A major expansion sees a Chicago barcade build a new pinball arcade filled with the latest games with support from Stern Pinball.

Our roving reporter John has been busy writing reports of his travels to Japan and Hong Kong visiting numerous pinball locations. Find out how popular the game can be in the Far East.

A familiar face to Pinball News readers joins Jersey Jack Pinball's team as they reveal the layout for part of The Hobbit's playfield.

A renowned designer with more than 30 years' experience creating innovate games,
John Trudeau joins Stern Pinball.

The first production games have been manufactured, tested and boxed.
Today the first of them leave the factory on the way to their new homes.

We travel to Berlin to see Full Throttle's first public showing and bring you a video of the gameplay, along with details of two new members of the Heighway Pinball team and news of their new factory.

Want to protect your game's playfield and give it a clearcoat-like shine without all the trouble?
We review the Playfield Protectors which cover the whole surface in just a couple of hours.
Plus, one lucky reader will win one for free.

In a first for the company, Stern Pinball release a second Premium model, continuing the 'beatnik' style of artwork seen on the Pro and LE models.

We're in Berlin for the German Pinball Open, held in a giant electrical distribution plant.
We've got the action from the first day including the first public showing of Heighway Pinball's Full Throttle game.

We've got the details and pictures of the three Metallica models, plus a look at the differences between them and close up pictures of the games key features.

Tanio Klyce, famed on the West Coast for his software development on the original Metallica pinball as well as work on other pinball projects joins Stern as a Senior Software Engineer.

Stern Pinball release a promotional video for their next game; Metallica. We've got the video, and take it apart to find out more about the game's features, toys and artwork.

We've also been working hard to bring you lots more reports from sites around the world where you can play pinball, including a raft of new articles from Tokyo, London, Chicago, and Seattle.

It's a crazily busy show schedule as we visit the Texas Pinball Festival, Amusement Expo and the Midwest Gaming Classic. Meanwhile the London Pinball Championship and the Enada Spring show in Italy were both taking place, and we have reports from all of them.

We bring you the very latest news from the Multimorphic team, as Dennis Nordman and Gerry Stellenberg reveal the first two game titles, we introduce two new team members and reveal new features added to the pinball platform.

The launch of Disney's new gaming platform also reveals their interest in pinball. Łukasz Dziatkiewicz was at the launch, questions one of their heads about it, and wonders why there aren't more Disney-themed games.

It's back! The exclusive Pinball News In-Depth Review returns and we dive deep into Stern's The Avengers game, showing you everything, inside and out, then explain the rules and give our opinion and rating.

We review the LED Backbox Lightning Kit with an exclusive hands-on test to see if it can give us animated backbox lighting and kill off Stern's single fluorescent tube once and for all.