NOTE: The update may not go live until 18 December 2008.

In addition to the patch (now live) to allow disc-swapping and audio/video recording of legacy PS2 SingStar titles, we'll be seeing a pretty significant update to the US SingStore this week. The update includes 10 songs from this week's European SingStore update, 10 songs from previous European SingStore updates, and the Festive Fun (Christmas) Song Pack.

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Three Speech writes: "Exciting stuff just in from Sony…

It's the first anniversary of SingStar for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have a special celebration gift for loyal PlayStation®2 (PS2) SingStars: the ability to play our collection of PS2 discs through SingStar PS3! Arriving right in time for the holiday SingStar party season, a free online update to SingStar PS3 will allow PS2 SingStars to upgrade to PS3 safe in the knowledge that they can take their whole collection of discs with them – while PS3 SingStars can now dust off their PS2 discs and relive the SingStar parties of holidays gone by.

All you'll need to do is connect to PlayStation®Network when the online update goes live on December 16th – 10:00 AM GMT."
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Three Speech reports:

"London, 24th November 2008: Treat yourself to a Festive Fun SongPack for SingStar® from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Invite your friends around, hang out the mistletoe, serve up some Christmas treats and sing the night away with these five magical Christmas hits, all in one easily downloadable SongPack from SingStore. Arriving just in time for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) on November 27th - these five festive hits will be sure to spice up any holiday do!"

Hit the jump for the list of the five songs included in the Festive Fun SongPack for Europe!
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NextGamer posted up the full list of the SingStore update for 13 november.
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Sony hasn't fallen behind in the social gaming race, it has insisted.

Speaking at the Gamer 3.0 conference this morning in London, which is part of the London Games Festival, Jamie MacDonald, vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios insisted that the SingStar, Buzz! And EyeToy games are "still hugely successful".
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While the world waits patiently for SingStar Queen, Sony have gone and done the next best thing, and released two Queen song packs onto the PS3's downloadable SingStore. The ten songs included across the two packs will most probably all be found on the standalone PS2 version, and from the look of them, it's a highlights reel, with Bohemian Rhapsody, One Vision, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions and I Want It All included.
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A patch went out for SingStar a few hours ago which allows users of the popular music game to swap discs to access the content from other SingStar titles. However, this patch will only enable PS3 game discs to be swapped -- not PS2 games. (We're assuming that PS2 functionality will come at a later point.) For Americans that doesn't mean much, as SingStar Volume 2 won't be available until next month.
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The next update for the Singstore on Singstar PS3 has now been revealed, stick out songs include Kiss from a Rose by Sea, Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader and Five's Everybody Get Up, the full list is below for your reading pleasure.
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Colin T. from Infinite Bits talks about how horribly mangled SingStar's DRM system is for its downloadable songs:

"SingStar's DRM is by far and away the most controlling system from a videogame company in this day and age, even outstripping the berserk Spore DRM system (which is hard to do)."

Any owner of SingStar will think twice about downloading a song after reading this...
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Breaking: Iconic Singstar boss Paulina Bozek has quit Sony to join Atari.
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Give it up for Southampton, UK. About 50 brave souls will sing every SingStar song on the PS2 and PS3 discs in the order in which they were released. All of them. One after the other. Non-stop.

Before phoning the loony bin, hear them out (get it?). They are doing it to raise money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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Quote from site:

"Sony have revealed via their official forums the latest update for the Singstore, which will appear on the store from the 4th September.

The update should cater for most peoples tastes with party songs such as Tubthumping by Chumbawamba and We Built this City by Starship making an appearance, sure they aint classics but hey what can you do".
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Official PlayStation.Blog:

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you a quick update on some recent SingStar news. Yesterday we announced that SingStar PS3 Vol. 2 will be coming to the U.S. this October. You can check out the full details on SingStar PS3 Vol.2, as well get the latest on today's SingStore update at IGN.

Coming out of Leipzig, you may have read about a cool new SingStar PS3 disc swap feature which incorporates the SingStar PS2 library. We wanted to make sure everyone was up to speed on what the disc feature entailed, so here's the lowdown from the SingStar development team:

SingStar track compatibility across PS2 & PS3 is enabled via the Disc Swap feature.
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Sony unveils the PSP 3000, 160 GB PS3, controller keypad, EyePet, and Heavy Rain.
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Edge writes: "The present and future of the SingStar franchise was brought more into focus at GC Leipzig Wednesday, as SCEE announced sales milestones and upcoming products for the karaoke series.

Through multiple press releases, Sony Europe has revealed that SingStar as a franchise has sold 13M discs across PAL territories, supplemented by sales DLC sales of 2M songs via the SingStore. In late April, SCEE announced that it had sold 12M retail copies of the games as well as 1M SingStore songs across the same region.

According to SCEE, one SingStore song is sold every ten seconds. My SingStar functionality has also been embraced by 200,000 users, who have uploaded over 50,000 videos to the service to date."
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From PS3Attitude, guest writer Alexander Chalkidis attends Sony's Leipzig keynote speech and writes:

"Heavy Rain: "A truly ground breaking game". David Cage of Quantic Dream introduced it as writer and director. The casting was a demo using a virtual actress. People are eager for something emotional and different[...]. No longer just for kids or teenagers. More complex stories, mature, accessible, no guns or cars, no puzzles, an emotional experience, decision making. Story driven, decisions have consequences. A dark thriller with a mature ambience evoking themes never used before in a game."

Continue reading about what else was announnced at: http://www.ps3attitude.com
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Two weeks have passed, and thus another SingStar update has arrived. In what may come as some unsurprising news, this particular update features not-so-many new tracks and includes mostly songs that have featured on past PlayStation 2 SingStar compilations, including a couple that have appeared on Volume 1 of the PS3 version.

Regardless of old or new, here is the list:
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TheSixthAxis reports:

"We're sure Gamoc will disagree, but he's only a nipper. The best record ever committed to vinyl, New Order's Blue Monday, is hitting the SingStore this Thursday. There's a load of other old crap in there too, but who cares when you've got Blue Monday?"
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This Friday Sony will offer another serious amount of 'new' Singstar songs.
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DarkZero: Sony has announced they will be adding more songs to the Singstore this Thursday (24th July). It is believed this list of songs will only be available on the Euro store, with a different selection hitting the US one. This time there 19 English language songs to download, and a few more for other European countries. We'll happily download Letter From America this time, and go deep-fry a Mars Bar when we wait for the download to finish. The full list is:
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