While we are a IIDX site primaraly, it would be silly of us to not talk about the release of the 11th version of a Konami music game that is regrettably more well known to the average gamer than Beatmania, which ironically is branded more like the 10th version (though this time, its more for 10 years rather than 10 mixes). It is currently early in the morning in Japan as I type this, but in less than 12 hours we will be getting our first real details about the arcade version of a Revolution X that does not involve Aerosmith, Dance Dance Revolution X. With a new cabinet, new “original” features, and a annoying new announcer that we all hope they toned down, will the arcade version yet again be superior to its North American PS2 counterpart (which I jokingly call “DDR X Beta 2″)? Well of course it will.

In the IIDX crossover department, we know for sure the House Nation stuff from Empress will probably not be on there since they appeared on the recently released Furu Furu Party (which is basically the Japanese version of Hottest Party 2), and No Crime, a song hinted as being a Shanadoo song for a DDR game that ended up on FFP (the song also appeared with a different vocalist, a hidden English/Japanese vocal switch, credited to Naoki on Empress). However, Zero from Distorted (which got yet another “omg whut anime is that from” video on the PS2 version and Gold AC) is the only IIDX crossover that had been truly confirmed for X.

We’ll just have to wait and see, we will try to cover this the best we can.