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Zune Games are here!

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-05-09T08:32:21+00:00

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...

Zune v2.5 released. Update now!

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-05-06T14:08:12+00:00

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...

Chris Satchell talks about XNA Games

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-04-13T19:51:38+00:00

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...

ZuneJourney nominated for a Webby Award

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-04-09T01:32:17+00:00

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! ...

Zune-Arts Video: Piece of Me Piece of You

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-04-08T18:33:54+00:00

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...

Zune partners with MSN Latino and Remezcla

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-04-08T15:01:45+00:00

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 ...

zSuite v2 Enhancement for Zune Released

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-04-05T09:44:27+00:00

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...

Beware the Zune-Arts Podcast. It Bites!

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-03-19T13:06:42+00:00

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...

Red Zune 80 Available again on Zune Originals

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-03-19T12:41:13+00:00

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...

Music Steering coming to music players

Kostas Tzounopoulos — 2008-03-13T22:42:54+00:00

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...