First Lips DLC goes live today

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 November, 2008

With more due next week.

Microsoft has announced that four new songs will be available today for its new karaoke game Lips, and that add-ons will be priced at 160 Microsoft Points (GBP 1.36 / EUR 1.92) per downloadable song. The four available today are:

  • Adele - "Chasing Pavements"
  • Coldplay - "Violet Hill"
  • Estelle - "No Substitute Love"
  • Jason Mraz - "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)"

Not content with that, Microsoft has already lined up three more for next Friday, 28th November, at the same price. Those songs will be:

  • Smashmouth - "All Star"
  • Supertramp - "Give a Little Bit"
  • Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles"

Lips itself is out in Europe today. It's Microsoft's answer to SingStar, including two wireless microphones, a similar karaoke system and some other novelty gameplay bits, with 40 songs to sing.

However, we were rather down on it once the initial sheen wore off, as you can see in our 5/10 Lips review from the other day. Hopefully as the catalogue of DLC improves it will make more sense, but flaws in the fundamentals may get in the way. We shall see and take a more considered look once things have matured a bit.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Avaloner #1 3 years ago

    Can you mute the original singer's voice? That is the real question.

  • Knoxin #2 3 years ago

    0.99p on Ps3 all tracks except packs, I hate MS so much for been so greedy. I have also read the price is dependent on the song as well:(

    unsure if I will get this now

  • Doctor_What #3 3 years ago

    They're rubbish songs too!

  • t8yman #4 3 years ago

    shite songs, extortionately priced. I'll pass thanks. I had high hopes for lips, having had some great times with singstar in the past. M$ could really fuck this one up if they arent careful.

  • dr_faulk #5 3 years ago

    "We shall see and take a more considered look once things have matured a bit."

    You better! After your wholly misleading preview from the other week!

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #6 3 years ago

    I think we can say they have fucked this up, they need to patch the game fast with alot of game changing content and sort the prices out and song list

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #7 3 years ago

    I think we can say they have fucked this up, they need to patch the game fast with alot of game changing content and sort the prices out and song list

  • kangarootoo #8 3 years ago

    Christ, £1.36? No thanks.

  • Les #9 3 years ago

    Thanks MS for putting the price pressure on SingStar... :(

  • Hinksy #10 3 years ago

    It's been suggested that the reason Singstar gets hardly any decent tracks on the SingStore is because of the low price of tracks. Universal are apparently one company who refuse to go on Singstar because of the pricing. If MS charging £1.36 means that they can score bigger artists and tracks then I'll happily pay for better content. Although, some of the initial content is poor for the price I admit. Elvis and others Xmas music is on the 5th December too apparently.

  • oreillymj #11 3 years ago

    Presumably it's the Muzik biz who are screwing us over. MS are only passing on a certain price plus their cut.

    The big record companies hate the fact they have to sell tracks on iTunes at 99p even though they're distribution costs are zero and the tracks themselves are substandard quality to what you actually get on CD.
    They must be rubbing their greedy hands at all the dosh coming in from Guitar Hero,Rockband, Singstar & now Lips.

    Unfortunately it'll be free champagne & coke for everyone at the Brit awards next year methinks.

    I was hoping the whole muzik biz would implode taking Simon Cowell, X-factor Westlife and the rest of the shite Boy/Girl bands with them, so that decent artists could make some money from their music.

    Anyway, Lips is fast sinking into a sewage pit of mediocrity of it's own making.

  • CHAZBIGPOTATO #12 3 years ago

    Does the FX rate of the Pound to the Dollar affect the exchange rate between MS points and pounds? In which case its Gordon Brown/Alastair Darlings fault! Screw decent mortgage rates, we want cheap downloads!

  • kangarootoo #13 3 years ago

    "The big record companies hate the fact they have to sell tracks on iTunes at 99p even though they're distribution costs are zero and the tracks themselves are substandard quality to what you actually get on CD"

    Really? Not sure where you got that idea from. Most record companies are quite happy selling their wares on iTunes, as they have started making money again. And what have distribution costs and audio quality got to do with anything?

    Do you mean record companies would prefer to sell tracks for more than 99p, or less?

  • Les #14 3 years ago

    "The big record companies hate the fact they have to sell tracks on iTunes at 99p even though they're distribution costs are zero"

    If the record companies really think that distribution costs are zero then they are big idiots... Most of them have realised by now that retail is an art (or craft) in its own and they shouldn't mess with it themselves. They're perfectly capable to determine at what price they want to sell their content to the middle man (iTunes in this case) but they should have no say in what the retailer charges to the consumer. This is regardless of whether the retail channel is electronic or bircks-and-mortar.

  • dr_faulk #15 3 years ago

    I bought Lips today. Am I an idiot?

  • Knoxin #16 3 years ago

    Nah your not lips is good some very good Ideas in there just means Sing have to up there game and what you on about singstar not go any good tracks they have loads

    Vol 3 looks ace
    SingStar Vol.3 track list:

    Aerosmith - Cryin'
    Amy McDonald - This Is The Life
    Barry Manilow - Copacabana
    Coldplay - Viva La Vida
    David Bowie - Space Oddity
    Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's
    Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me
    Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene... It's An Arms Race
    Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
    Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
    Gwen Stefani feat. Akon - The Sweet Escape
    Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro
    Heaven 17 - Temptation
    k.d. lang - Constant Craving
    Kate Bush - Babooshka
    Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
    Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long (All Night)
    Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
    Paul McCartney And Stevie Wonder - Ebony And Ivory
    Queen - Killer Queen
    Sara Bareilles - Love Song
    Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
    Take That - Could It Be Magic
    Texas - Say What You Want
    The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye
    The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
    Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are
    Timbaland feat. OneRepublic - Apologize
    Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
    Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma


    raise the bar anyone

  • joff #17 3 years ago

    For Lips to be a success, there needs to be a LOT of DLC... and cheap DLC at that. MS either need to work out a deal with the record labels or subsidise the cost to the gamer.