GDC08: XNA games coming to Zune

by Christopher Grant on Feb 20th 2008 2:38PM

Microsoft's Chris Satchell just announced that XNA Game Studios games can also be made for Zune. He showed off a brief demo of Zauri – a topdown shooter. XNA Zune games can also support custom soundtracks (this is an MP3 player after all). Satchell promises that you'll be able to take games from Windows, to Xbox, to Zune. No word on the availability of this functionality on Zunes; more as we know it.

Tags: GDC, GDC08, Microsoft, Zune

Reader Comments (20)

hopefully developers will actually do this instead of talk about it. I'd like to see AudioSurf on the Zune.

This is going to be awesome... Hopefully we'll see some awesome titles coming to Zune with reasonable prices and available very soon...

Games I'd Like to see:

Carcassonne
Tetris
Magic: The Gathering

That's awesome!

Now give us a clock and metadata support for .mp4 videos and I'm happy.

I'd really like to see Zune-360 integration where I can play Zune mini-games that help out my character in a console title. Or where I can download my character from the console to the Zune and then use him to battle against another dude through Zune multi-player, then upload the results back into the console game.

I no longer play WoW, or any other MMO for that matter, however it would be a pretty cool addition like they were talking about the other day where you can access like an auction house type feature.

That would be sweet on the Zune. Also maybe a small web-browser app. I know it isn't an iPod touch or similar device, but I think it could work out alright, the squircle button wouldn't make typing out addresses to difficult.

I hope it will work with the older zunes. I don't want to have to buy a new one just for games.

The Zune30 and Zune80/8 are essentially the same pieces of hardware with the exception of the touchpad. I don't see why it wouldn't work on all versions of Zune so far.

(I have the Zune30 so maybe it's wishful thinking!)

new ones have a hardware video decoder

I would bet that it would work with software updates. Other than the new pad, its the same device and when the new model came out we updated our Zune with the OS without problems.