Las Vegas GameWorks complex at Town Square has closed

Arcade and amusement analyzable GameWorks announced it has closed, including its Las Vegas location.

Operators pointed to the coronavirus pandemic’s economical effects for slowed business, they said successful a Facebook station connected Friday.

“The past 20 months and counting we person seen our concern turned upside down and the continued dilatory economical betterment has near america nary prime different than to close,” the station read.

The arcade concatenation has been successful concern since July 1996, according to the post. Locally, it had a determination connected the Strip adjacent MGM until 2012. Two years later, it opened its astir caller determination astatine the Town Square buying mall, located astatine 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South, according to Review-Journal archives.

The determination successful Town Square offered 7,000 quadrate feet of arcade games, 8 bowling lanes and an eSports Arena.

GameWorks is besides closing its arcades successful oregon adjacent Seattle, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Chicago and Denver.

GameWorks was arsenic a collaboration betwixt movie studios DreamWorks and Universal Studios and Japanese video crippled institution Sega, according to a 2010 quality communicative by Reuters.

DreamWorks near the concern successful 2001 and Sega GameWorks filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy successful 2004, selling its stores to Sega Entertainment successful 2005. Sega Entertainment past unopen down and liquidated successful 2010.

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McKenna Ross is simply a corps subordinate with Report for America, a nationalist work programme that places journalists into section newsrooms. Contact her astatine mross@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mckenna_ross_ connected Twitter.