"I was talking to Ryan (an employee that works at Brunswick Zone), and he said that beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD IS COMING OUT. But not until around November or December."

XBL Radio is reporting a rumor that Konami has three DDR games and a Karaoke Revolution game to show off at E3:

-DDR SuperNOVA 2 for Playstation 2
-DDR Universe 2 for Xbox 360
-DDR Disney Challenge for Playstation 2
-Karaoke Revolution: American Idol 2 for Playstation 2

SuperNOVA 2 is the sequel to last year's SuperNOVA game and the sixth DDR game for the PS2.

Universe 2 is the sequel to the 360's first DDR game. It will bring back a mode from a previous Xbox (non-360) Ultramix g...

"The fate of IIDX in America right now is grim, chances are it will never happen. There is really only one hope, and that is hustling arcades over the next few weeks. lets just say Betson is NOWHERE near their quota of ordered machines, and if they don't hit that, this isn't coming out. So here is my advice:

If your arcade owner already said they were going to get it or they already talked to Betson, this is NOT good enough. Trust me, I've seen the order list, your arcade isn't on it yet. M..."

beatmania IIDX is one of Konami's flagship music-rhythm games over in Japan and it went through a trial run last year with the first-ever American PlayStation 2 release. Although its performance is not totally clear, it appears that Konami is willing to bring the game over with a true-to-the-series release with the games fourteenth arcade iteration of the game, beatmania IIDX GOLD.

beatmania IIDX has always been an import game since the game's inception 8 years ago. Recently, Konami held...