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Microsoft has released a handful of free games for its new Zune HD , but these games, developed in-house, come with a catch: ads. You’ll have to watch either a static or video advertisement while the game starts up. That could take as long as 30 seconds for Chess, Ars Technica reports, and 17 seconds for Goo Splat. The other available games are Hexic, Sudoku, Space Battle 3, Shell Game… Of the Future, and Texas Hold ’Em. Two utility apps, Calculator and Weather, are also available, but they don’t show ads during start-up

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