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Founded in 2000, Pinball News is the world’s premier website for news from the pinball world – First and Free! With in-depth analysis and reports on new games, reports from shows, information about new products and a comprehensive Diary of events.

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Eric Meunier - Austrian Pinball Festival 2026 - Pinball News

Eric talks about some of the creative processes which went into the creation of his Harry Potter pinball design as well as the graphic, audio and rules elements.

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Aaron Davis & Brian Madden - Austrian Pinball Festival 2026 - Pinball News

Aaron and Brian are in Austria to promote the work of the homebrew community across Europe and explain how you too can create your own custom game using the Mission Pinball Framework and FAST Pinball controllers.

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Hexa Pinball - Austrian Pinball Festival 2026 - Pinball News

Alice Lemoine from Hexa Pinball talks about the company's manufacturing processes, their playfield designs and their second release, The Three Musketeers.

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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast April 2026 recap

After all the excitement of new game launches last month, things were a little more sedate in April. So, join Jonathan and Martin as they take a gentle stroll through the events from the pinball world in the latest Pinball Industry News PINcast. It’s been thirteen years since music and sound maestro Chris Granner created an audio package for a new pinball, but now he’s back to work on Turner Pinball’s latest Yukon Yeti game alongside Adam Grubman. Although not an entirely new game, Cardona Pinball have released their 2.0 upgrade kit for the classic Fish Tales machine. Ultimate Fishing Challenge adds new rules, backbox and playfield LCD panels, new sounds, new displays and new translite art. Stern Pinball’s latest sponsorship is no joke. In fact it’s a whole weekend of them, as the company sends a team to Florida’s Key West for the Q-West2 comedy festival where they are a ‘lifestyle sponsor’. A local bar was populated with Stern’s latest games and high score tournaments held on Insider Connected along with a unique achievement badge for players. While it never made it to the Texas Pinball Festival, Hexa Pinball have been touring their new The Three Musketeers around European shows as well as in the US. Find out where you can catch it next. Jersey Jack Pinball have teamed up with the Broadway staging of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child where movie actor Tom Felton is reprising his role of Draco Malfoy. There’s a special Harry Potter game backstage for the cast to play, as Felton discovers in a new promo video. The Jersey Jack team have also been giving details of their upcoming games in a panel seminar at the Pintastic New England show. Find out what Steve Ritchie and Mark Seiden revealed. There are also details of Wonderland Amusement’s second title, a software update to their first, and your opportunity to grab a custom Monster League Hockey player jersey.

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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast March 2026 recap

March is often the time for new game announcements, and this year certainly didn't disappoint with of two new reveals, one updated classic and one upcoming reimagined game, all discussed by Jonathan and Martin in the March 2026 Pinball Industry News PINcast. Turner Pinball made a surprise reveal of their third title, Yukon Yeti, just ahead of the Texas Pinball Festival and brought two machines along for visitors to play. This follow-up by Dennis Nordman to his classic Whitewater game has striking similarities, but adds more shots, deeper rules and a novel ball climber lock mechanism. Although their machines didn't clear US customs in time to appear at the Texas show, Hexa Pinball launched their second title, The 3 Musketeers, with a reveal at an art gallery in France. Although no gameplay videos have been released yet, the game will be available to play at selected upcoming shows in the US. The newly relaunched American Pinball are hard at work producing a run of 100 re-artworked Houdini machines commemorating the 100 years since the master illusionist's death, while also developing their first in a series of Williams/Bally reimagined titles, which was announced to be Cirqus Voltaire. Find out what more they had to reveal and how the free prize draw for one of the Houdini machines ended up with two being given away. After last month launch, Stern Pinball's new Pokémon game made its way to Texas for its first show appearance in Pro and Premium forms, while the design team made a presentation about how the new title was created. While Jonathan and Martin were in Texas, they took time out to visit the factories of Barrels of Fun and Multimorphic and talk to David van Es and Gerry Stellenberg. Gerry is also the guest in the latest edition of What's Cooking? With... where he shares his favourite dish and also talks more about the pinball business and the latest developments at Multimorphic.

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Louisville Arcade Expo 2026 - Pinball News

Pinball News's M.G. Brown brings us this first look at the Louisville Arcade Expo 2026 show floor, including the pinballs, the videos, the tournament area and the whole vibe inside the Triple Crown Pavilion in Jeffersontown, KY.

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Texas Pinball Festival 2026 - Show Walkthrough - Pinball News

We're back in Frisco for the 2026 Texas Pinball Festival, held as usual at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center. We have some new machines on the show floor, with Yukon Yeti and Pokémon making their first show appearance, while the new American Pinball has a new product to show too. Plus all the usual great TPF attractions. Catch them all in our show walkthrough,

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Dragons - Texas Pinball Festival 2026

The Jui Long Lion/Dragon Dance Troupe performing at the Texas Pinball Festival 2026

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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast February 2026 recap

There might only have been 28 days in February, but those four weeks were packed full of exciting news from the pinball world, as you can discover by joining Jonathan from Pinball Magazine and Martin from Pinball News with the latest edition of their Pinball Industry News PINcast. After weeks of delays, Stern Pinball got to launch their new Pokémon game. Based on the hugely popular global franchise spanning console games, mobile games, comics, movies, animated TV series, trading cards and much more, this latest Stern ‘cornerstone’ game comes in the familiar three models but includes many unusual features in the artwork, on the playfield and in the software. Meanwhile, there were big changes over at Dutch Pinball Exclusive (DPX) as co-founder of the brand and owner of the game designs, Melvin Brouwer-Williams, splits with manufacturing partner Dutch Pinball. The remaining Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland games will still be built, but Alice will be the one-and-only DPX title, while there are further delays announced for the game’s topper. It wasn’t long before Melvin was back in the spotlight when he was introduced as the new Creative Director at American Pinball, responsible for the development of the rebooted company’s upcoming titles. To find out much more about the split with Dutch Pinball and his new role at American Pinball, Martin talked with Melvin to get the inside details of what really happened, the big plans for the new American Pinball, and to also find out what this means for the Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland and Cuphead games. Over in Italy, the head of Pedretti Gaming gives an interview to a local news site where he talks about the collaboration with Pinball Brothers, where their co-produced games end up, and how they need to transition to appeal to the next generation of players.

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Stern Pinball - Pokémon Pinball Media Day - Pinball News

Game designers Jack Danger and George Gomez introduce Stern Pinball's new Pokémon game, while software lead Tanio Klyce talks about the games rules and objectives in this presentation at the Media...

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