Groove Coaster 3 Link Fever is already the 4th version of Taito's musical game. The first Groove Coaster was released 3 years ago. This time the cabinet and the interface become red coloured. 29 new songs are already available for the game release, they are divided in different categories: Pop, Anime, Game, Vocaloid, Variety and Original. Players can now exchange messages and information about the songs via the online service. They can also register their friends to have access to their rankings and results. A collaboration with the Smartphone version starts for the launch of the arcade version.

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Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Maxi Boost ON is at last available in Japan. It's the first title in the Extreme VS. series that features a national online play mode! There are already 160 mechas available including some from recent Gundam anime series: the YG-111 Gundam G-Self piloted by Bellri Zenam and the CAMS-05 Mack Knife piloted by Mask (Gundam Reconguista in G), the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos piloted by Mikazuki Augus (Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS). Other Gundams will be regurarly added. Conquest mode have been renewed: a new course, a new stage: the capital Territory of Gundam Reconguista in G, new BGM and a new final boss. The EX Burst system has been revised with the addition of 3 functions for new strategies: Fighting burst (increases melee attack), Extend burst (avoids critical situations) and Shooting burst (cancels ranged attacks). A national competition is launched: "VS. Conquest pre-season". Players win contribution points if they win a battle. According to their contribution points and their ranking, they can get a premium G ticket to exchange against the season reward: an emblem icon and special gauge design. As usual in the Extreme VS. series, the opening movie song is composed by a famous band. This time it's NO FUTURE (Prototype ver.) by SiM, a Japanese alternative metal band from the Kanagawa Prefecture formed in 2004.

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Attention! The new meeting point of Liège players will open this Friday, March 4th! It's the Player e-Sport bar! This e-sports bar offers several networked PCs, game consoles and of course arcade machines including a DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX! This may quickly become the gathering place for the BEMANI community! The setting is beautiful thanks to the wonderul works of airbrush artist ECTO! Of course, versus fighting is not forgotten with the attendance of Kayane, Luffy, Alioune and Asenka on the opening day! Hearthstone player Tic-Tac will also be present. Friday evening will be hot with Street Fighter V, League of Legends and Hearthstone tournaments with cash prizes to boot. There will also be an exhibition match of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive opposing team LouvardGame to a public team. Visitors will have the chance to test Overwatch thanks to AFB Multi-Gaming. The crazyness will continue the next day with a Kayane Session where there will be many prizes to win! The Player e-Sport bar is located in the premises of the former Meltdown bar (50 Leopold Street), 500m from the Liège-Palais train station. See you there this Friday at 19:00 for a crazy gaming night!

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If there are musical themes remaining anchored in the brains of players of the '90s, Streets of Rage II music tracks are part of them! Yuzo Koshiro's masterpieces composed in 1992 rhythmed the endless beating of punks that composes this beat'em all sporting a dark urban atmosphere. Originally released on Mega Drive, Streets of Rage 2 (Bare Knuckle II in Japan) has been released in arcades later. The arcade version was released in Europe only as a Mega Play cartridge, it is identical to the US version of the game; display has a 60Hz refresh rate, Blaze panties is not visible during his flying kicks and Mr. X has lost his cigar. The music was composed on NEC PC-88 and the original computer files are among the sources used to remaster the soundtrack. This vinyl should have been released in January, but the quality of the test pressing was deemed insufficient so Data Discs decided to rework the sound quality to achieve optimal results. The soundtrack of Streets of Rage II is offered as a double vinyl package and is available in 3 different editions: a standard edition with black vinyl for £22.99 (€29.16), a color edition with translucent vinyl featuring a black smoke effect and a limited edition with a black smoke effect and spots of blood at £24.99 (€31.70). The second vinyl includes alternative versions of musical themes, prototypes and unused pieces. All editions contain 2 lithographic prints. Pre-orders opens today at 13:00 CET for European subscribers to the Data Disc newsletter, at 17:00 CET for US subscribers and at 20:00 CET for the rest of the world. Delivery is scheduled for early April. Today, Yuzo Koshiro continues to compose music for video games, his latest creations appearing in the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5DX racing game released two months ago. Hopefully the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune music will receive a vinyl release in the future... In the meantime, visit the Data Discs website to order the Streets of Rage II O.S.T.!

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The latest version of Konami's popular online arcade mahjong game is available in Japan since yesterday. It is name Mahjong Fight Club ZERO. A new "Mahjong Planet" mode is added for the inexperienced players, they explore various planets and learn the rules and subtilities of the mahjong game. There is also a collaboration with the magazine Kindai Mahjong: players can play against Shigeru Akagi, the main character of the manga Akagi: Akagi: Yami ni Oritatta Tensai (written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto) published in Kindai Mahjong since 1992.

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Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition starts operation in Japan today and will also be available in a few days all over the world. This title is developed by Sega in collaboration with Nintendo. This is the fifth game in the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series and the first to be released in arcades. The game consists of 9 events: 100m, 100m hurdles, long jump, trampoline, 100m freestyle, hammer throw, javelin throw, archery and rhythmic gymnastics. There are 20 characters and each has its specificity (power, speed and technique). The cabinet features a pad with sensors and two large joysticks with a button on each. Depending of the discipline, the player must therefore really run, jump at the right time or rotate the joysticks as quickly as possible. Up to 4 cabinets of Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition can be linked for multiplayer. You can see a video of the gameplay shot at EAG International 2016 here.

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The JAEPO show ended yesterday after two intense days of game announces and presentations. Despite an attendance down from last year: 17053 entries on both days (professionals, visitors and press included) against 20604 entries in 2015, the JAEPO is still a hit. The predominance of musical games that appeared a few years ago is confirmed, almost all publishers prensented at least one new musical game: Cytus Ω and crossbeats REV.SUNRISE for Capcom, DanceDanceRevolution A, OTOIROHA (which uses a sliding controller), Nostalgia (equipped with a piano keyboard) for Konami, Groove Coaster 3 Link Fever for Taito and, finally, the new Theatrhythm Final Fantasy All-Star Carnival for Square Enix. In addition to the new music games, there were a lot of new titles announced: a new Sangokushi Taisen from Sega that will use cards printed on both sides. Capcom returns with Shingeki no Kyojin Team Battle which uses a three-dimensional mobility device controller. Konami introduces the arcade version of the smartphone game Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu BALL ☆ SPARK and the new Mahjong Fight Club ZERO. Finally, Byking announced the launch of a new arcade platform: the BNAS (provisional name) for "Byking Network Arcade System" that will work the same way as Taito's NESYS. The first game will be Magicians DEAD, an action game using a non-contact Kinect-like motion sensor. Previously announced games were also present at the show such as Tekken 7 Fated Retribution, Mobile Suit Gundam UC Card Builder and Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. Maxi Boost ON on Bandai Namco stand and Kancolle Arcade on Sega stand. The JAEPO 2017 will be held at Makuhari Messe on February 11 and 12.

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Dengeki Bunko FIGHTING CLIMAX IGNITION Ver.2.20 is out today! This update adds characters that were already available in the PlayStation version. Shirai Kuroko from Toaru Majutsu no Index and Yuuki Konno from Sword Art Online are the new playable characters. There are also new support characters: Uiharu Kazari from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Asama Satoshi from Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere, Kana Iriya from Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu, Zero from Magic Book to Start from Zero and LLENN from Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online I Squad Jam. Four new stages are added: Wonderland Wars stage, Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls stage, World End Eclipse stage and Training Stage.

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February 2016 has begun and it's time for the new 1cc Shirts T-shirt. This month's theme is Tatsujin. This vertical shoot'em up was developed by Toaplan and released by Taito in October 1988. Tatsujin is the original Japanese title, the Truxton name has been used for the European and American releases. Under orders from Dogurava, the Gidans launch the invasion of planet Bogoro from five giant asteroids. A surviving pilot attempts to destroy them all. The game has 5 long levels that repeat indefinitely while becoming increasingly difficult. Tatsujin was long considered the hardest shooter ever made. This sand coloured T-shirt is the first 1cc to use Direct-To-Garment printing (as opposed to the transfer technique previously used). The featured logo comes from the cover of the Mega Drive port of the game, this version of the logo was famously improved when compared to the first version seen on the arcade flyer. As usual, the only way of purchase is pre-order and the T-shirt will never be reissued. You have until Sunday, February 21st to order your T-shirt.

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CHUNITHM PLUS starts running today. This new version of Sega's game introduces new songs and a new degree of difficulty: WORLD'S END for experimented players seeking a new challenge. The new licensed songs are: Elemental Creation (dj TAKA meets DJ YOSHITAKA), Sugar song and bitter step (UNISON SQUARE GARDEN), Xanadu as fashion (Kanae Shinjo - Suzuko Mimori), oath sign (LiSA), Paradise Wings (Maon Kurosaki), Kaire! Setsugetsuka (Setsugekka - Hitomi Harada / Hearth - Ai Kayano / Small Purple - Yui Ogura), Peerless Stargate (Aoi Shota), XL TECHNO (PACA PACA PASSION). There are also 3 new original songs: SNIPE WHOLE (Masayoshi Minoshima feat.Mei Ayakura), MUSIC PЯAYER (A-One) and Cyberozar (Delete). You can watch a video of a player playing in WORLD'S END difficulty here.

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