Rumor: Microsoft's 'Lips' is an Xbox accessory

by Ludwig Kietzmann on May 12th 2008 3:42PM

We've already blown the whistle on several new projects that may be announced at Microsoft's Gamer's Day tomorrow, with "Ninja Blade" and "Lips" being the most nebulous of the bunch. We still don't know what the former is, but 8Bit Joystick has shared a couple of thoughts on the latter matter. The site states that "Lips" is, in fact, the codename for a new Xbox peripheral, and speculates that it could be a voice input device (karaoke microphone?) or some method of in-game voice recognition.

For now, we'll go with, "Hmm, intriguing." Let's hope Microsoft drops the balm tomorrow and fills us in on these ... e-lips ...

[Thanks, Jake]

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Tags: Accessory, Lips, Microsoft, Microsoft-Gamers-Day-2008, Peripheral, Rumor, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (56)

It's just an accessory for the fullest possible "Hot Coffee" experience on the 360 version of GTA4.

Good god didn't anyone here buy Rainbow Six Vegas 2? Tom Clancy's EndWar game will have voice control, there was a video of the FragDolls using it with the XBL wired mics and it looked OK, so that may be it.

Usually though code-names have nothing to do with what the project is actually about, and EndWar WAS working with an XBL mic, and there's really no reason no need people to buy an additional accessory, etc etc etc...

Tend to think it's more like we're going to see a BluRay peripheral tomorrow, it's about time.

Language Interface Peripherals

Wicked, most people here aren't saying it doesn't exist or that they've never seen or heard it, they're just saying how/why/where they'd like to see it incorporated into more games.