How to Install the New Games on Zune [Hexic, Texas Hold 'Em]

This information should just be out there and readily available, but it’s not. So, I’m hoping this will help a few frustrated souls.

With Zune 3.0, Microsoft included 2 new games on the Zune player. What I like about what Microsoft is doing is that any previous hardware version of the Zune player can install a firmware update and get the same functionality as the new Zunes being sold in stores today.

The problem was, after installing the new Zune 3.0 software for my ol’ blackbox Zune 30, I found it didn’t include the two new games, Hexic and Texas Hold ‘Em. Upon searching the interwebs, I found instructions regarding installing games on the Zune through the XNA Game Studio software (which, if you’re a DIYer, I would recommend taking a look at), but nothing telling me where the heck where my new games.

I finally search the Microsoft Knowledge Base, limiting the search to just “Zune Digital Media Player,” and I found my answer:

If you have already updated your Zune device, follow these steps:
1. Connect your Zune device to your computer, and then start the Zune software.
2. Click Settings, click Device, and then click Device Update.
3. Click Install Games.

So, in other words, once you update to Zune 3.0, you gotta go back an update again.