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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.

I had the chance to personally try out PIU ProX multiplayer system at LIW 08.
The pads are about 10kg each, made of metal and the “sensors” (more likely the the two metal plates) are sealed off which could make this platforms work for a long time. The panels are from different kind of metal than the cover (which is slippery, the panels are not hopefully). The center panel is too big, otherwise the pad would have the real measurements (or could be considered a PIU pad).

The software is mostly PIU Pro with new features. You can select 3 difficulties at once or 1 difficulty. If you select 3 different difficulties and you select easy difficulty it will show easy + the other two that follow (thus normal and hard). Selecting any other higher difficulty will show normal, hard and crazy at once.

The player can choose on what difficulty to play. The computer will recognize what difficulty the player is playing on and will keep counting score for that song. A player can choose in mid-play to switch difficulties. It takes some time for the computer to register the change but it does it. (what the score does is another matter though).

Modifier menu is available.

you can check my PIU ProX video on my youtube account =>
LIADZ2

Go check the Hardkore of the North video on my youtube channel =>
Hardkore of the North

Today is the official day of the Dance Dance Revolution CS USA release. The game will hit the shelves of your local game scores tomorrow so get ready and go get your copy!