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Pinball has a visual style all of its own, a tangible reality that most interactive entertainment fails to capture. And while the past few decades have seen the release of hundreds of great-looking, great-sounding, and completely compelling games, some examples stand out in the memory of the pinball community more than others. They might not necessarily be the best games, but they are the embodiment of the pinball age at its most lucrative. Stalwarts of the genre. Masters of design. Icons. The past few decades have seen…

Atari has both announced and released the 1997 classic-ish, Balls of Steel onto Steam today. The port was handled by Big Boat Interactive. So, I have bad news. The Duke Nukem table appears to have been removed. I’ll get to that. However, in its place, there is the spin-off table (Devil’s Island) and two brand new tables based on Missile Command and Centipede. Not a bad deal. Balls of Steel was developed by Wildfire Studios (with help from Apogee/3D Realms/The Pinball Wizard) and published by GT Interactive in 1997. If we…

Pinball is a nostalgic arcade game played all over the world. But the standard design of most machines makes it difficult, if not impossible, for people with mobility issues to get in on the fun. A group of Colorado entrepreneurs wants to change that. Six friends have invented a controller that can be hooked into a pinball machine to make the game more accessible to people with disabilities, injuries or other physical challenges. Their small hexagonal-shaped device features three round buttons on one side, which a player…

San Diego Comic-Con will feature plenty of news on famous superheroes and supervillains, with the majority of that news coming via movies, video games, and of course comics. Stern Pinball is getting in on the action as well, with the company announcing a new set of Venom-themed pinball machines made in collaboration with Marvel.Players will assume the role of Venom during a game, which begins with them "bonding" with another character from the Marvel universe. The game will change depending on which…

JACKPOT! JACKPOT! JACKPOT! Loot your change drawer, Zen Studios has confirmed that Pinball FX is going to drop on Switch next week. July 6, 2023, to be precise. To be clear, this is the–I don’t know–reboot of Pinball FX. Because they got up to Pinball FX3 and then decided to start the sequence over. This is especially interesting because you can already get Pinball FX3 on Switch. Pinball FX is kind of built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 4. I’m not sure why that’s necessary, but it means that your tables don’t…

On a Tuesday night at Logan Arcade, a bar on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Ian, a 57-year-old assistant manager, looks at the Rick and Morty pinball machine. “This is a frustrating machine," he says. He steps up and takes his turn—one of a…

Fast and Furious Death Star pinball.Image: UniversalOkay, we know. That’s not actually a Death Star in the latest trailer for Fast X. It’s a bomb that sort of looks like a Death Star. But as we watched it bounce around the streets of Rome, as Vin Diesel bats it around making his car into a pinball flapper, only to have it explode as Jason Momoa basks in the fallout, we just figured there are bigger things to worry about than using an unrelated Star Wars reference.The Arcade Brings a Surprising Discovery in Exclusive Clip…

While E3 might be gaming’s version of the Super Bowl, I always have more fun exploring the Game Developers Conference. The show is the best way to understand the state of games because it gives creators and fans alike access to insightful panels and a show floor full of games to try. For press, the event is even larger. In addition to the demos at the show proper, developers tend to flood in from around the world to show their games in hotel suites around San Francisco. The entire city turns into a haven for creative…

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Image: VerticalDid you know that pinball was once illegal in New York City, after an early-1940s decision that the machines were a) too akin to gambling and b) corrupting little kids? A new film digs into that incredible period in gaming history—specifically the tail end, circa 1976, when one man began a crusade to reverse the ban.After a festival run, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game arrives in theaters and on VOD this week—exploring the true story of Roger Sharpe, who was instrumental in making pinball legal in New…