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Prince of Persia, un des jeux vidéo les plus culte
qui soit, va bénéficier d’une adaptation en bande dessinée.
Jusque-là rien de bien folichon. Mais cette adapt est signée Jordan
Mechner, le créateur du jeu himself. Ça devient de suite plus
sérieux.
Aidé par A.B. Sina, LeUyen Pham et Alex Puvilland pour
la partie graphique, Jordan Mechner est au travail sur cette adaptation BD du
destin des deux princes, à venir aux USA chez 01 : First Second. Une bande-annonce de
l’aventure de 208 pages est disponible sur le site de l’éditeur. Bien
qu’aucune date officielle ne soit encore annoncée, les augures marketing
pencheraient pour une sortie en même temps que le prochain jeu de la franchise,
annoncé pour la fin de l’année sur PC et consoles. L’aspect artistique
du jeu devrait d’ailleurs être plus que jamais mis en avant avec des graphismes
au plus près des
artworks. Ne manque plus qu’une adapt ciné, et – ça
tombe bien –, il y en a une de prévue pour l’été
prochain !
Des trois affiches promotionnelles, c’est l’adaptation en
long-métrage du jeu vidéo Max Payne qui rafle le prix de
la classe intégrale. Son petit côté Bansky n’y est sans doute pas étranger.
Réalisé par John Moore, le film est prévu pour
l’automne prochain aux USA.
Niveau bon goût, ça se gatte avec l’affiche teaser de Red
Sonja, de Robert Rodriguez, issu de la BD américaine de
Roy Thomas et Barry Smith. Rose McGowan,
l’ex de Marilyn Manson, jouera l’héroïne à la chevelure de feu,
dont le personnage a été utilisé dans les BD Conan le
barbare. Une première adaptation pour le ciné a d’ailleurs vue
le jour en 1985 avec Arnold Schwarzenegger dans le rôle de son pote Kalidor.
Quant au Punisher, l’affiche de le visuel du film sorti en 2004
demeure super convenu pour un héros recordman du nombre de tués par morts
violentes. Un extrait est à
découvrir en ligne, âmes sensibles s’abstenir !
Mercredi, le parlement a définitivement adopté le service minimum dans les
écoles maternelles et primaires. Dorénavant, les communes devront organiser
l’accueil des élèves d’enseignants grévistes. Les élus de
gauche ont majoritairement voté contre la loi, jugeant qu’elle portait atteinte au
droit de grève, les rendant “invisibles” (Nicolas sarkozy avait en effet
ajouté un peu d’huile sur le feu en déclarant : “Désormais,
quand il y a une grève, personne ne s’en aperçoit”).
À noter également que ce projet est étendu en cas d’absence d’un
professeur pour pallier sans doute à la diminution importante des postes de
remplaçant.
Sinon, ça n’a rien à voir, mais Boulet fête le 4ème anniversaire
de son indispensable blog
(d’où mon personnage roux dans cette image). Bravo à lui et bon anniversaire
!
Universal Music Group parent company Vivendi released its Q2 results today. (PDF of earnings release)
First half evenues of €2,044 million were 4.9% improvement at constant currency
and a 2.4% decline in actual currency. Digital revenues were up 33%, the same year-over-year
improvement achieved in Q1. The company claimed growth in music publishing, merchandising and
license income but offered no supporting numbers.
Q2 revenues were €1,011 million, a 3% gain at constant currency and a 5.3%
decline in actual currency.
Not great but not bad all things considered. Revenue is only part of the story. Improved digital
margins may be helping the overall but we weren't given any information. Unlike most Vivendi
earnings releases, this one was void of anything but gross revenue numbers. No EBITA or operating
profit numbers were given for any of its divisions.
The cost of mobile data in Australia is all over the place – some carriers sell it cheap,
others sell it at sky high prices, and effectively the same data transfers but...
French police say camouflaged paparazzi who got on to the grounds of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's
chateau in southern France fought with the Hollywood couple's guards.
Vivendi Games has reported that its revenues for the first half of 2008 totaled €444
million, compared to €500 million during the same period last year.
The company attributed the fall in revenues to the strong showing of Blizzard’s second
World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade, during the first half of 2007, and noted that
all business segments had been impacted by unfavorable currency exchange movements.
If you’re a fan of power ballads, then you can finally have an MP3 player Any Way You
Want It. That’s provided you welcome Journey’s decked-out portable
player with Open Arms....
Scripps' (NYSE: SSP) big comparison servicesShopzilla and
uSwitch continued on a decent turnaround path
this quarter. On the company's conference call, management said that for the year they expect
$8-$10 million in profit for the two services. CFO Joseph NeCastro warned, however, that
Shopzilla's sponsored links arrangement with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) expires on October 31st: "We are in active discussions with them right
now, but depending on where we end up, we could see some impact at the beginning in the fourth
quarter." Management played it pretty coy on what they were getting at, though when pressed on
the probability of working out an arrangement, NeCastro just said: "We have deal with Google if
we want it."
-- Housing Economy: There's been talk that the Scripps cable networks (HGTV in
particular) could be particularly exposed to the weak housing economy. Here's their spin on that:
"Our endemics for HGTV, which leads to the question you asked about the housing slump, have
actually been fairly very strong, particularly at the big box endemics. And when you think about
it, HGTV the real substance of HGTV is about improving the experience of living within
the home you have and so to some extent the housing dilemma has drawn A) more audience
to HGTV and B) more advertiser interest in this specific category related to home improvement."
-- For Sale?: In response to a question, CEO Kenneth Lowe insisted that Scripps
Networks was not for sale: "...let me repeat what I have been saying publicly at recent forums,
whether it is Bloomberg or CNBC or recently out on the road show, we did not execute this
spin off for purpose of selling the cable networks interactive businesses; they not for
sale. If you'll excuse the analogy, it's some what flattering to have a house that
everybody wants to buy, before you've even put a sales sign in the front yard. There no for sales
sign. That does not prevent rumors that does it not prevent any window and there is
nothing we can do about that.
The economics of social media are continuing to heat up as more and more value and buzz are
created in new and growing market categories. This 199-page report, filled with charts and data,
examines the categories, number and size of investment into social media and the resulting value
created from 2007 through 2008.Visit the ContentNext
Reports page.
Owners of the first generation iPhone who upgraded to the new iPhone 3G may be left with the
original iPhone just sitting in a drawer. You could give the iPhone to a friend or family member
if you wanted, however if you want to actually get some cash for i...
Voici les Screenshots qu'ont rendu public aujourd'hui les développeurs d'Installer App et
qui montrent la version 4 de l'application. Cet opus fonctionnera avec...
Intel is ready to charge once more unto the breach of system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices, this time
with a new line of embedded processors based on the same instruction set used in all its desktop
and mobile products....
Peter writes in -Matt Hallock has a how to
for building a lo-fi fisheye camera lens for around $10 using supplies found at your local
hardware store. Fisheye lenses are crazy cost prohibitive for most of us, but this method gets
you 90 percent of the effect, plus a little Holga-esque unpredictability to boot!
This mod shows you how to add 3 cymbals to your current Rock Band setup. Now if only you could
hook up your current drum kit to the game instead of having to work around the plastic set you
get.
Dear EarthTalk: I was intrigued to hear that there were a number of ways one could modify or
construct a roof on a house or office facility that would provide great environmental benefit.
Can you enlighten? -- Bill Teague, Menlo Park, CA
Windows/Mac/Linux: At the very least, the free, just-released Zimbra Desktop client gives
non-paying Yahoo Mail users IMAP-style offline access to their messages. More than that, though,
Zimbra adds a few features to Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, or any other POP/IMAP account that could be
pretty useful—at least at some point down the road. Message tagging and nested conversation
arrows are pretty nice features for any services that don't already have them, but they don't
sync back, or work with Gmail's labels. There's also a bare-bones word processor/spreadsheet, a
(non-syncing) calendar, and more search options, including attachment filtering. Overall, though,
the real benefit is Zimbra's ability to synchronize your outbox and mail folders before you go
offline. Zimbra Desktop is a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems.
The new head of the US Air Force - replacing an officer who was fired at least in part for
dragging his feet on unmanned air operations - has hinted that the service may relax its rule
that drone aircraft must be flown by fully qualified military pilots....
Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing
to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site. Italian
prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a two-year old case against the Google employees
over a video uploaded to the search giant's Italian site, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Prosecutors are expected to
charge the execs for defamation and violation of privacy after they failed to control the content
of the site.
Google spokesperson Stefano Hesse said that the company has been cooperating with the authorities
and had removed the video "within hours" of having been told of its presence on the site. The
191-second video shows four youths taunting their autistic classmate. He noted that under EU
rules, and Italian law, the company isn't required to monitor third party content on its sites,
but takes down any offensive material when it is notified.
The target of the investigation includes Google's legal representative and chairman of its
Italian unit at the time; another Google Italy board member who has since left; its head of
privacy policies in Europe; and its former head of Google Video for Europe. Note that the Italian
authorities are going after these particular persons because they had "authority" over the
operations involved.
Google is facing a number of lawsuits across Europe over uploaded videos. In April, French TV network TF1 sued YouTube, claiming
intellectual property infringement. Two months later, Spain's Telecinco sued the site over the same issue.
YouTube has agreed in court to remove videos requested by Telecinco.
Earlier today Corvida set a
difficult challenge for RWW readers, based on a new service called 12Seconds.tv. The challenge is to say "ReadWriteWeb" 5 times really
fast in 12 seconds or less. Now, it's well known that the name 'ReadWriteWeb' is a tongue twister
- even I have trouble pronouncing it at times, and I created the name! Check out some of the
entrants so far, very funny...
Corvida herself was one of the first to give it a try:
MacTyler almost gets there, so close! At the end he slaps himself in the face (that's what the
screenshot above is). This was his second attempt, his first is here.
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Prince of Persia, un des jeux vidéo les plus culte
qui soit, va bénéficier d’une adaptation en bande dessinée.
Jusque-là rien de bien folichon. Mais cette adapt est signée Jordan
Mechner, le créateur du jeu himself. Ça devient de suite plus
sérieux.
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Earlier today Corvida set