{"id":102967,"date":"2019-11-01T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/353281"},"modified":"2019-11-01T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T23:05:00","slug":"singstar-servers-slated-for-january-2020-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/singstar-servers-slated-for-january-2020-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"SingStar servers slated for January 2020 shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks behind Sony&#8217;s&nbsp;karaoke game series&nbsp;<em>SingStar&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.singstar.com\/home.html\">announced today<\/a> that the&nbsp;<em>SingStar&nbsp;<\/em>servers will be shut down on January 31st, 2020, bringing the SingStore&#8217;s 15-year song-slinging career to a close.<\/p>\n<p>This is something of an end to an era, as the&nbsp;<em>SingStar&nbsp;<\/em>games have&nbsp;sold tens of millions of copies (chiefly in the U.K.) since the series&#8217; 2004 debut. After the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/179917\/SingStar_goes_freetoplay_well_not_really.php\">went free-to-play<\/a> in 2012 and picked up&nbsp;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/218291\/Singing_into_your_phone_is_the_next_step_for_Singstar.php\">mobile microphone app<\/a> in 2014, it quietly&nbsp;became the dominant competitive karaoke game.<\/p>\n<p>Sony says all online functionality for the SingStore and&nbsp;<em>SingStar&nbsp;<\/em>games will be shut down on the 31st, so players will no longer be able to buy songs, and players on PlayStation 3 consoles will also not be able to redownload&nbsp;songs they&#8217;ve already purchased.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve loved watching the community grow, and have lots of fond memories from working on <em>SingStar,<\/em>&#8221; reads an excerpt of Sony&#8217;s closing statement. &#8220;Your support over the years has meant the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks behind Sony&#8217;s&nbsp;karaoke game series&nbsp;SingStar&nbsp;announced today that the&nbsp;SingStar&nbsp;servers will be shut down on January 31st, 2020, bringing the SingStore&#8217;s 15-year song-slinging career to a close. This is something of an end to an era, as the&nbsp;SingStar&nbsp;games have&nbsp;sold tens of millions of copies (chiefly in the U.K.) since the series&#8217; 2004 debut. After the series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}