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“Specifically, Microsoft has laser-etched that pesky little "Crimson Omen" onto a glossy black Zune 120, pre-loaded the device with 244 pieces of "Gears of War" media -- the soundtrack, concept art, behind-the-scenes vids and so forth, nothing you won't be able to find elsewhere -- and squeezed it all into some "collectible" Gears packaging, featuring our testosterone-addled protagonist pondering the meaning of life. The whole kit will run you $280, with pre-orders at Walmart.com and Amazon.com”

If there’s one thing that Microsoft likes to do, it’s make special edition Zunes. There’s been more of them than I can count! But that’s ok, I happen to really like most of them. It works out well that they have a couple of great properties like this one that allow them to really give a unique Zune too. I’d say this is the perfect gift for any “Gears of War” fan. (Well, other than a copy of “Gear of War 2” of course.) Engadget has some more pictures too!

Wow, I go away for a week and everything in the Zune world turns upside down it feels like. I just got back from Indianapolis last night (and I’m still trying to recover I might add) and I find that Zune Masters is shut down and the URGE partnership has evaporated. I’m not surprised ZM went away but I never suspected URGE was going to blow up on Microsoft. I certainly hope they knew it. With all of the somewhat sad news here, I was hoping I could find something to brighten things up. Anything would do really.

Sadly all I could find were stale rumors about Zune 2.0 and the 1.5 firmware update. That’s when I found this on Zune-Online.com.



And if that goofy looking dinosaur thing can look that happy on the back of a Zune holding some balloons that look like brains, well, then things must not be too bad. Right?