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Lips offers undead karaoke kissing to your own songs
Microsoft just announced the 40 songs that will ship with Microsoft Singstar, a.k.a. Lips. You can read the list here, but assuming Lips works as advertised, it's almost irrelevant. One of the game's features is support for your own "non-DRM" songs, which would give Lips an even bigger song list than Rock Band.
Based on the screenshot above, the karaoke game seems to be about singing zombies. It will ship next month with two wireless mics that also include motion sensors. "Play up your gestures to add to your score," the press release reads. Which raises the question, what's the difference between playing up gestures and spazzing out? The press release also detailed a multiplayer party mode called "Kiss":
Kiss is the epitome of singing and flirting your way to a sweet reward, where duos who hit the notes and gestures together meet in the middle to share a kiss. Are you a match?Umm, awkward.
By Pogue Mahone at 11:53 AM ON 10/23/08
Well then, they just have to include that song that Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy sing during 'A Mighty Wind'. Nothing else makes sense. Except maybe Louis Armstrong's A Kiss to Build a Dream On.
By wrshamilton at 12:16 PM ON 10/23/08
That's the video for "Young Folks." It would be pretty neat if they had the videos for their songlist, and would make it a little less irrelevant.
By obonicus at 12:37 PM ON 10/23/08
Your own songs won't have lyrics, though, though it will strip out the lyrics track from your songs, or try to anyway.
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