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STEP RIGHT UP!! TAP!! TAP!! UH, TAP SOME MORE. That's right: the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game is about to get a Nine Inch Nails makeover, according to a Billboard.biz report and a note from Trent Reznor on the NIN website.

Tap Tap Revenge bills itself as "a music game in the tradition of Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution that puts your rhythmic skills to the test in all-new ways," and pretty much all of those new ways involve tapping on the screen of your iPhone.

Expect to be tapping with a whole new intensity after game-makers Tapulous put the specially designed NIN version of Tap Tap Revenge for sale in the iPhone App Store later this month. The game will reportedly feature 16 tracks culled from NIN's latest, The Slip, and this past spring's massive instrumental affair, Ghosts I-IV. The bad news: no "March of the Pigs". The good news: you'll still have a functioning iPhone come November.

As for Trent and co., they begin a brief tour of South America tomorrow (recently made brief-er by some cancellations), and they'll kick off another North American jaunt chock full of opening acts worth coming early for on October 18 in Mexico City.

NIN:

10-02 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires
10-04 Santiago, Chile - Arena Santiago
10-08 Caracas, Venezuela - Poliedro de Caracas
10-18 Mexico City, Mexico - Foro Sol (Motrokr Festival)
10-19 Guadalajara, Mexico - VFG Arena (Motrokr Festival)
10-21 Monterrey, Mexico - Arena Monterrey
10-23 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
10-25 New Orleans, LA - Voodoo Music Experience
10-28 Orlando, FL - UCF Arena *
10-29 Jacksonville, FL - Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena *
10-31 Nashville, TN - Sommet Center
11-01 Greenville, SC - Bi-Lo Center *
11-03 Greensboro, ND - Greensboro Coliseum *
11-05 Charlottesville, VA - John Paul Jones Arena *
11-06 Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues *
11-08 Manchester, NH - Verizon Wireless Arena *
11-09 Worcester, MA - DCU Center #
11-11 Ottawa, Ontario - Scotiabank Place *
11-12 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre %
11-14 Hamilton, Ontario - Copps Coliseum %
11-15 Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena %
11-17 Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center %
11-18 Fort Wayne, IN - Memorial Coliseum %
11-20 Cedar Rapids, IA - US Cellular Center %
11-21 Columbia, MO - Mizzou Arena %
11-22 Tulsa, OH - Bok Center %
11-25 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center %
11-26 Council Bluffs, IA - Mid-America Center %
11-28 Rapid City, SD - Rushmore Plaza Civic Center ^
11-29 Billings, MT - Metrapark Arena ^
12-01 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Credit Union Centre ^
12-04 Kelowna, British Columbia - Prospera Place ^
12-05 Victoria, British Columbia - Save on Foods Memorial Centre ^
12-07 Portland, OR - Rose Garden Arena ^
12-08 Nampa, ID - Idaho Center ^
12-09 Missoula, MT - Adams Center ^
12-12 Sacramento, CA - Arco Arena ^
12-13 Las Vegas, NV - Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino ^

* with HEALTH
# with Deerhunter
% with Boris
^ with the Bug