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KONAMI Italy has published the cover for the game today, this is not an April Fool's joke:

Released in Europe today. View song list. ヨーロッパで本日発売！楽曲リスト。

Song list updated.

Louis-CONCENT III unlocked today.

Stated for June 2009 release on the Italian KONAMI website.

Site updated. MUSIC LIST, EVENT and SPECIAL sections updated. RANKING COURSE 1 and RANKING COURSE 2 unlocked today.

Song list updated and more characters added.

From continuous monitoring of 2ch and various Japanese sites, Monday's update has unlocked all the X-Specials that were evidenced in the master song list that was embedded in the DanceDanceRevolution X (PS2) (Japan) game. The full list of X-Specials are as follows:

DDR 1stMIX
[ EXTRA ] PARANOiA (X-Special) / 180
[ ENCORE ] TRIP MACHINE (X-Special) / DE-SIRE

DDR 2ndMIX
[ EXTRA ] SP-TRIP MACHINE(JUNGLE MIX) (X-Special) / DE-SIRE
[ ENCORE ] PARANOiA MAX~DIRTY MIX~ (X-Special) / 190
[ ENCORE using RANDOM ] PARANOiA MAX~DIRTY MIX~in roulette (X-Special) / 190

DDR 3rdMIX
[ EXTRA ] PARANOiA Rebirth (X-Special) / 190'
[ ENCORE ] AFRONOVA (X-Special) / RE-VENGE

DDR 4thMIX
[ EXTRA ] TRIP MACHINE CLIMAX (X-Special) / DE-SIRE
[ ENCORE ] PARANOIA EVOLUTION (X-Special) / 200

DDR 5thMIX
[ EXTRA ] PARANOiA ETERNAL (X-Special) / STM 200
[ ENCORE ] Healing Vision (X-Special) / DE-SIRE

DDRMAX
[ EXTRA ] MAX 300 (X-Special) / Ω
[ ENCORE ] CANDY★ (X-Special) / Luv UNLIMITED

DDRMAX2
[ EXTRA ] MAXX UNLIMITED (X-Special) / Z
[ ENCORE ] 革命 (X-Special) / dj TAKA with NAOKI

DDR EXTREME
[ EXTRA ] The legend of MAX (X-Special) / ZZ
[ ENCORE ] Dance Dance Revolution (X-Special) / DDR ALL STARS

Site updated. MUSIC LIST and SECRET sections updated. Order game only or the bundle.

Following on from yesterday, MAXX UNLIMITED (X-Special) can be unlocked as EXTRA STAGE now, the follow-up ENCORE EXTRA STAGE is currently unknown.

An online update has been applied today. It has applied the following features and fixes:

・When the machine cannot store any more EDIT DATA in the machine, new EDIT DATA will now replace the old EDIT DATA properly.
・More timing data fixes.
・Transmission of EDIT DATA over e-AMUSEMENT will be activated.
・Additional RIVAL features will be activated.
・When beginning a song, all types high scores will now be displayed. (i.e. machine/global)

SP-TRIP MACHINE (X-Special) and PARANOiA MAX (DIRTY MIX) (X-Special) are now available for EXTRA STAGE and ENCORE EXTRA STAGE as of today.

An online update has been scheduled on March 16th. It will do the following:

・When the machine cannot store any more EDIT DATA in the machine, new EDIT DATA will now replace the old EDIT DATA properly.
・More timing data fixes.
・Transmission of EDIT DATA over e-AMUSEMENT will be activated.
・Additional RIVAL features will be activated.
・When beginning a song, all types high scores will now be displayed. (i.e. machine/global)

As bacon has posted on bemanistyle.com, notable points include:

1. DanceDanceRevolution X dedicated cabinets, due May, will have e-AMUSEMENT readers.
2. e-AMUSEMENT will be available as soon as the DanceDanceRevolution X launch at $50 per month.
3. Instead of USB, SD cards will be used for EDIT DATA despite the majority vote on a poll at ddronlinecommunity.com in favour of USB due to "security risks" yet they're not concerned about it in Asia/Japan which calls into the question why a poll was even published. A PC utility will be distributed for DDR players to produce EDIT DATA in this case.
4. The DanceDanceRevolution X showcased at ASI 2009 was very similar to a final Japanese software except the software is in English.
5. KONAMI is producing the cabinets with Betson distributing them only.

Song list updated and more characters added.

Site updated. MUSIC LIST and EVENT sections updated. Beautiful Inside (Cube::Hard Mix) and Chance and Dice unlocked today.

On the KONAMI France website, their current March poll includes the question "Which game are you looking forward the most in 2009?" and includes DDR HOTTEST PARTY 2 Wii as one of the choices. This could be our confirmation that the game is finally coming out to the European region, six months after the North American release. Let's hope they give us exclusive content this time round to compensate for the delay eh?

Song list updated and more characters added.

Released today in North America!

Site updated. CHARACTER and SPECIAL sections updated. Dream Machine unlocked today.

Asked KONAMI about lack of news of DanceDanceRevolution Winx Club for the UK. Response: It's not coming out in the UK, and will only be released in other European regions despite having a news article and press release about it back in August 2008.