Archive for May, 2008

More news on the Ninja Gaiden front: now you can add Sonia, the CIA character assisting Ryu against The Fiends. Here’s her card!






And there are sweet background images for your Zune, available on Zune.net:


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Zune has just announced that over the course of the next few weeks they will be adding 400 new TV episodes along with content from the USA Network. The new content will begin to be added as of today, May…

 

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be expanding the video store by 50%, adding 400 episodes, and one new network: USA.



 


Here’s the list of what’s coming.


·         Wednesday, May 28: COMEDY CENTRAL


o    “The Colbert Report” *


o    “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”


 


·         Friday, May 30: NBC Universal


o    “Friday Night Lights”


o    “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”


o    “Law & Order”


o    “Life”


o    “Lipstick Jungle”


o    “Saturday Night Live”


 


·         Tuesday, June 3: SCI FI Channel


o    “Battlestar Galactica Classics”


o    “Destination Truth”


o    “Ghost Hunters International”


o    “Ghost Hunters”


o    “Who Wants to Be a Superhero?”


 


·         Friday, June 6: USA Network


o    “Dr. Steve-O”


o    “In Plain Sight”


o    “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”


o    “Monk”


o    “Psych”


o    “The Starter Wife”


There’s more in the press release. And over the next few months, we’re bringing Bravo Networks on board. More on this as it develops!


*Long-time readers will remember that I’m a Stephen Colbert fanboy.

 

I just met Philippe Riel from Microsoft Canada to discuss the Zune and Zune Originals. I’ve seen the seven new Zune Originals designs made by Canadian artists, and they look fabulous. The new designs will be available to Canadians and…

 

Google has nothing on open source when it comes to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, according to Redmond’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie.