Zen Studios is releasing a new table based on the popular Star Wars Rebels TV series. Join Jeff Marchiafava, Reiner, and me as we play a few rounds and talk Star Wars.

As JeffM points out, Zen looked to the series' younger audience when designing this table. Players have adequate time to read through each mode's goals before diving in, and most shots don't require surgical precision. That's not to say it's a gimme, though, as you can see in our games. If you like tables such as Ms. Splosion Man, which have a nice sense of flow, you might want to check this one out even if you're not necessarily into Star Wars.

JeffM and I haven't seen Rebels yet, so we enlisted Reiner's help to walk us through the cast of characters and explain what the heck is going on. It's not like you need to be a loremaster to appreciate something like a pinball table, but knowing a bit of background does help. He also did a great job refreshing my memory for things that happened in the series' original trilogy. How embarrassing!

The table is coming out sometime this year, but I'd put my money on sooner rather than later. Also, as a side note, I nearly doubled JeffM's score the instant we stopped recording. Oh well.

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Star Wars Rebels is getting its own Zen Pinball 2 and Star Wars Pinball table on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita the weekend of April 28th.

Based on the Disney XD animated series, Star Wars Pinball: Star Wars Rebels will include seven missions set during a time period in the Star Wars canon unexplored in the films, according to Zen Studios.

Missions will feature animated TIE fighters, starships like the Ghost, and more.

You'll be able to buy the Star Wars Rebels pinball table as DLC for Zen Pinball 2 or as part of the standalone Star Wars Pinball on April 28th in the US and April 29th in Europe.

Price will be announced soon.Find out more in Zen Studios' PlayStation blog post.

Chloi Rad is a Staff Writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at@_chloi.

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Consumer and business ISP Zen Internet appears to have officially expanded into offering a full wholesale solution and selling direct to other providers, which goes well beyond the limited partner options that theyve been offering for quite some time now.

The Rochdale based provider has spent the past few years building up their fully resilient 10GB Core network, which now has over 207 Points of Presence (PoPs) delivering services to more than 500 Telephone Exchanges across the United Kingdom.

Initially Zen used its new infrastructure to launch a range of more flexible and affordable Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC), Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) and other services to their customers and resellers. But the ISP now has an ambition to take on some of the bigger players (e.g. TalkTalk Wholesale, Vodafone, BTWholesale etc.) and as such theyve decided to go one better by offering a full wholesale solution.

Zen Wholesale Statement

Following on from the recent build out of our network to nearly 500 local telephone exchanges, we are creating an Industry leading Wholesale platform, offering highly competitve Layer 2 DSL (Copper and Fibre, On and Off-Net) and EAD connectivity to UK ISPs and CPs.

We offer multiple Interconnect locations in the North and South of the UK https://www.zen.co.uk/about-us/our-network and provide access to a highly skilled, dedicated team to assist with migration planning and implementation.

Officially speaking theres not a lot of detail to be found about this yet, instead its only just slipping out through the cracks. But apparently Zen is already supplying at least one reasonably well known ISP and obviously theyll be looking to add a few more. Zen has a better reputation than many of the key wholesale suppliers in this game and so that may work to their advantage.

Incidentally Zen has today announced the securing of two new regulatory accreditations, the Cyber Essentials Plus certification and IASME Gold standard accreditation.

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Creative, a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for PC users, today announced the new NOMAD Jukebox Zen portable audio player with 60GB twice the storage capacity of the new Apple iPod 30GB model yet priced at $100 less. With the amazing capacity to store 16,000 songs, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB fits easily in a pocket and can carry a huge library of music anywhere with generous disk space remaining for data storage. The NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB will be available in May for only US$399.99.

Since we launched the original NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 20GB last December, it has rapidly grown in popularity and demand, said Sim Wong Hoo, founder and CEO of Creative. In fact, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen was the number one selling hard drive MP3 player in U.S. retail for the month of March, outselling all other competitors hard drive based players, according to NPD data1. Weve heard from our users that they would love to see a huge capacity NOMAD Jukebox Zen to take their entire music library and their digital files wherever they go. And of course they demanded a great price. With the NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB weve delivered a breakthrough capacity in a portable player. In addition to the capacity, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen contains the rich feature set that has set the industry standard for performance, including playlist creation away from the PC, AudioSync to move your music between PCs, multiple buttons for easy navigation, incredible battery life of 14 hours, and industry leading audio quality. These features set the NOMAD Jukebox Zen apart and our competitors are just now trying to imitate them. Its a huge win for MP3 music lovers that Creative is able to provide a NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB for $100 less than the Apple iPod 30GB model.

The huge storage capacity of the NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB enables users to store large uncompressed audio recordings in WAV format without loss of audio quality. Then they can transfer the files to virtually any desktop or notebook PC using the NOMAD Jukebox Zens ultra-fast USB 2.0 connectivity.

The new NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB boasts industry-leading audio quality at 98dB SNR, plus 14 hours of battery life, compared to the Apple iPods eight hours. Additional differentiating features of the NOMAD Jukebox Zen include the intuitive Scroller, for fast, easy movement through an entire music collection of MP3, WMA or WAV files. Creatives unique Find function allows users to locate any of thousands of songs quickly and easily using alphabetical inputjust press the Scroller on the first letter of a favorite artist, song or genre to quickly jump through the alphabetical listings to a desired selection in just seconds. The NOMAD Jukebox Zens AudioSync feature even enables consumers to move and synchronize their music between multiple desktop and notebook PCs. The bundled Creative File Manager program enables the NOMAD Jukebox Zen to be easily used as a high-speed external portable hard drive.

The NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB features a cool-looking anodized aluminum case. The player comes bundled with a stylish carrying case with belt loop, which is great for rugged usage on the road. Creatives popular and comfortable stereo backphones are also included. For use on the go, a built-in, rechargeable lithium-ion battery powers the NOMAD Jukebox Zen, giving users up to 14 hours of mobile music playback. An optional FM Wired Remote is also available for the NOMAD Jukebox Zen, which features an FM tuner, built-in microphone, playback controls and a cool, blue backlit LCD.

The NOMAD Jukebox Zen incorporates Creatives proprietary and powerful EAX audio technologies to offer a wide range of music customization and enhancement tools. For noisy listening environments such as a plane or car, Smart Volume Management (SVM) intelligently controls the dynamic range of a song for a superior listening experience, so that the quieter portions of a track are not missed. For late night listening, SVM lowers the very loud portions of a song so that sudden volume increases are not disturbing. In addition, users can enable the SVM Match Volume feature to keep the playback volume of all the tracks on a playlist at the same level regardless of the volume level in which they were encoded; users do not have to reach for the volume control between songs. EAX technology also boasts Advanced EQ, Time-Scaling, Environmental Effects, and 3D Spatialization features.

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