Welcome to episode 18 (audio) of the Zune Insider Podcast co-hosted by Cesar Menendez and Rob Greenlee . Most of this episode was recorded using VOIP software Gizmo Project because of a snow storm in Seattle and has less then ideal audio quality. Topics covered this week include: Zune Insider over the holidays , New podcasts added to the Zune Marketplace ( The Green Room , Xbox 360 Only Game Trailers , ManiaTV's The Chuck Norris Show podcast), Winners announced for The Great Zune T-Shirt and...

Wired has a thorough, objective review and comparison of Zune 80 GB and iPod Classic (80 gb). Check the results here . Hope everybody had a great weekend!

Our friends in the 'rama forums have been following the Top 20 Most Wanted Rankings on CNet for the past few weeks, as have our friends at 'scene . This week, Zune tops the most wanted list, beating out the Nintendo Wii. Cool. As usual, the normal caveats apply - just like the Amazon sales ranking, the CNet ranking is a good picture of how Zune is tracking - but only among the registered users on CNet.com. Overall, a good step for Zune, though.

Yesterday I spoke at the monthly gathering of the Puget Sound Handheld User's Group, about Zune. Check the writeup here. And that brings up a question - any Zuneinsider readers in Seattle interested in doing another Zune and Soup night ? Drop a comment or email me (email is after the jump, below) I also wrote up some tips/tricks on Oblivion , and glibly titled it " How to be Awesome at Oblivion " check it out over at the Gamerscore Blog (before I worked for Zune, I worked for Xbox). Hope you're having...