High School Musical: a great idea with one fatal flaw
Filed under: News We love the basic idea behind High School Musical. We think a karaoke game would be a big hit with the "expanded audience" out there in the "blue ocean." If we were the type to...
View ArticleGet your Boogie on, save it for posterity
Filed under: Video Boogie just looks like good, clean dancin' fun and we're really excited about giving it a try, particularly after seeing this new video of ... well, video! Specifically, the...
View ArticleThe Sims + YouTube = The Sims On Stage
Filed under: Culture, Mac, PCAs if there wasn't enough worthless gibberish on the internet already, EA has seen fit to stick the gobbledygook speaking Sims down one of the internet's most popular...
View ArticleWii Warm Up: Mii Audition
Filed under: Wii Warm UpNot long ago, we posted about Nintendo's newest trademarks (in Japan), and today, we'd like to focus on one: Mii Audition. What could it be? We have a few (off-the-wall) ideas,...
View ArticleSlew of new titles announced for Wii Ware
Filed under: News, Screens, Channels, WiiWare Though its potential can't be denied, Nintendo's Wii Ware channel, an upcoming download service for new Wii games, didn't impress us much with the...
View ArticleNega-review: Rock Band
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm "If you're looking for another game to whittle away the hours perfecting guitar parts by yourself, Rock Band likely won't...
View ArticleHigh School Musical: Save Twenty Bucks On It!
Filed under: News, SalesNot being familiar with the High School Musical movies, characters, or songs, we aren't sure if High School Musical: Sing It! has the wide appeal required to be a good party...
View ArticleSingStar '90s makes us feel old
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, RhythmAs if VH1's I Love the '90s and The Simpsons' recent '90s-stalgia episode weren't bad enough, Sony is helping us feel incredibly old with the...
View ArticleOverheard@GDC: Karaoke-palooza
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Rhythm Unidentified man posing just after singing the second verse of Divinyls' "I touch myself" on Singstar the Sony press lounge. He was the first of many to...
View ArticleKaraoke Joysound Wii: thousands of downloadable songs
Filed under: Imports, WiiWare During Hudson's WiiWare event, the company also revealed new details about Karaoke JoySound Wii, which is actually a hybrid WiiWare/retail release. The singing game,...
View ArticleBand Brothers DX: Now with 100+ downloadable jams
Filed under: NewsAfter Daigasso! Band Brothers' release in Japan over three years ago and its subsequent expansion pack, it's time that Nintendo of America follow through with its Jam With the Band...
View ArticleBoogie sequel confirmed?
Filed under: Rumors EB Games' site has a rather interesting listing up. It's for Boogie Superstar, which we can only assume is a sequel for EA's Boogie game (you think, Wii Fanboy?). Uh, did Boogie do...
View ArticleSurvey: 'Lips' is Xbox 360 karaoke with wireless mics, store, DIY tracks
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360Sounds like rumors pointing to the Microsoft's leaked "Lips" project were only half-right: according to the very same survey that gave us such hits as Microsoft's Xbox...
View ArticleRumor: Elite Beat-dev iNiS developing Xbox 360's 'Lips' karaoke game
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 While the thread on this rumor is pretty thin, we wanted to share it with you anyways, being clear about its origins. After yesterday's rumor-splosion gave us some more...
View ArticleRumor: First pics of "Lips"
Filed under: Rumors They've become so common with Microsoft that pre-E3 rumors and leaks are often thought to be absolute fact. While most of the other rumors about Lips had some sort of thread tying...
View ArticleVariety: Microsoft to show 'singing game' at E3 (read: Lips)
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, E3, Rhythm We've got more rumors about next week's E3 announcements, but this one seems a bit more plausible. Variety reports that "somebody involved in promoting it"...
View ArticleRumor: Xbox 360's 'Lips' microphone, box art leaked
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Rhythm No sooner does Variety all-but-confirm that Microsoft's somewhat mysterious Lips karaoke project will be shown at E3 then Gamekyo gets their hands on some...
View ArticleGC 2008: Over 2.2m SingStar downloads, Disney version coming to PS2
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Rhythm Sony announced today at the Leipzig Games Convention 2008 that over 2.2 million SingStar songs have been downloaded via the aptly titled SingStore, which...
View ArticleSingStar Volume 2 heading to North America in October
Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Rhythm, Casual Recently released in Europe and Australia, SingStar Vol. 2 will take the stage in North America sometime in October, no doubt letting armchair...
View ArticleKaraoke Joysound Wii dated in Japan, where it will probably stay
Filed under: News, Imports While we completely freak over the news that Alien Crush Returns will be coming Stateside soon, take a brief second to remember Karaoke Joysound Wii. A few months ago,...
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