i'll be you boyfriend 'til the song goes off.

good news everybody! yesterday, while i was at work, i was talking to our microsoft rep and he told me about a n awesome app for my zune. the short version is that combining some different microsoft enables my zune to play video games. i usually try to keep up on all of the gaming news, but at whatever point this happenned, it went completely under my radar. there does not seem to be any major development as far as this is concerned. all of the games thus far have been pretty much those that you would expect to see that hobbyists have spent time making from games as old as time, tetris for example. this is great because there are so many games that are designed for simple interfaces such as cell phones. these are titles that becuase of their simple control schemes have the potential to end up on the zune. i was also given some hopefully positive news about the future of zune. i will not say anything about it because it is not my place to do so. i certainly hope it is true, and i will patiently for a more "official" announcement to discuss it more.

the software that being used to create/emulate games for the zune is also making waves in the 360 live community. this software, referred to as xna, finally allows some people to create games that will be available via xbox live arcade. the benefit to gamers is that this will introduce a new medium of xbla titles that they in fact have the potential to create. the benefit to creators is the potential to introduce money to their wallets. who knows, there could be some great titles to come out of this. i am also sure this will also open the floodgates for a lot of terrible games. hopefully nothing worse than the wii.