Atlus has teamed up with trendy Californian patisserie Honey & Butter for a cross-promotional to celebrate the western launch of rhythm action games Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight.Between November 24...

After an immensely successful run on PC, the virtual reality rhythm game Beat Saber is coming to PlayStation VR on November 20, 2018. Using dual swords, players slash incoming blocks that are synced to the beat of the music. It's a simple b...

If you, like me, can't wait to put on your dancing shoes and straighten the rug with the stars of Persona 3 & 5, then today might be your lucky day. The U.S. PSN store has just released demos for both Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, an...

It's hard being the drummer. Not only do you generally sit at the back of the stage, avoiding the spotlight and hidden behind a mass of metal, but you are, essentially, the key to the whole performance remaining tight. A guitarist can blow ...

Rhythm games are baked into my DNA. I get that not everyone wants to jump around on a plastic mat, bang a drum, or strum a guitar, but at some point or another, my musical background kicks in and I hit that zone -- the one where you can see...

One day, I'm gonna be shuffling off this mortal coil. When that day comes, I think all anyone is going to remember of me is a never-ending deluge of posts, spread over two years about releases, localisations, DLC and characters pertaining t...

Fancy waking yo'self up this morning with some hard skin-hammering? No, not like that, get your mind out of the gutter, I'm talking with some drum 'n' fun on Bandai Namco's famous rhythm-action series Taiko no Tatsujin.The European stores f...

XSeed Games has dropped a trailer announced a date for fun-looking rhythm-action game Gal Metal, which is coming to shred on Nintendo Switch later this month.The goofy-looking game, by new developer DMM, tells a completely twisted story of ...

Contest is life. Contest is love. Contest is metal. Win a copy of Double Kick Heroes. Every now and again a note gets slid under my office door here at Destructoid HQ (AKA my mom's basement) that has a game on it I just know you degenerates...

While virtual reality still feels gimmicky to me - perhaps as a child of the '90s who just remembers Dactyl Attack all to well - there's no denying it maintains an allure that pulls in the people, if not always the dollars. At EGX in Birmin...

As we bear down on the disco-glittered release of Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, publisher Atlus has revealed two characters coming to the rhythm-action games as pre-order bonuses.Anyone pre-ordering ei...

Even if I never end up playing the new Space Channel 5 designed solely for virtual reality, the knowledge that the rhythm series is alive and well in 2018 in any capacity warms my heart. Between this and the niche-PSP-series-turned-VR-game ...

This month sees the Japanese re-release of popular Nintendo DS title The World Ends With You on Switch. A final launch trailer has hit the airwaves to reintroduce us to the adventure' cast of hip young thangs and stylish visuals and audio.T...

Earlier this month we got the funky-fresh news that the two Persona Dancing titles, which launched in Japan earlier in 2018, would be two-stepping across the ocean for worldwide release before the year's end. A new trailer from Atlus featur...

Rhythm games have an amazing history of savagely standing up the Wii U. Last year Let's Sing 2018 released on Wii and Switch, completely skipping the Wii U, topped off with the inclusion of the song "I Hate U." Well, it's happening aga...

In the best release date switcheroo in some time, Atlus have announced that all three Persona Dancing titles, Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, and the previously released Persona 4: Dancing All Night are hea...

There's not a lot of intersection between Korean MMOs and rhythm-based music games. Despite not having much in common, Blade & Soul developer NCSoft has signed on as the publisher of Harmonix's next unannounced game. That's all we ...

[Update: Bemanistyle has confirmed that Bandai Namco currently has "no plans" to bring the physical drum sets west.] We've seen a lot of buildup toward more Taiko no Tatsujin games coming west, and now all of those leaks and trademark ...

Flyhigh Works has been making moves on the Switch this past year. They managed to get really aggressive early on, before many other publishers caught onto the fact that the Switch was going to be a big deal, and it paid off. Its main contri...

The video game industry has grown well beyond the concept of score chasing and arcade action. We live in a time where one can make a game with virtually any concept and imbue it with an emotional core. This medium is beautiful, chaotic, wil...

Bandai Namco's cool & cute rhythm action game Taiko no Tatsujin is coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan later this month. However, if a recent listing on the Australian video games classification board is to be believed, the West will als...

For generations now, the marriage of music and video games has brought us some absolute classics. Whether it's the comical hip-hop of PaRappa the Rapper, the million-dollar-making Rock Band franchise or the DLC-smothered Persona Dancing tit...

Persona-loving rhythm fans are going to have two more games to master next year. Atlus has confirmed an early 2019 release for Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight on PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in the West. Alo...

Activision has quietly announced that Guitar Hero Live's online video service, GHTV, will be shutting down on December 1, 2018. This will see the termination of any semblance of DLC the game once had (since no content packs were ever releas...

A few small, but significant, tidbits of information concerning the Persona franchise came out during Dengeki PlayStation's interview with Producer Kazuhia Wada, currently working on upcoming rhythm-action games Persona 3: Dancing Moon Nigh...