

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Preview trade show is the place to discover next year's games. This time, we're promised to see a richer show than usual, with more exhibitors, more stands, more games, and so more business opportunities. Preview 2007 will take place at London West Novotel on wednesday 11th and thursday 12th october 2006. You can already register for an invitation to this unavoidable event. Amongst exhibitors are Namco and Sega who'll present their latest products. Rumors are talking about Soul Calibur III for the first one and Virtua Fighter 5 and After Burner Climax for the second... Wait & see!

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Namusco's open days report is online in the articles section. Don't miss this opportunity to drop an eye on this open window on the latest tendancies. All games evoked in this report will be reviewed very soon. Meanwhile, don't hesitate to come talk about the news in our forum, you'll find latest arcade titles' screenshots and flyers there

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Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection kit is out in Europe! This new version of Namco's famous fighting game brings four new characters (including Lili, a young singer living in Monaco and Dragunov, a russian soldier). It also features 4 new stages (for a new total of 35!), reworked scenaries, new costumes and new blows. Here's a good way to successfully recycle cabinets still hosting less popular games.

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Belgian distributor Namusco will soon welcome all professionals for its annual open days. Those will take place on thursday 16th and friday 17th of february in their buildings in Brussels. The newest video games, pinballs, juke-boxes and other coin-operated machines will be showcased. It will be the occasion to discover them for those who couldn't go to London. But it will also and especially be the opportuneness to spot the future hits of year 2006 in a felted and cordial atmosphere.

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From 24th to 26th of january, the ATEI, the biggest european amusement show, was held as each year at Earls Court. It was the opportunity for us to travel to London in order to make you discover the latest products in arcade games and coin-ops in general. You'll find our picture report in the articles section.

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Here's a game that will please rookie hunters, Namco will distribute the Big Buck Hunter Pro hunting game in Europe. The game will be showcased on their booth at the ATEI. Developed by Play Mechanix, this new version offers for the first time in the series the ability to compete with another human hunter thanks to the 2 guns featured on the cabinet. You'll can track over 30 different animals such as deers, elks, antelopes and mooses in 25 different places accross North America. The cabinet made by Raw Thrills features a high definition flat screen. With its awesome graphics, Big Buck Hunter Pro should become the new benchmark for hunting games. Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills aren't unknown to each other since their respective bosses both worked for Midway. Click here to see the game's cabinet.

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We wish all our visitors a good and happy new year! If 2005 brought us some very good games such as OutRun2 SP, Tekken 5 or The Fast and the Furious, 2006 promises to be a great vintage featuring eagerly awaited titles like Mario Kart Arcade GP, The House of the Dead 4, Virtua Tennis 3, Time Crisis 4 and After Burner Climax. This year will also be synonymous of technological evolution with the arrival of the first 16/9 high resolution digital projector screen featured cabinets. But these good news don't hide the fact that the arcade business isn't healthy outside Japan. Paradoxically, more and more people are playing video games. Among these games, arcade games are by far the most fun ones. For example, no console game gives you the same pleasure as a 4 players OutRun2 SP race with your friends! So if you don't want to lose the opportunity to live these great moments, support the cause! Go out and play!!! We especially want to thank all the location list contributors. The 2005 contest's winners are Macklane (1st with 53pt), MadDoctor (2nd with 39pt) and t3k1lla (3rd with 23pt). Their prizes will be revealed in the forthcoming days. The counter is reset and from now on, new contributions will count for the 2006 contest. There will be some surprises in 2006 so stay tuned!

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