The countdown is on and the biggest dance game tournament in the rocky mountain region is coming this October to Mr. Bigg's Family Fun Center. Expect tournaments for DanceDanceRevolution, Pump It Up, Beatmania, and more!Click for details!
According to Bemanistyle.com, Konami has developed a new design for the pads on the U.S. X series dedicated cabinets, greatly awknowledging the input from the community from the disater of DDR X. The only disadvantage is that there is no conversion kits for anything older than DDR X (sad panda face). At this time there is no open beta tests or a release date for the new version but we will keep you up to date as we receive information.
Finally we have reached the number of entries required to our special unlock condition and the final song for Season 5 is here! Out of Control by Darude. This artist's songs was featured in official DanceDanceRevolution North American home versions like Sandstorm (DDRMAX PS2), however this is one of his lesser known songs from the same album as that of Sandstorm. The stepcharts live to the name of the song for having a ever changing pattern as you play it out.
This means we now have a total of 150 unique simfiles (not including [SPECIAL] or [ANOTHER] sims). Thanks to all of our supporting Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers, our players at DDR Friday, as well our general fanbase across the internet. As you can also have seen we are not just about making simfiles for Stepmania any more. DDREncore.com is slowly becoming an up to date collection of information reguarding all official DanceDanceRevolution, In The Groove, and Pump It Up games, along with all other dance games as well and our community section is starting to produce fun videos and photos from local dance game events. So please keep our site bookmarked for the best possible information about dance gaming in general!
We now have mass downloads for Seasons 1 through 5 available to download. This is a perfect opportunity to get caught up quickly on past seasons before moving on with our newest simfiles!
In June, not a whole lot of things went on except for this little thing called E3. DDR fans were left shocked and confused, after seeing no sign of the PS3/XBox360 versions of DanceDanceRevolution originally announced at last year's E3. With only a Wii version coming in the near future and a brand new dance game called DanceMasters on the horizon, players are skeptical about the future of DDR in North America.
Not much went on with the team too much this month since many are taking advantage of the summertime with needed rest and recreation. Not to mention the final song for Season 5 required unlocking through the completion of a challenge set by the team.
Found in general arcade gaming news, it seems that BANDAI NAMCO games has filed several patients for both Stereoscopic and Motion Sensing gameplay. One of the patients suggest the possible development of a new motion sensing dance game for arcades. For the full article click here.
It is official, DanceDanceRevolution X2 Arcade is released in Japanese arcades today. Since it's original announcement in November, players worldwide have been on the edge of their seat for the newest edition in the BEMANI series of DDR games. Here on DDREncore we have updated in our database what details we now have on the game since its release and will continue to update as more information becomes available.