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D1 Grand Prix Drifts Into Stores (D1 Grand Prix)

Aug 8, 2006

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.

D1 Grand Prix announced (D1 Grand Prix)

Jun 7, 2006

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 ...

Crack the Da Vinci Code trailer (The Da Vinci Code)

May 24, 2006

• 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 ...

New Da Vinci Code screens spread the mystery (The Da Vinci Code)

Apr 20, 2006

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 ...

Da Vinci Code cracked (The Da Vinci Code)

Mar 7, 2006

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 ...

Subway Restaurants Will Have Kids Dancing At Their Tables With DanceDanceRevolution Premiums (Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition)

Jan 6, 2009

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."

Dance Dance Revolution celebrates 10th birthday (Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition)

Nov 24, 2008

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.

Study Says Video Games Can Give a Workout (Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition)

Feb 7, 2008

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.

Dance Dance Revolution Disney Channel Edition released for PS2 (Dance Dance Revolution: Disney Channel Edition)

Jan 9, 2008

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.

Subway Restaurants Will Have Kids Dancing At Their Tables With DanceDanceRevolution Premiums (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2)

Jan 6, 2009

Dance Dance Revolution celebrates 10th birthday (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2)

Nov 24, 2008

Study Says Video Games Can Give a Workout (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2)

Feb 7, 2008

Introducing The MTV Rhythm Game Track Finder (Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2)

Jan 9, 2008

In 2008, the team at MTV Games are proud to present to you the MTV Rhythm Game Track Finder, your beacon in the confusing swirl of rhythm games.

The regularly updated database will allow you to search any artist and any song to find out which rhythm games it is in and to compare song lists for any major music-based video game.

The database currently indexes song lists for more than two dozen rhythm games, including a range of SingStars, Guitar Heroes, Dance Dance Revolutions, Rock Band, and lesser-known favorites such as FreQuency, Elite Beat Agents and the Donkey Konga series.

Subway Restaurants Will Have Kids Dancing At Their Tables With DanceDanceRevolution Premiums (Dance Dance Revolution X)

Jan 6, 2009

Dance Dance Revolution celebrates 10th birthday (Dance Dance Revolution X)

Nov 24, 2008

Three new DDRs announced for 10th anniversary (Dance Dance Revolution X)

May 15, 2008

Konami's massively long press conference was filled with brand-new announcements, with Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and Rock Revolution taking center stage. We even caught a glimpse of Pyramid Head in Silent Hill: Homecoming. But for all the music game junkies who desperately need a new set of 120BPM songs to dance to, there were three glistening new editions of DDR set up for the fall.

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Dance Factory in motion (Dance Factory)

Jun 29, 2006

Publisher Codemasters has officially started up the publicity machine for Dance Factory - its do-it-yourself answer to the classic stomping-on-arrows-in-time-to-music game Dance Dance Revolution. The first output is a new website and trailer, the latter of which you can watch by clicking the Movies tab above. Dance Factory is unique in that it's built around a long-overdue feature: by reading the beats in music CDs, it enables players to create custom levels using their own music collection. ...

Dance Factory (Dance Factory)

Feb 15, 2006

Another year, another dance mat title? Not quite. When Codemasters' Dance Factory makes its moves on the arrows in April, it's bringing a setlist limited only by the size of your music collection. Like PlayStation oldie oddity Vib Ribbon, it can build routines from any music CDs you feed it. At last, the chance to do a relaxing shuffle to your favourite ambient album, or at the other extreme, shorten your lifespan to the rhythm of a death metal drummer. If you already have a four-directional ...

Two new Manas: Dawn and Heroes (Dawn of Mana)

Mar 26, 2007

Final Fantasy this, Dragon Quest that. What of Squaresoft's forgotten role-playing son? Well, here's some great news for fans of the Mana series: 2007 will see the release of not one, but two games in the beloved franchise, giving imports one less reason to gloat. After all, the Mana series remains the third most popular reason suburban white kids learn the Japanese language, right behind diplomacy and Sailor Moon fetishes. Dawn of Mana marks the first time the series will appear on a home ...

Square-Enix unveils line-up for Tokyo Game Show (Dawn of Mana)

Sep 4, 2006

Square-Enix has confirmed that a video of highly anticipated PlayStation 3 title Final Fantasy XIII will be shown at the Tokyo Game Show later this month.
Speaking to Eurogamer, a spokesperson said it was highly likely that the video will contain previously unseen footage, as will a trailer for FFXIII Versus.

PS2 title Dawn of Mana will be playable at the event, alongside Project Sylpheed for Xbox 360, FFIII for DS and FFXI for the PS2 and 360. Other games on show will include Chocobo Magic Picture Book and Dragon Quest Monsters Joker, both for the DS.