Rumor: Xbox 360's 'Lips' microphone, box art leaked
by Kyle Orland 
on Jul 11th 2008 4:25PM
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 apparent promotional shots of the game's wireless microphones (above) and box art. No screenshots of the gameplay yet, but the photo dump does include two pictures of people standing around with microphones near their mouths (you know, in case you were wondering what
karaoke looked like).
Actually, these singing shots do show one interesting feature: the "lights on the shaft of the microphone that pulse to the rhythm of your voice," that were
hinted at in last month's leaked
Intellivoice Intellisponse survey. According to the pictures, this feature takes the form of two rings of light near the base and tip of the microphone, bathing the singers' hands in an ethereal blue or red glow. We'll let you know if the feature comes off as trippy or tacky when we inevitably get some hands-on time with the game next week.
[Update: Corrected the name of the Intellisponse survey. Not to be confused with
Intellivoice. Whoops!]
