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Enjoy! Karaoke for Facebook lets you fill your home or office with the magic of shared song

Facebook is huge. Karaoke is huge. Put ’em together, and you get Enjoy! Karaoke—potentially the biggest game to hit Facebook in a long time. You’ll be able to sing karaoke online, with your buddies (or by yourself), at any time. No minimum drink purchase required.

Home-based karaoke games are nothing new, but as Sony’s profitable SingStar series demonstrates, they’re extremely popular. Unlike SingStar and other karaoke games on the market, however, Enjoy! Karaoke doesn’t require a game console. You just need your computer, your Facebook account, and an audio input device, like a common headset/microphone combo.

With Enjoy! Karaoke, you earn points and bonus points for singing well. You can then compare your score to your Facebook friends’ scores, so sing your heart out—unless you’re competing for the most shameful Facebook performance of all time. You’re also able to collect Gold and Platinum Discs, the latter of which are purchasable via Facebook credits.

Ah, but what about the music roster? No worries: you won’t be singing dismal tunes that were shuffled over to the public domain sometime during the Great War. All the latest karaoke staples are present as well as the classics, including Bon Jovi, Katy Perry, Pink, and Lady GaGa.

Enjoy! Karaoke focuses on enhanced social interaction and integration, which 2Fold20Play hopes will give the game an advantage over the console-based competition. Can anyone say, “Online karaoke battle uploaded to YouTube?”

Enjoy! Karaoke hits Facebook on April 26. In the meantime, take a deep breath, practice your scales, and get ready to enjoy karaoke.

Nadia Oxford

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In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.