Southern Hills Golfland is Gone
tuesday, march 11, 2003
Many of you Capcom/SNK fans may remember the resting ground to many Street Fighter and fighting game fans called Southern Hills Golfland. The NEOGEO mailing list reported today that this Golfland has been leveled and seemingly shutdown. Many Street Fighter tournaments and SNK tournaments were held at this establishment and SNK used this location as their primary arcade test location during the '90's. Konami recently held a DDR tournament here only a few years ago. Only Pacman's arcade in Pasadena has held as much tradition as this golfland. This golfland was also featured in the movie about Street Fighters called bang the machine. With the demise of the coin-operated games in the US, their didn't seem much doubt that we'd lose a few of the most legendary arcades in America.

Mike Riccio and Jim Buck Back And Better

friday, februaray 28, 2003
Once responsible for the programming needs of some of the Twisted Metal games for Sony, these two engineers are back with Red Zone and back with Sony. Jim Buck, pictured on the left, is a force to be reckoned with. Mike Riccio, on the right, is not to be confused with the Mike Riccio of EA. Redzone just recently lossed Chris Waley and other founders of Red Zone. More news as we receive it. Sony could not have found better programmers with the re-acquistion of Jim Buck and Mike Riccio.

Sega Merges with Sammy Corp.
friday, february 14, 2003
Japan's Sega Corp 7964.T , suffering after sports video games flopped in the U.S., said on Thursday it would merge with 'pachinko' game machine maker Sammy Corp 6426.T and cut its 2002/03 profit forecast by 90 percent.The merger, scheduled for October, means that Sega, Japan's largest game arcade operator and creator of videogame character Sonic the Hedgehog, has abandoned plans to restructure on its own and has turned for help to financially sound Sammy, Japan's largest maker of pachinko pinball-style machines.The deal will create a firm with a combined market value of $2.4 billion, with Sega accounting for around 54 percent.

Comdex is Gone
monday, february 10, 2003
The technology trade show company Key3Media Group, crippled by the plunge of technology industries and cutbacks in corporate travel, is planning to file for bankruptcy protection today, the company said yesterday. Attendance at the Comdex show in Las Vegas, once one of the biggest trade shows in the world with more than 200,000 visitors and some 2,000 exhibitors, has dropped by nearly half. Profitability has also plunged. For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2002, the company lost $299.6 million on revenue of $111.6 million before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization.

Midway West is Gone
friday, february 7, 2003
According to computer and videogames, Midway West has shutdown. Midway bought out Atari games and took over there office in Sunnyvale, which was renamed ot Midway West. This is the same Atari Games from way back in the beginning of videogames. Atari Games is not to be confused with Atari Corp which is now owned by infogrames and had it's own fame with the legendary 64-bit Jaguar - do the math. Atari Games was well known for the orignal Tetris on the Nintendo 8-bit and many other Atari Arcade game translations including Rolling Thunder. It's a sad day in VideoGames and Gamelord.org will fly their flags at half-mast.

NEC is back!
thursday, february 6, 2003
NEC is back in the VideoGame fray as a a third-party publisher for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance handheld systems, and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Headed by former senior vice-president of Capcom Entertainment, Inc., Clint Kurahashi, NEC Interchannel expects to release its first product in February 2003, a futuristic racing title for the Nintendo GameCube entitled Tube Slider. NEC is well known for their Turbo Graphx 16 and add-ons.

Where's Steve Rish?
tuesday, february 4, 2003
Anyone who's wondering where Steve Rish went after he left EA last year will be happy to know that he's backpacking through New Zealand right now and will be heading to Australia very soon. He's alone on this trek and welcomes all to join him. First, Steve Rish goes around the world, then Amol Kabe joins a start-up. Click here to see Steve Rish's great pictures.