Valve offers Source Filmmaker: soon the flood of half-life, Portal and other fan-movies

Games editor PC Valve begins to offer its Source Filmmaker tool free...

Valve has just launched the Source Filmmaker in beta, also known as the acronym SFM. In fact, it is the tool used by Valve to the realization of video within the Source Engine, including catches to profit by the Publisher for the realization of a large number of cinematics and trailers. To participate in this beta program and be able to mumuse with Source Filmmaker, simply visit the official website of this tool with a computer where Steam is installed. "Initially, we must limit the number of beta testers, but soon, we will give access to Source Filmmaker to all, free of charge" says Valve.

Indeed, in the limitations, should know that initially Source Filmmaker will work with Team Fortress 2. Which means that it will take to be a little patient to easily make his own fan-movie based on Half Life 2. Valve also indicates that developers accustomed to the Mods of Source Engine should quickly be able to evolve SFM at their convenience to create new things and work on new universe. It promises a few fun artistic delusions!

The minimum to take advantage of Source Filmmaker configuration is as follows:

OS: Windows 7 / Vista (Windows 7 64 bit suggested) Processor: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher) Memory: 2 GB (4 GB suggested) Hard Disk Space: At least 15 GB of SpaceVideo: NVIDIA GeForce 200 series card or better, or AMD Radeon 3000 series or better (NVIDIA GeForce 400 series or AMD Radeon 5000 series preferred) Monitor: 1366 x 768 (1920 x 1080 suggested) Audio: DirectX 9.0 c compatibleUSB headset with mic (suggested)

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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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New portal in Free TV

Free TV Portal allows the day to consult, program and easily save their favorite programs.

Free developed online last week its new portal "Free television" dedicated to his service of TV by ADSL and for its subscribers. They will be able, by registering free of charge and by entering username and password Free, easy access to a customizable programs (EPG) guide, actus on the universe of the television and a search engine for TV programs.

A click on a show, a series or a film of the grid, additional information will appear - and a square of pub - and a "Save" button enables to program the registration of the said program. An alert system allows to miss any of his favorite programs and the "Smart Engine" learns even to detect the preferences of users with their tastes and habits to save programs independently.

The system is not yet perfect and suffers from a few bugs and missing options (choice of the channel to use, ADSLou TNT, setting the number of minutes before and after registration, for example) but these defects should be corrected quickly. The portal is accessible at the following address television.portail.free.fr and a free application Android and iPhone should arrive in the coming days.

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