2020

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To be updated.

January

January 30th: beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE LIGHTNING MODEL is released in North America exclusively through ROUND1. This marks the first commercially released version of beatmania IIDX in North America.

February 1st - 8th: The 9th KONAMI Arcade Championship for BEMANI games was held in esports GINZA studio and at JAEPO 2020. Non-BEMANI games had their final rounds scheduled for February 22nd to 24th; however, they were postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak [1].
February 25th: Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a KONAMI employee who was the inventor of the KONAMI code (up up down down left right left right B A start) used in various KONAMI (and non-KONAMI) games - including BEMANI titles - dies at 61.

March 4th: beatmania IIDX 20th Anniversary Tribute BEST is released.
March 18th:
- beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE Original Soundtrack is released.
- Coconatsu's third mini-album, ハレトキドキメランコリック, is released.
- Blanc Bunny Bandit's second album, 共鳴性白染自由主義, is released.

April 1st: due to rising fears of COVID-19 in Japan, KONAMI suspends all updates to its arcade BEMANI titles after April 1st, besides weekly rankings for beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE and pop'n music peace. The ending dates of all currently ongoing in-game events were postponed. It is currently unknown when updates will resume.