Mario with a portal gun, it gives what?

When a plumber meets a gun to spatio-temporal faults, that's wrong!

Is not yet Friday but it is already anticipated activities that can engage...

We present to you the mari0game, a great mix of the famous Portal and of Super Mario Bross. It is in this crazy idea that mario has now a portal gun. The concept for the least original, Kouchner's a us. Note that the game in question does step out but we did we had never spoken. Its development is constant, it is never too late.

Mari0 which has the merit of being open source, cross-platform (Windows, Linux and OS X) but also free of charge, including the infatuation is such that it has led to more than 1 million downloads, angry birds have only good to keep! Its success is phenomenal, to the point that many players and developers contribute to the progress of the game. Map pack, mods, texture pack and features all kinds... mari0 is extremely complete.

The gameplay, very faithful to mario first name that will delight many fans. The portal gun, essential element of this version, can experience some difficulty or reluctance to use it at the beginning. Quickly, we realize that this Nintendo-Valve marriage produced a game in which the possibilities are quasi-infinis. Through some levels, some passages are very fun to play again. Corners in which you would have never imagined access, are now. In short, it is to test.

The excellent news is that an online multiplayer mode, is under development. Two characters in the field, such as Portal 2, adventure could book of beautiful surprises.

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Sony Ericsson less, it gives what?

After a decade of joint venture, Sony bought the shares in Ericsson. The operation should be completed mid-2012. What strategy Sony choose later?

Swedish telecoms giant and the Japanese electronics giant merged in 2001 to out first "Walkman-phones" of the market. Then the Cybershot, quickly called the "photo-phones" which boosted the number of pixels of the sensor always above to combine these two devices in one. But the mark really found its audience, with only 2% of market share.

After to be rid of Symbian OS, Sony Ericsson is then launched the Android adventure with the Xperia range, which we know the setbacks and problems follow-up, causing dissatisfaction with its customers. To continue in this direction, we have learned recently that the eco-system of Xperia products will focus on the experience of play (with the Xperia Play), a little like Apple that focused on music and video.

Even if the planning of developments are full of new products or features, in the end, Sony Corp. will buy back the shares in Ericsson and will therefore be the only master on board in exchange for one billion euros, as announced it a few months ago. Term, the motives of the mark will be only hit of the Sony logo, to ensure the business strategy "four screens" of the mark.

The Japanese giant of the Entertainment believes that the Xperia range worked well, representing 19% of the mobile sold in India and 12% of Androphones around the world. For them, with the absorption of Ericsson, the direction taken is good. Remains to see if Sony can really compete with mobile gaming eco-systems already in place with its "Playstation phone" under Android? According the Anshul Gupta of Gartner, analyst will play the year next to a strategic perspective for Sony in the smartphone market...

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Adobe gives up Flash for mobiles!

A wave of panic he blows at Adobe? The publisher that it refocuses its efforts on the applications and for mobile HTML5, leaving the Flash ...

A first information coming straight from Adobe announced an internal restructuring plan with a wave of departures for 750 full-time positions. This plan also indicated that the company will continue developing its Creative software suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)., Major pillar of society, and will offer better support for HTML5 in Dreamweaver. In addition, Adobe announced two new applications (Edge and PhoneGap), acquired by the acquisition of the company Nitobe, already available in beta version in the colors from Adobe. All this in order to realign its markets and set up two units, one dedicated to the media and the other digital marketing.


The abandonment of mobile Flash is a necessity "

But the most interesting information is probably the announcement of a detachment of mobile Flash. Sources close to the publisher of San Jose, the abandonment of Flash mobile is a need to focus on improving the porting of applications from Adobe AIR platforms to online gaming. To reassure trading partners (and scholarship), Adobe announced that the companies with the source code for Flash Mobile will continue to develop and implement their own solutions. Knowing that Adobe will also continue to support Android system (as well as RIM BlackBerry PlayBook for the tablet) to provide bug fixes or critical updates security if necessary.

The new mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), and the new mobile operating systems, should not receive the benefit of the Flash application development with Adobe AIR Native and HTML5. The reasons for this decision are quite fuzzy, as it is remembered that Adobe had come into conflict with Apple that would not support the Flash iOS moving its products, or Microsoft, which had also turned back. We can therefore analyze it as an admission of failure on the part of Adobe, which makes it clearly so that the performance of Flash on mobile devices are criticized and the fragmentation of the park Android condemns most improvements and portages.

Even so, HTML5 is still far from being standardized Web as may be the Flash for multimedia applications or sites enriched. But if the terminals are all moving towards a system made of native applications and Web Apps in HTML5, there is no doubt that developers will follow the trend to quickly adapt their sites and services to market. Android developers who are already starting to turn to alternative solutions ...

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