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These Are Lips’ Number One Hits
9:20AM Michael McWhertor | Microsoft has confirmed the final lineup for Lips: Number One Hits, the sequel to the Inis-developed karaoke game that hit the Xbox 360 last year. You’ll be able to tap into your inner Lady Gaga and MC Hammer this October. More »
Rumours
Already, Another Lips On The Way
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | It’s barely been six months since the release of Lips, Microsoft’s shameless swipe at SingStar’s karaoke crown. And now, with E3 just around the corner, it seems it’s already time for another Lips game. More »
Pucker Up For Some Lips Downloadable Content
10:00PM Luke Plunkett | Lips is getting its DLC act together, with Microsoft today announcing a raft of new tracks to be made available over the next few weeks. Most suck. But not all. There’s still Bobby Brown. More »
Lips Review: Kinda Puckered Up
4:00AM Luke Plunkett | Let’s get this out of the way now. Yes, Lips is a shameless rip-off of Sony’s massively-successful SingStar franchise. From intent to mechanics, the mission brief for the iNiS team was never “make an original, inspiring music title for the Xbox 360″. It was “do SingStar, but on the Xbox 360″. And that’s exactly how we’re going to assess the game. More »
Keiichi Yano on Lips, Innovation, and Drunken Karaoke
4:30AM Maggie Greene | There’s a really fun interview up at Gamasutra with Keiichi Yano, chief creative officer of iNiS (the Ouendan series and Elite Beat Agents). The subject is ostensibly Lips, the recently released 360 karaoke title, but a lot of ground is covered in terms of game design and future potential. My favourite part of the discussion is when Yano gets into the decision not to include a fail condition, and instead allow (possibly drunk) warblers to mangle music to their hearts’ content: More »
New Songs Hit For Lips Today
12:00AM Brian Crecente | Over the next two weeks motion-friendly Xbox 360 karaoke game Lips will be getting seven new songs to add to its 40 title repertoire. The first batch lands today, the second next week. More »
Media
Tsk, And The Lips Trailers Were Going So Well…
11:00PM Luke Plunkett | And Microsoft USA were doing such a bang-up job of promoting Lips! Creepy robot heads, chirpy, disembodied lips…great stuff. A real step forward. Really knocking down the barriers preventing men from playing what’s viewed as a girly genre. But these British ads? Two steps back. More »
Europe’s TENTH Xbox 360 Bundle (This Time With Lips)
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | I picture Microsoft Europe not as a bunch of men in suits, but as a single man up on stage at a karaoke night. Dressed in his best Freddie Mercury white lycra and shelltops, belting out “DONT STOP ME NOW”. Because, believe it or not, this is the TENTH Xbox 360 bundle Europe will be seeing this holiday season. Tenth. This one’s aimed squarely at the casual user/lapsed Sony fanboy, as it offers an Arcade 360, a copy of Lips and your only chance of ever seeing the iNiS logo on the front of a console. More »
