All that trademark digging wasn’t a wasted effort. Konami is developing Rock Revolution and its hard not to compare it against Rock Band despite Konami’s history with Bemani. In Rock Revolution players get to bang on drums and strum plastic guitars,…

Guitar Hero and Rock Band are cash cows. Meanwhile Konami’s series of Bemani instrument games are nearly unrecognizable for the mainstream market Guitar Hero captured. Unfortunately for Konami they may have missed the boat, but that doesn’t mean they are…

Glittering Beatmania IIDX 14: Gold is scheduled for a console release on May 29. Besides the release date there isn’t much to report, but how many more Beatmania games can Konami squeak out on the PlayStation 2. Will we see…

While we’re on the subject of Bemani, Konami has a decent solution for importers to play Pop’n Music at home without having to search for the official controller. The Pop'n Music Be-Mouse acts as a fully functional optical mouse and underneath…

Exciting news popped up at Bemanistyle over the holiday weekend about a brand new Bemani game, Jubeat. Unlike Guitar Freaks and Beatmania, Jubeat does not mimic an instrument. Instead players listen to audio cues and hit square shaped buttons when they…

Last week we dug up old Konami trademarks for Drum Revolution and Guitar Revolution, which I presumed were related to DrumMania and Guitar Freaks respectively. After seeing our article, Luke recalled he inquired about this months ago and sent us…

Konami missed the boat with Guitar Freaks and Drummania. However, one year after Guitar Hero debuted, the thought may have crossed Konami’s mind. They registered trademarks for Drum Revolution and Guitar Revolution, which sound like the US names for Drummania…

It’s been three quarters of a year since we heard anything about the Karaoke Revolution series so we’re overdue for an update. Poking around Gamefly’s list it looks like Karaoke Revolution is going to hit the new wave of consoles……

I mentioned that Konami was working on a home version of BeatmaniaIIDX 13 Distorted months ago. If you were one of the people patiently waiting for it you can pick it up on August 30. The song list is up too…

Before I stepped on the Wii DDR mat to try out Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party, I spoke to Jason Enos from Konami. You may not recognize his name, but he’s behind many of the Bemani titles that came out…

Poor Konami they were sitting on a major hit and they never gave it much attention. Guitar Freaks V3 & DrumMania V3 has elements of the hotly anticipated Harmonix game, Rock Band. It even comes out around the same time and…

Later this week Konami is going to release Pop ‘n Music 14: Fever on the Playstation 2 and one of the highlights in the arcade version was it included a medley of themes from Super Mario Brothers. Somehow I don’t…