The folks at Pocket Gamer UK have published some hands-on information about Zune gaming over here on their website. Here are some interesting tidbits about game development on the Zune platform.

• Zune development kits will begin shipping to teams this spring with an emphasis on community developed games
• Microsoft is looking to make game development as easy as possible - providing unified tools for the Zune, the Xbox 360 and the PC platform (think common APIs etc)
• The kits will come with networking software and multiplayer games will support up to eight players although the exact number will be dictated by the games at hand

They also played around with the game Zauri which was being demoed by Microsoft on the Zune. According to Pocket Gamer:

Moving your spaceship to blast aliens with your laser is as easy as drawing your finger across the pad. Tap it and you drop a smart bomb. The huge screen made great sense for Zauri – not only did it look crisp and detailed, but it worked well for the top-down action. A simple game, sure, but nonetheless entertaining.

You can read more about this here on Pocket Gamer’s website.

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