Some quirk of fate led us to the In The Groove homepage, where Roxor Games' distinctly DDR-'inspired' rhythm game for arcade and consoles lives, and there are a bunch of potentially intriguing things there - not least an image from the Play Meter arcade trade magazine which reveals that In The Gro(o)ve 2 was the highest rated 'Video Kit' (upgrade!) in June 2006 by the surveyed arcade operators.

From this, we can guess that the Konami lawsuit against Roxor filed last year (the upgrade kits are often going into DDR machines!) must either be settled or stalled. It's also neat to see the entire Play Meter arcade charts to see what smaller U.S. arcade operators actually care about nowadays - looks like The Fast And The Furious by Eugene Jarvis' Raw Thrills is way up there, alongside fun stuff like House Of The Dead 4 and Initial D Ver. 3 from Sega.

[Oh, and in case you missed the 'classic' In The Groove April Fool from this year, as we did - it's EverGroove - "a unique game combining the best elements from the In The Groove dance games plus the addictive features of massively multiplayer online RPGs (MMORPGs)", which "adds a new SUPER MASTER difficulty with up to 50 steps per second". Well, the first bit isn't actually too crazy an idea, heh.]