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English English Revolution

Posted by Peter Smith on 06-04-20

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I’ve actually been playing a lot of Dance Dance Revolution lately, and for those of you who know me that is probably pretty funny. On top of that I’m really bad at it. Luckily for me Konami is coming out with a new game for me to be bad at where I don’t have to make sure my blinds are closed to play. Konami is planning a game in conjunction with Japan’s biggest English School, Nova, to create a game for teaching English. It will be called Study Abroad By Gaming, and will have players solving English questions by what appears to be hitting words with a hammer. Amazingly Kotaku reports that this game will not be the next DS Brain Game style master piece (or nongame depending on what side of the fence you are on). It will be an arcade smash hit. Even more interestingly Konami is also planning to follow up with Kanji and Mathematics based games. Now I just need to figure out what to do with my dance pad.