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Special Zune Holiday Offers

Microsoft’s Zune has some offers for the holiday, different depending on where you buy the device, that won’t blow you away but at least should be interesting.

Amazon.com will give you $5 of free music if you buy a 4-gig Zune, or $15 free with an 8-gig Zune. The music comes from Amazon’s DRM-free MP3 download store, meaning it’ll work on any player you own, not just the Zune. Oddly enough, the 80-gig Zune only gives you $5 free, but Amazon is selling it for $240, ten dollars below retail.

Best Buy will give you a $20 gift card if you buy an 8-gig Zune or 30-gig first-gen Zune. Buy a 4-gig Zune and get a $10 card.

Circuit City’s offer apparently earns you 15 free song downloads on a 4-gig pink Zune or 80-gig Zune, though the offer might change, often.

Wal-Mart supposedly has an offer, but I have no freakin clue what it is.

December 16th, 2007 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Zune, Windows Media | 2 comments



Get Yer Bill Gates Snow Globe

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Geek Culture has snow globe kits you might be interested in, if you like putting together your own snow globes. They cost $19.49, but the truly adventurous might want to try out the Bill Gates Playing In Money globe, pictured above, which costs an additional $9.50 for the included gold coin glitter and tiny green dollar bills (plus $8.45 shipping, for a total of $37.44). If you absolutely have to have Gates frolicking in cash, go for it.
(via Gizmodo)

December 16th, 2007 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Corporate, Humor | one comment

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Halo 3: Game of the Year?

Halo Uprising 01 page 29Time Magazine has named Halo 3 its Game of the Year. Not that its unanimous. Bioshock was tops at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, as did Fox News, and I’m sure some could make arguments for Guitar Hero III, Rock Band, Gears of War, Crysis, even Crackdown or some game I’m not thinking of. Regardless of which game people say is tops, it’s safe to say that most of the best games of 2007 were available on Xbox 360.

Who do you think was the top game of the year?

December 16th, 2007 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Halo 3, Halo, Gears of War, Xbox 360, Xbox | 2 comments