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Xbox 360′s newly announced crooner app – simply called ‘Karaoke’ – will feature a library of 8000 tracks to massacre, and will charge players on a time basis, rather than an initial fee. It’s another dip into the free-to-play pool by Microsoft. Get the details below.

PlayXBLA reports that Karaoke – which is a collaboration between Microsoft and The Karaoke Channel – will stream games direct from your console, rather than making you download them.

It also operates a time-based payment model that lets players buy blocks of time in denominations of two, six or 24 hours via MS Points, and will also come with achievements, audio controls and your avatar singing along on screen.

Thanks Eurogamer.

"It’s another dip into the free-to-play pool by Microsoft."

That free to play, where it isnt free to play. I wonder if its also a Gold exclusive...

How is it free to play if you have to pay to play it?

Anyways, could be good for people who are interested.

It's just like Wii/Wii U's karaoke app

kowenicki said: Euphoria14 said: How is it free to play if you have to pay to play it? Anyways, could be good for people who are interested. Its a silly articel. Neither Singstar nor this are free to play.  Singstar is free to play i guess if you dont mind singing acapella.  You have to buy the tracks.

People are better off just buying an actual karaoke machine.

For the people wondering no it is not free to play. this is more like arcades than FTP. Regardless this is smart because people having parties can just turn on an xbox and jump in. If it works well you will probably see more stuff like this in the future in the gaming industry.

This is way closer to subscription gaming than F2P gaming. I swear, most "Core" developers/journalists have no idea what free-to-play actually stands for.