Yuke's Company of America, and an official sponsor of the D1 Professional Drift Grand Prix Series, today announced D1 Grand Prix, their professional drift racing simulation for the PlayStation 2, is now shipping to stores nationwide.
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Yuke's Company of America - the US branch of the Japanese developer behind the wrestling series WWE SmackDown! and Rumble Roses - today announced its first game, D1 Grand Prix. Due out in July, D1 will focus on the high-speed world of professional drift racing, a bold departure for a company usually associated with sweaty men and hot chicks tossing each other around a ring. When it hits, D1 will star 39 different American and Japanese race drivers, as well as more than 40 licensed cars from ...
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• The Da Vinci Code (WMV, 16.3MB) - right-click to download Friday 12 May 2006 2K Games has released a trailer of the Da Vinci Code, the game based on the film that's based on the Dan Brown book about Jesus and stuff. The trailer highlights the fact that while the game will obviously follow the plot of the book/film, there are far more puzzles and secrets to unravel than will be cracked by Tom Hanks in the film or Robert Langdon in the book. It also demonstrates the type of detective ...
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Thursday 20 April 2006 Having given little indication of its gameplay up to this point, forthcoming PS2, Xbox and PC game The Da Vinci Code is now slightly less mysterious thanks to a fresh batch of screenshots. The screens show some impressively dark and moody settings - we especially like the look of the mansion's exterior. There's also a rather grisly picture of a corpse, complete with scrawled pentangle and felt-tip pen. Chilling ...
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We've got the first glimpse of The Da Vinci Code game, which is based on the upcoming film adaptation of the multi-million selling Dan Brown book. Published by 2K Games and developed by The Collective (Marc Ecko's Getting Up), the game is described as "action orientated suspense." Expect a strong puzzle element as well, as the plot of The Da Vinci Code concerns solving the mystery behind a murder in the Louvre museum in Paris. The murdered body of an elderly curator is discovered with the only ...
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IGN writes: "Kids can dance into the New Year at SUBWAY restaurants with the all-new DanceDanceRevolution promotion. Konami and SUBWAY restaurants today announced a partnership that will help promote a healthy lifestyle for children by delivering the fun and excitement of Konami's best-selling get-up-and-move video game to children everywhere. From December 29, 2008 thru March 29, 2009, participating SUBWAY restaurants will offer one of six exclusive, high quality DanceDanceRevolution branded premium toy accessories along with a $10 coupon good on any of the newest DanceDanceRevolution games with each purchase of a SUBWAY FRESH FIT FOR KIDS meal."
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One of the most important titles in the history of casual gaming can stand up proud this week, with Konami's Dance Dance Revolution dance mat series reaching the ripe old age of ten.

Known as Dancing Stage in Europe, the series first arrived in Japanese arcades on November 21st 1998 and quickly went on to become a gaming sensation. Konami ditched the traditional joypad or joystick and introduced a pressure-sensitive dance mat that registers when a player's foot hits each of the four directional pads.

It didn't take long for the arcade craze to make the move to consoles, and the series arrived on Sony's pioneering PlayStation in Japan early in 1999, bringing with it the first iteration of the console dance mat.
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The American Council on Exercise (ACE) put the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) to the test and fond that the game can be a very good workout for children. ACE commissioned the study out of the University of Wisconsin to look at the caloric expenditure of players during the game.

The study used male and female subjects from 12 to 25 years old and half the volunteers were under 18. The study showed that players had a marked increase in exercise intensity as they participated.

Adults burned more calories and on average teens burned 5.9 kcal/min on light, 6.7 kcal/min on standard and 8.1 kcal/min on difficult mode. Test participants used DDR Extreme 2 for the PS2 and a dance pad.

The full report of the study in PDF format is available for download via 14U.
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Do you have children between the ages of 8 and 13? If you said yes then your house has likely been bombarded with music from the Disney Channel on a regular basis. Now Konami brings the music of High School Musical, Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, That's So Raven, Cheetah Girls, Kim Possible to DDR with Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition.

Forget Rock Band and Guitar Hero III, this is the must own music game on the PS2.
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IGN writes: "Kids can dance into the New Year at SUBWAY restaurants with the all-new DanceDanceRevolution promotion. Konami and SUBWAY restaurants today announced a partnership that will help promote a healthy lifestyle for children by delivering the fun and excitement of Konami's best-selling get-up-and-move video game to children everywhere. From December 29, 2008 thru March 29, 2009, participating SUBWAY restaurants will offer one of six exclusive, high quality DanceDanceRevolution branded premium toy accessories along with a $10 coupon good on any of the newest DanceDanceRevolution games with each purchase of a SUBWAY FRESH FIT FOR KIDS meal."
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