Zune-Online.com brings you the latest news about Microsoft Zune. http://www.zune-online.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:26:32 +0200 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.zune-online.com/images/M_images/zune-online-logo-full.gif http://www.zune-online.com Zune-Online.com brings you the latest news about Microsoft Zune. http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-games-are-here.html XNA Game Studio 3.0 is released, at least as Community Technical Preview which supports Windows and Zune games. You can download and install it and experience the first Zune games. This is definitely a hot Zune Spring! Read more below... News - Zune Fri, 09 May 2008 08:32:21 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-v2.5-released.-update-now.html Zune team released today the spring update which has all the rights to call itself Zune v2.5 . The highlights of the new version is the Video Content in Zune Marketplace (TV shows), new Social Features, better video experience with better browsing and audio with gapless playback. And the bad news for those not in North America is.... bye bye Zune Marketplace, no longer allowed to even sign in! Read more details about the new release... News - Zune Tue, 06 May 2008 14:08:12 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/chris-satchell-talks-about-xna.html Microsoft XNA group general manager, Chris Satchell, talks about the game development platform of Windows, Xbox360 and Zune. He says the beta will be released this May, available to Creators Club Members only and the full product at the end of 2008 as expected. In his interview on Eurogamer concentrates on the users and developers experience but also talks about handling security issues by making XNA games run in a sandbox instead of normal native code... News - Zune Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:51:38 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zunejourney-nominated-for-a-webby-award.html ZuneJourney is the promotional site Zune team launched a couple of weeks before the official release of the 2007 Zune players, Zune 4 8 and Zune 80. Its an interactive site with animations guiding the user through the new Zune main features in an interesting way. Webby Awards placed it as a nominee in the Websites category for the award of Best use of animation or motion graphics . I think you know who to vote by the 1st of May! ... News - Zune Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:32:17 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-arts-video-piece-of-me-piece-of-you.html The latest video addition in Zune-Arts.net comes from Three Legged Legs . It's the middle of the night in the city when we zombies attack normal everyday people like you. But we like to dance and share pieces, we're not the normal crawling zombies you've been used to, way of speaking... News - Zune Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:33:54 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-partners-with-msn-latino-and-remezcla.html A new partnership for Zune, this time with MSN-Latino and Remezcla.com . Zune will be the exclusive music sponsor for both sites presenting a new online platform on April 15th in order to maximize the reach of the Hispanic community artists. MSN Latino's music channel will also be rebranded as Zune Musica in 2009 ... News - Zune Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:01:45 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune-online/zsuite-2-enhancement-for-zune-released.html zSuite is maybe the best effort to add new functionality and enhance the Zune Software experience. Coming not from Microsoft but directly from the Zune community, DarkZune.com, makes it more interesting to check out it's features: zAlternator, zThemer, zExplorer, zIconer. Congratulations to PityOnU and the other guys and gals who worked on this. Notice, Microsoft doesn't provide any help or documentation on how to create stuff like this... News - Zune Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:44:27 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/beware-the-zune-arts-podcast.-it-bites.html Have you checked the new Zune-Arts Podcast ? You can find it on Zune Marketplace (for free of course) and subscribe if you are interested on Zune-Arts videos and behind the scenes shots and interviews. On the latest episode, Three Legged Legs, describe how they make Zombie-Puppets talk about friendship and sharing - of flesh I suppose - Piece of Me, Piece of You, a video not yet published on Zune-Arts. You've been warned, it bites... News - Zune Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:06:42 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/red-zune-80-available-again-on-zune-originals.html Yes, this is the Valentine's day Red Zune 80 from Zune Originals and no, this is not the Valentine's day. Just Zune team decided to make it available again, in the normal Zune 80 price of $249.99 + a few more $ for customization - sorry the free era of Zune Originals looks like its over now... News - Zune Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:41:13 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/music-steering-coming-to-music-players.html What if your Zune could understand which tracks are similar to the one you just listened and play them next? What if you can select to listen to aggressive or soft music and then let Zune find the right tracks? Science fiction you may think but that won't be the case in a few years. Watch this video from Microsoft Research Tech Fest 2008... News - Zune Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:42:54 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-3-will-be-released-in-europe-too.html Francois Ruault of Microsoft France, revealed to the French newspaper Les Echos the big secret: Zune 3 will be released in Europe too. It will be ready in fall 2009, using the same name (of course). The Marketplace will be supported on PC but we may also see it running on Zune and on Windows Mobile 7. I remind you by holidays 2008 we'll also have games on our Zunes, making the whole thing pretty interesting... News - Zune Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:22:35 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/what-is-the-zune-live-.html Microsoft in its Support Knowledge Base has added a new tag to help users identify their problems: Zune Live. Could this mean Xbox Live and Zune Live will come closer together in the future? Microsoft executives have mentioned in the past a merge of the two services which after all use the same background technology... News - Zune Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:22:10 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/video-game-running-on-a-zune-80.html This video is from the Microsoft keynote in GDC 2008 yesterday, where gaming on Zune was announced. A preview version of XNA Game Studio 3.0 platform which supports creating games on PCs Xbox 360 and Zune players will be available this spring and the product is expected to be available by the end of this year. Watch the video below... News - Zune Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:16:58 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-a-day-giveaway.-learn-how.html Microsoft in order to promote Windows Live Hotmail for mobile, gives away a Zune 8 per day till March 31st. All you have to do is send an e-mail using your Mobile phone and Mobile Hotmail. Fast and easy... News - Zune Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:35:12 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/all-the-details-about-gaming-on-zune.html The most important is Zune games will be supported on all Zunes available as of today: Zune 4/8, Zune 30 and Zune 80. XNA development platform will support 2D graphics and multiplayer gaming among 2 or more ad-hoc players (in the same location, not via internet). And a preview of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 which will do all these will be available this spring. Read more information after the jump ... News - Zune Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:13:49 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/online-multiplayer-games-for-zune.html XNA Game Studio platform will be supported on Zune with 1000 games available by the end of the year. Additionally online multiplayer games will be supported on Zune. According to ZunInsider, Microsoft won't change the orientation of Zune project to games (yet?) and is not announcing consumer availability for games, just the support of the platform on Zune... News - Zune Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:45:56 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-gets-xna-based-games.html Christopher Satchell of Microsoft just announced on GDC keynote that XNA Game Studio games will be supported on Zune too as well as on PCs and Xbox 360s. Not much information are available about the timeframe of this currently. We'll get back when there are more information. Read below a part of his announcement ... News - Zune Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:32:31 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/new-zune-arts-video-tickle-party.html The latest Zune-Arts video is about some strange creatures who cry tears of magic-rubies when unhappy but when tickled and happy they laugh and silver stones with golden horses jump out of their mouth. I don't think you can find a strangest video anywhere on the internet for the Valentine's Day ! ... News - Zune Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:49:36 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/accessories/cases/proporta-releases-2-new-cases-for-zune-4--8.html Two new cases released by Proporta, a company from UK, for the 2nd generation Zune 4GB 8GB players. The first is the known black Alu-Leather case constructed by Aluminum and Leather, which was released last year for the Zune 30 too. The second is a Silicon case in white... Accessories - Cases Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:32:14 +0200 http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/zune-8-erp-drops-to-179.99.html Microsoft descreased the Estimated Retail Price for Zune 8 players from $199.99 to 179.99 while leaving Zune 4 at the same $149.99 as before making it a good idea to buy the bigger model for only $30 more. Could it also mean we are close to a Zune 16 release like the yellow specil edition he'd seen a few weeks ago? ... News - Zune Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:01:54 +0200