<![CDATA[Kotaku: Inis]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Inis]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/inis http://kotaku.com/tag/inis <![CDATA[These Are Lips' Number One Hits]]> Microsoft has confirmed the final lineup for Lips: Number One Hits, the sequel to the Inis-developed karaoke game that hit the Xbox 360 last year. You'll be able to tap into your inner Lady Gaga and MC Hammer this October. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5325927&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Already, Another Lips On The Way]]> It's barely been six months since the release of Lips, Microsoft's shameless swipe at SingStar's karaoke crown. And now, with E3 just around the corner, it seems it's already time for another Lips game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5260586&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pucker Up For Some Lips Downloadable Content]]> Lips is getting its DLC act together, with Microsoft today announcing a raft of new tracks to be made available over the next few weeks. Most suck. But not all. There's still Bobby Brown. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5113892&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Urban Outfitters Give Some Lip and a 360 to Boot]]> Distressed clothes seller Urban Outfitters is running a contest for free Xbox 360s and a copies of Lips. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5113111&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lips Review: Kinda Puckered Up]]> Let’s get this out of the way now. Yes, Lips is a shameless rip-off of Sony’s massively-successful SingStar franchise. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5103940&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Keiichi Yano on Lips, Innovation, and Drunken Karaoke]]> There's a really fun interview up at Gamasutra with Keiichi Yano, chief creative officer of iNiS (the Ouendan series and Elite Beat Agents). The subject is ostensibly Lips, the recently released 360 karaoke title, but a lot of ground is covered in terms of game design and future potential. My favorite part of the discussion is when Yano gets into the decision not to include a fail condition, and instead allow (possibly drunk) warblers to mangle music to their hearts' content: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5097071&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Songs Hit For Lips Today]]> Over the next two weeks motion-friendly Xbox 360 karaoke game Lips will be getting seven new songs to add to its 40 title repertoire. The first batch lands today, the second next week. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5095530&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tsk, And The Lips Trailers Were Going So Well...]]> And Microsoft USA were doing such a bang-up job of promoting Lips! Creepy robot heads, chirpy, disembodied lips...great stuff. A real step forward. Really knocking down the barriers preventing men from playing what's viewed as a girly genre. But these British ads? Two steps back. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5091663&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Microsoft Creeps Us Out With Lips TV Spots]]> Microsoft is aware that Nintendo is the company that "puts more smiles on more faces," so it doesn't bother trying to compete on the happy front. Instead, the company wants to invade your nightmares, filling them with hollowed out heads and disembodied mouth creatures. The company's newest creative torment is for the iNiS developed Xbox 360 singing game Lips, in which a man is haunted by a stalking pair of sentient, lyric-forgetting lips. The mouth beast travels across harsh terrain and unfavorable weather conditions to force the man to do his bidding — to sing A-Ha's "Take On Me" for the sadistic ambling maw's delight. The horror.... More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5091431&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Europe's TENTH Xbox 360 Bundle (This Time With Lips)]]> I picture Microsoft Europe not as a bunch of men in suits, but as a single man up on stage at a karaoke night. Dressed in his best Freddie Mercury white lycra and shelltops, belting out "DONT STOP ME NOW". Because, believe it or not, this is the TENTH Xbox 360 bundle Europe will be seeing this holiday season. Tenth. This one's aimed squarely at the casual user/lapsed Sony fanboy, as it offers an Arcade 360, a copy of Lips and your only chance of ever seeing the iNiS logo on the front of a console. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5070225&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lips Soundtrack, Gameplay Details, Platform Plans Revealed]]> Microsoft will attempt to steal SingStar's karaoke crown this holiday with the release of Lips, the Xbox 360 party game developed by iNiS, mostly famous for musical fare like Gitaroo Man and Elite Beat Agents. Today, the company announced further details on Lips, including the 40 song strong soundtrack, new gameplay modes and further details on how you'll use your iPod or Zune in the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5067191&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Preorder Lips, Get Free Songs]]> Lips may be a bit of a hard sell for Microsoft. Mostly because both the PS2 and PS3 already do SingStar, and have been doing it for years. But hey, bundling free stuff never hurt a game's sales prospects, so there's no harm in Microsoft offering "one free song every week for two months" with every preorder lodged at GameStop. That's eight free songs. The catch? You can't choose from any eight songs, you have to pick from a list "chosen for you by the Zune team". The Zune team? Nothankyou.jpg. If I have to choose songs from somebody else's Zune list, it's Dude Huge or bust. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5066897&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lips Makes Singing "Half A Rediscovery"]]> Xbox 360 title Lips isn't just a singing game. It's much more. Keiichi Yano (pictured), co-founder of Lips developer iNiS, points out that the game is interactive in a way singing games haven't been previously. Yanno explains: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5064208&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Not Excited About Lips? Maybe You Should Be]]> When Japanese developer iNiS was confirmed to be attached to the Xbox 360 singing game, Lips, it might have felt like an odd project for the team. Responsible for rhythm classics like Gitaroo Man and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, Lips looked simply like a SingStar clone, a fraction of the experience available in Rock Band. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5026024&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Take A Look At iNiS' Lips]]> One of the worst-kept secrets of Microsoft's E3 address today was the announcement of iNiS' Lips, a karaoke game for the 360. While it may not have SingStar's suave, European sex appeal, it certainly looks to have a charm of its own, and including motion-sensing mics and the ability to use your own songs (Note: "The functionality of songs played from personal music collections will vary") are nice touches. As for the above shot, well, I always said the first of these games to include Bust A Move would get my money. I'm a man of my word. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5025118&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[First Look At 'Lips', iNiS' Xbox 360 Karaoke Game, And Its Bedazzling Microphone]]> A title that's guaranteed to be "announced" at Microsoft's E3 Media Briefing this Monday is Lips, the iNiS developed answer to Sony's SingStar. The musically inclined team behind Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, Gitaroo Man and Elite Beat Agents was previously rumored to be behind the sing-along title, but consider it doubly confirmed now. Gamekyo not only lists the Japanese dev in its news story on the game, iNiS president Keichi Yanno can be seen busting what appears to be a rhyme in product shots of the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5024460&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[We Get It, Lips Will Be Shown At E3]]> We've long been working under the assumption that Microsoft have conned Ouendan/Elite Beat Agents creators iNiS into developing a Singstar-killing karaoke game - called Lips - for the Xbox 360. An assumption that should next week be kicked up a notch. Variety's Ben Fritz is reporting that "Microsoft will be debuting a brand new music/singing game", which fits Lips' mission statement pretty snugly. Having been almost continually disappointed by SingStar PS3's tracklist, here's hoping iNiS can get this one right. And if not, can at least get it wrong but with Ouendan's homework-finishing, meteor-deflecting charm. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023621&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Elite Beat Agents Team Working on Lips?]]> It looks like that Xbox 360 game that Elite Beat Agent dev iNiS said they were working on is likely rumored and then leaked karaoke title Lips. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017110&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Singapore Cosplayers Go Crazy For Ouendan]]> This cosplay performance of the [spoiler alert!] last level in Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 may scream "amateur hour" and have a distinct lack of cheerleaders that don't look like spindly boys, but it's the thought that counts. You can barely hear the Sambomaster and the camera looks to be mounted on a radio controlled helicopter piloted by a drunk being tasered, but you have to give these attendees of Singapore's Anime@Expo EOY con credit for giving it a go. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=335865&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[iNiS Working On 360 Title]]> I'm a big fan of rhythm games, so the developer of Elite Beat Agents and Gitaroo Man working on a title for the Xbox 360 is pretty big news to me. In an interview with Gamasutra and Microsoft's Gamefest, iNiS co-founder Keiichi Yano confirms that there is a 360 game in the works.
However, when if there were Xbox 360 games that iNiS itself is in development on, Yano guardedly confirmed: "Yeah. We are currently working on a title. I can't really get into it more than, 'Yes, we're working on something!'" No further details on publisher or genre were available for the game.
Considering the most successful games iNiS has created have been rhythm games, I'm going to go ahead and put my money on another one of those, which would be simply peachy. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=299988&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 Impressions!]]> My import copy of Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 showed up this morning, and, since our man in Japan, Brian Ashcraft, refuses to play the game, I'll lend you my impressions. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=261326&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Gallery: New Ouendan 2 Screens Are Motivating]]> More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=255008&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Osu! Hot Blooded Ouendan 2 Box Art!]]> It's time to get increasingly overexcited as the cover art for the iNiS-developed sequel Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 has been revealed. Let's all pray to our various gods that the manga/rhythm game fares better financially than its predecessor, now that every Japanese man, woman, child and puppy owns a Nintendo DS. Michael McWhertor More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=253434&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Music of Ouendan 2 Revealed]]> As you all know, iNiS is bringing Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 to the Nintendo DS next month. Today, we have some details on the game's soundtrack. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=251534&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ouendan 2 Coming Next Month]]> According to the latest Famitsu, by way of NeoGAF's Japan-bound newshound Jonnyram, comes exciting hot-blooded news that the sequel to iNiS's totally radical Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan will be coming sooner than expected. It ships to Japanese retailers on May 17th, just five short but agonizing weeks from now. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=251288&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Keiichi Yano At DICE]]> Poor Mr. Yano. I've been bugging the man responsible for personal faves Gitaroo Man and Elite Beat Agents since I ran into him at the DICE opening night party on Wednesday. The iNiS co-founder was nice enough to chat with me about Survivor, MTV's The Real World, Ossu! Tatakae!! Ouendan, The Train Man (Densha Otoko) and alternate reality games—something that seemed to be a rarity in his native Japan. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=235217&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Will Wright, iNiS Dude Talk Up DICE 07]]>
Spore man and media darling Will Wright will be one of the speakers at next week's DICE Summit in Henderson, Nevada. Will's speech will focus on the staffing of the Spore development and is appropriately titled "I am not alone in this universe: Will Wright speaks on building the SPORE team" and goes down on Thursday, February 8 at 2:45 PM. More »
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