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What news it brings?

New modes:

Brain Shower:

There are three different modes in this one.
Calculation - where the player is forced to do simple math operations and input the result via the dance platform.
Observation and Memory- you will be shown a certain pattern and you have to input it. In one of those modes it won’t be just arrow patterns but also whatever icons/symbols andamiro came up with (angels, devils, dogs, other weird characters or animals etc)

New Tunes

Yahpp - Blaze Emotion
-Big Bang - La La La
-Eun Ji Won - Adios
-45rpm - Softly
-S.E.S - I Am Your Girl
-DJ Missill - Forward
-Sam-I-Am - Uprock
-Gyfted - Crazy
-Big Metra - Panuelito Rojo
-Nina Pilots - Digan Lo Que Digan
-Wang Lee Hom - Change Myself
-Steve Yoo - Breakin’ Love
-Banya Production - People Didn’t Know
-Banya Production - DJ Otada
-Banya Production - K.O.A ~Alice in Wonderworld~
-Banya Production - Toccata

KONAMI released Rock Revolution for Nintendo DS. It reminds me of beat’n'groovy… why is everything so pro-western? It does not look good.

Three days have passed since the test location of Jubeat started in Tenpin Bowl located in Acton, UK.
One credit costs 2 pounds and that gives you two songs to play.
The machine has 20 songs on it.
e-Amuse is off.

I think that (e-amuse off) might be one of big disadvantages of the game. Because jubeat seemed to be quite targeted at online play and internet ranking. If we get this game in Europe without e-Amuse it won’t be as motivating as it could have been with e-Amuse.

The American game similar to Pop’n Music is now available for download for those who own Xbox360. You can buy the game for 800 points (worth about 10USD) or you can just download the demo which contains three playable songs and see how the game look likes.

KONAMI announced that they will release 17th Pop’n Music in February 2009. The game’s full title is Pop’n Music 17: The Movie. The main color of this theme is light purple.

We don’t know much yet except that the game will be aimed for both beginning players (Enjoy mode) and expert players. KONAMI also announced that they will be organizing e-amusement events regularly and that new licensed and original music will be in the game.

Not so long time ago AM started putting hints on piugame.com for a new pump game. The steps so far are:

Step 1: Stomach Muscle
Step 2: Desert
Step 3: 3
Step 4: NX Absolute

So for the time being we know that the new game will be named NX Absolute, we have seen some screens and intro movie (check piugame.com).

7 Studios is developing a new DJ simulation game similar to original Beatmania and they want to be the first to achieve this. (as you know Activision plans to release DJ Hero next year).

The game should be named Scratch: The Ultimate DJ and is planned for release in spring for PS3 and Xbox360 consoles.

The controller for the game consists of a turntable designed by Numark and five keys.

source: joystiq.com

DJ Hero game was in development for the last two years. DJ Hero was registered early this year and it seems that we will finally find out what the game is about. The game is planned for summer 2009.

DJ Hero is a dj simulation game. Thus it is played with a new controller. The controller consists of turntable and 3 buttons. On the board you can also find cross fader and sound effects dial for changing the sounds. On the screen we will be able to see the flowing notes. The combination of confirming notes are holding a button and scratching at the same time, holding just the button or just scratching.

BTW Guitar Hero controllers will be compatible with this game. Fret buttons = sampling buttons, pick = turntable, whammy bar = the sound effect changing thingies.

Activision also registered Dance Hero. I though that this is a joke at first but it unfortunately is not.

Finally the long awaited DJ Troopers CS is announced. The game will be released on 18th December 2008.

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Hardkore of the North