Archive for the 'DDR News and Stuff' Category



As you may have noticed, I haven’t been playing DDR quite as often as before. This is mostly because of school starting, and my membership in the University marching band. We practice for 2 hours on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so I get a pretty good workout during that time. I might try to play [...]

So yep, I finally got the Cobalt Flux Pad that I won on Ebay a week or so ago. The reason I went with Ebay is because Cobalt Flux is generally known for the sturdiness of their pads, and I wasn’t really worried about getting a dud. The actual pad and the cords came seperately. [...]

I read about an interesting PS2 game in this month’s issue of Gameinformer. It’s called “Dance Factory,” and it’s basically like DDR/In the Groove, but it has an extra cool feature. If you insert a music cd, it’ll automatically create a dance track for it! Early reviews (at least the one in the magazine that [...]

According to this press release, CBS plans to debut a Saturday Morning show for kids based on DDR: In “Dance Revolution”, ‘tweens’ and teens bring their freshest moves to this sensational new dance competition where teams of dancers display their innovative routines. Hosted by the charismatic “Dance Revolution” house band, kid-friendly judges determine the winners [...]

According to Joystiq, Konami is holding an event to pitch DDR’s health benefits to PE teachers. I dunno if DDR is necessarily good for school PE, but I guess as they get kids to move around, I’m all for it. The press release says: Konami will be educating our nation’s physical education teachers on DDR [...]