2018

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2018

To be updated.

February

• February 10th: The 7th KONAMI Arcade Championship and 天下一音ゲ祭 全国一斉認定大会 2017 are held at JAEPO 2018.
• February 11th: After months of rumors, KONAMI officially announces the endings of REFLEC BEAT and MÚSECA via BEMANI Pia, a 20th anniversary BEMANI book sold at JAEPO 2018.
• February 12th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS is released to Korean arcades.
• February 14th:
  • jubeat clan ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
  • GITADORA Tri-Boost Original Soundtrack Volume.03 released.
  • GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE Original Soundtrack released.

March

• March 7th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
• March 23rd: DANCERUSH STARDOM was released to Japanese arcades.

May

• May 9th: 日向美ビタースイーツ♪ BEST, a 2-CD best hits collection of various HinaBitter♪ songs, was released.

June

• June 26th: Offline kits for MÚSECA 1+1/2 were released, as well as conversion kits to change MÚSECA to Bishi Bashi CHANNEL (ビシバシCHANNEL) are available from this date as well.

July

• July 24th, 2018: SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN gets heavily censored in the South Korean version of the game. Due to interference from South Korea's video games board, Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC), all songs added after November 16th, 2017 were temporarily removed from the game (except for BLASTER GATE charts for older songs).
  • Song updates were paused as well until August 23rd, 2018, when all missing songs were restored. However, the censorship of the jackets remained.
    • On August 2nd, 2018, a similar censorship happened with DanceDanceRevolution A, with EXTRA SAVIOR song ALGORITHM temporarily absent from the Korean release of the game.
    • The BEMANI SUMMER GREETINGS event, which started on August 10th, cannot be accessed in the Korean versions of GITADORA Matixx and pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢, unfortunately suggesting the censorship issues with GRAC have not yet been fully resolved.
• July 31st:
  • eAMUSEMENT support for MÚSECA 1+1/2 ended, marking the end of the series.
  • Patent no. 2922509, which mainly covered elements of the original beatmania series such as keysounded notes and vertical note scrolling, reaches the end of its term.

September

• September 5th: jubeat festo was released to Japanese arcades.
• September 12th:
  • GITADORA EXCHAIN will be released to Japanese arcades.
  • ひなビタ♪ライブSSP～待っててね東京さんっ！～ will be released.

October

• October 10th: pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition will be released.

November

• November 7th: EDP presents ここなつワンマンライブ2018 ミライコウシン will be released.

Upcoming date

• beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage will be released to arcades.

• ノスタルジア Op.2 will be released to arcades.

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