The JAEPO show will close its doors at the end of the public day following the day dedicated to professionals. Despite the significant decline in visitors (less than half than last year) maybe due to the extreme weather conditions currently affecting Japan, many new games have been presented... Sega had already announced flagship titles before the show such as Border Break Scrambled Ver.4.0, Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-, Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity, Koihime † Enbu, Shining Force Cross Exlesia version B but surprised everybody with the announcement of the BLADE ARCUS from Shining fighting game featuring characters from the Shining RPG series and Wonderland Wars, a multiplayer strategy action game played with a pen. maimai GreeN Plus, an update to maimai GreeN was also announced. Besides arcade games, Sega also introduced a lot of medals game including Star Horse 3 Season III - Chase the Wind and The World of Three Kingdoms. Games for children were also on display: Anpanman Popcorn 3, Hero Bank Arcade,... Namco has also drawn the big guns with Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Maxi Boost, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5, Super Alpine Racer and Deadstorm Pirates Special Edition. The big news, however, was the surprising shooter/dance game Sailor Zombie ~AKB48 Arcade Edition~ in which the player fights AKB48 members turned into zombies. On Taito's booth, you could try the latest versions of BlazBlue Chronophantasma and Ultra Street Fighter IV with new characters in both cases. Developers of Yatagarasu - Attack on Cataclysm came to present their game and a video of Skullgirls for NESiCAxLive was unveiled. Groove Coaster was also playable at the show and Taito released an amazing trailer for a future zombie game on NESiCAxLive: Project Z. Finally, Konami was not left aside with many new products announced: Silent Scope Bone Eater, an unexpected sequel to their famous sniper game, jubeat saucer fulfill (an udpate to jubeat saucer), pop'n music rapisutoria, Steel Chronicle Victroopers ver3.0, Steel Chronicle Ganesh which is played in a dome and BeatStream, the new BEMANI rhythm game using a touchscreen. Konami also presented several kids games: Dragon Collection, Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle, Ultimate Striker,...

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The 17th edition of the Paris Manga show will be held at Paris expo Porte de Versailles this weekend. This show has become a must for fans of Japanese culture over the years but it has diversified its offer with science fiction content. This year, from 9:30 to 19:00 on both days, many activities will be organized. The entry is 11€ for one day and 20€ for two days. Two stages will host various activities such as karaoke, quiz, concerts, conferences, fashion shows, cosplay,... The "sci-fi actors" stage will allow fans to get autographs and participate in photo shoots with many actors from movies and series: David Prowse (Star Wars), Mark Addy (Game of Thrones), Christopher Judge (Stargate SG-1), Colin Baker (Doctor Who)... As guests, we will find among others: Toshio Maeda, Matsubara Hidenori, Jupiter, Samantha Bailly, Sabine Rich,... And on video games side, there will be Namco Bandai Games, Epitanime, Kayane's stand (with tournaments and animations), Nintendo League, DDR Belgium (with 3 DanceDanceRevolution cabinets) and the booth of La Tête Dans Les Nuages with the following arcade games: Winter X Games SnoCross, 2 GRID, Pump It Up NX, Panic Museum, House of the Dead, Guitar Hero Arcade, Blazing Angel, 3 Astro City, 1 Vewlix with Street Fighter and Pump It Up Fiesta on which competitions will be organized. Conventional activities such as Nin-Jutsu, Go and Mahjong will be of course also present.

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An exhibition on the history of video games opens at Evere town hall (near Brussels) today. There, visitors will discover the evolution of video games from Pong to Super Smash Bros. Titled Game Over, the exhibition is also fun and interactive because several arcade machines will be available for you to play. You have until Friday March 14 to visit this exhibition. It's located in the Brel hall on the second floor of the Evere town hall (at n°10 on Square Hoedemaekerssquare). The event is organized in partnership with the Retroludix association. Enjoy, it's free!

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The new Konami's QMA is available today. Two new characters have been added: they are fairies; the girl is called Celeste and the boy Tiar. Their role is to support the player in his studies. As in the previous episode, the player can still choose from 21 characters. A new cooperation system has been implemented: players can now help each other and win Rewards Platinum Medals and magical stones. A new SSS rank is added to the examinations. Online tournament mode is of course still available. Quiz Magic Academy School of Heaven opening with characters presentation is available here.

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EAG International 2014 opens its doors at ExCeL London tomorrow. No operator can afford to miss the European amusement trade show of the year! Sega will showcase Transformers Human Alliance and Plants vs. Zombies - The Last Stand as well as Wahlap's racing games Storm Racer G and Storm Rider and the latest ICE redemptions. You will also discover the latest Sega Prize Europe soft toys: Sonic The Hedgehog, Doodle Jump and Plants vs. Zombies. Bandai Namco Games will strike hard with the first European appearance of Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, Mach Storm and Super Alpine Racer. They will also have the latest Raw Thrills games on display: Batman and Aliens Armageddon. Of course, this is only a small sample of the proposed offer, there will also be cranes, pinball machines, simulators, kiddie rides, spare parts, etc... Not to mention the various free seminars held during the show. If this is not done yet, register for a badge and download the smartphone app. EAG International 2014 will start on Tuesday at 10:00 and will close on Thursday at 16:00. Like every year, we will offer you a full report with pictures of the show.

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Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold v1.02 is available today. Every character is improved and some bugs are fixed. New features to the training mode are also added: partner configuration and a new function to decrease CPU HP and speed.

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The new Pix'n Love is available! This 24th volume includes a 16-page tribute to Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's former president who died in September. On arcade's side, Pix'n Love allows its readers to discover the genesis of Killer Instinct with Chris Tilston, gameplay programmer and lead designer at Rare and Robin Beanland, main musical composer of the game. Characters origin is explained as well as some gameplay design choices. Also featured is an interview with Frank Ballouz who was sales manager for Atari (1975 to 1983) before moving to Nintendo, Namco, Capcom and Global VR. It is thanks to him that arcade versions of NES games were released (the Vs. and PlayChoice-10 series). Reviewed games are Data East's Night Slashers and Konami's Pooyan. Part of the book is devoted to Crouching Dragon Hidden Pony, a new Neo Geo (AES and MVS) game by French studio "Le Cortex". A special edition of the book with a gold cover and two metal bookmarks has been sent to subscribers. The others can ordered it on Amazon.fr. Please note that this mook is available in French language only.

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Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity will be on location on the weekend of January 18-19, 2014 at several Japanese game centers. During the location test, players will get free stickers. The Initial D license used at the location test (300 yens) can't be used in the final version of the game. Some new features in Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity have already been unveiled on the game website. The "Legend of the Streets" story mode is renewed with special challenges taken from famous scenes of the manga such as "avoid spilling the cup of water" or "cause Iketani to faint". When the player finishes all stage with the higher rank, he will unlock an hidden stage. He can now choose what is displayed on screen: earned titles, tachometer type and even use the "cup of water". "D coins", an in-game currency is used for special tuning of the cars. A new special rank is also added. Initial D Arcade Stage 7 AA X card data can be transfered to Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity (not in the location test version).

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Konami releases Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2014 today. This 2014 edition of the famous football game features a new game engine which allows more realistic collisions between players, finer body movements and ball touch. It also improves the graphics. The ball control has also been improved thanks to the new concept of center of gravity which allows separate control of the ball and the player's center of gravity. A new "trade transfer" mode between teams is added to the traditional "transfers negotiation" way of transfer. The game now gets the Champions League license that features more than 250 teams. Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2012 data can be transferred via e-AMUSEMENT PASS.

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A nice Christmas gift from Koei Tecmo: Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate Arcade is available in Japanese arcades today. This is the arcade adaptation of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate released last year on consoles. There hasn't been any arcade version of a Dead or Alive game since Dead or Alive 2 Millennium in 2000! A new character is added to the arcade version: Marie-Rose. A 18 year old servant using the "Systema" fighting style of the Russian army taking advantage of her small size. A new stage is also available: Lorelei castle. A tutorial explaining new gameplay features is available here. Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Arcade is distributed via the ALL.Net P-ras MULTI (RingEdge2) from Sega. Koei Tecmo does not exclude the possibility of an international release...

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