Taiko no Tatsujin Plus - Popular Song Pack 19 and New Year's Holiday Campaign Part 2!

As if today's freshly-released DLC pack for the latest Taiko 3DS videogame isn't enough, the Apple-friendly Taiko app receives today a new songpack, together with the winter holdays campaign's continuation! The 19th Popular Song pack comes in with Winter-packed licensed songs, such as:

• Let It Go ～Ari no Mama De～
• Do You Want to Build a Snowman
• By My Side
• Atarimae Taisou
• Kimagure Romantic

On top of this pack's release, Part 2 of the latest campaign is live! From today until January 15th, 2015, each song pack purchase is being awarded with one of the previously-released limited Namco Original tracks, with the addition of a couple more: Growing Up and Sweet Lay! Make sure your app is updated to the latest version in order to claim your free songs.

Namco Taiko Blog (25 December 2014) - Old Year's Last Stream and New Year's Donchare Goods

First of all, merry Christmas! Etou has found this festive day appropriate for 2014's last blog entry, packing it with tons of both old and new updates on Taiko games whereabouts, in order to get geared towards the new year.

Making Rain! Collaboration with New Japan Pro Wrestling

The last time Pro Wrestling had something to do with Taiko no Tatsujin was a free-play exhibition cabinet at a Taiwan match. This time collaborative efforts hits closer to home, bigger and badder.

Wrestler Kazuchika Okada's signature entrance theme RAIN MAKER will be included in the arcade song list some time in the future.

In addition, Okada and co. will hold a press conference in regard of the collaboration on January 3, 2015, as part of the Great Pro Wrestling Festival (大プロレス祭り2015) event programme. The inclusion will be shown first-hand then, and Okada will also take on wrestler Gedo in Taiko. Free-play cabinets will once again be available for fans to try out (organized by tickets distributed on the day).

NJPW Press Release

Taiko no Tatsujin Tokumori! Downloadable Content

A Year's End Stream (12/12/14)

Just in time for Christmas, here's our usual, image-based recap of the previous livestream, both with pictures from the Taiko Team's twitter page and directly snapped by us. Let's begin!

Taiko no Tatsujin Kimidori sequel announced

Doesn't feel like too long since Kimidori came out, didn't it? Well it's going to be replaced again pretty soon; making for the second time Taiko arcade hardware has gone through a very short 7-month cycle.

This replacement to Kimidori is slated for March 2015 as shown on the website for arcade cabinet distribution in Japan, although there's no name for it yet.

International players, don't fret; the upgrade kit contains the firmware and the cardboard decorations for the new version, but if this is anything like Kimidori, the update can be distributed over-the-air (OTA) without your operator having to order anything!

Thanks to crystal for the heads-up!

We Missed Stuff - World Hobby Fair '15 Tourney and Taiko Plus's End-Year Campaign!

It's not the first time that this happens here, but we forgot again to cover two Taiko-related news that have been advertised on the Donder page's News section. As we apologize for this mistake from our part, let's have a brief look at what we have missed.