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The latest Pinball Industry News PINcast<\/em> packs in a lot of exciting news from the past month, as Jonathan from Pinball Magazine and Martin from Pinball News return to bring you multiple new game launches and interviews, including an exclusive Harry Potter<\/em> chat with Jack Guarnieri.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Multimorphic were first to announce as they revealed Portal<\/em>, based on the popular video game series, as their latest title for the P3<\/sup>.\u00a0 Their most packed playfield yet contains so much hardware it even comes in a specially extended version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellow Texans, Turner Pinball, brought their newly-announced second title, Merlin\u2019s Arcade<\/em>, to the Texas Pinball Festival where Jonathan and Martin got to spend some pre-show time exploring it, both above and below the playfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After previewing it for months, Chicago Gaming finally announced their re-run of Medieval Madness Remake<\/em> games.\u00a0 But these Merlin Edition models offer far more than earlier Remakes<\/em>.\u00a0 Find out what you get and what it costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jersey Jack Pinball\u2019s seminar at the Texas Pinball Festival was supposed to be all about the making of Avatar<\/em>.\u00a0 But then Jack Guarnieri confirmed Harry Potter<\/em> as the company\u2019s next title and the internet went crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That confirmation raises many more questions, so Jonathan and Martin are joined by Jersey Jack himself, Jack Guarnieri, to talk about that announcement and give many more details on this most hotly-anticipated new game which everyone said could never be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also the latest edition of \u201cWhat\u2019s Cooking With\u2026\u201d as Jack gives us his favourite pasta dish recipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s lots more industry news too, with Stern Pinball appointing a new VP of Marketing, Chicago Gaming finally releasing the new code and hardware add-on kit for their Cactus Canyon Remake<\/em> games, new accessories for Venom<\/em>, a new loyalty scheme from Barrels of Fun which gives one lucky Labyrinth<\/em> owner a brand new copy of their next game, a final Wizard mode for ABBA<\/em>, a full sell-out of Spooky\u2019s Evil Dead<\/em>, and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, finally, the interview eighteen months in the making.\u00a0 Steve Ritchie and Bill Grupp sit down to talk about the making of their Elton John<\/em> game, the culture at Jersey Jack Pinball, what they\u2019re working on next, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click below to play this month’s PINcast<\/em>, or visit the PINcast<\/em> library<\/a> for this and all the previous editions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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