for those that do not know what the

The Portalarium Player is:

What is it?

What does it do?

The Portalarium Player operates as a game downloader and launcher that runs directly in the web-browser, providing seamless application installation and patching, much like Valve's Steam. It is very small, weighing in at less than 500KB, and only takes a minute or two to install. It is immediately available for the Windows operating system (Windows 7, Vista, and XP), with the Mac version available by Q2-2010.

The benefit of this plugin to fellow developers and studios is this: You are no longer limited to using Flash to develop your browser-based games or apps. You are now free to use virtually any game development system, graphics engine, etc., to create your web-browser games — whether Unreal, Unity, Gamebryo, Torque, or even your own proprietary code.

Great! How can I use it?

Your Engine in any Browser!

The Portalarium Player supports all major browsers, including Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7, and 8), Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. The Portalarium Player serves as the interface that allows your game to operate outside of a social network like Facebook or MySpace, while visually appearing to the consumer like it is fully and seemlessly running within the network's i-frame.

And the best part is: Portalarium is giving it away to the development community for free as part of our commitment to the OpenPlay movement.  Please contact us for details.

http://www.portalarium.com/portalarium-player/201.html

Since the Torque engine already run's on the Playstation 3 this bode's well for these game's:

Lord british explain's why He's going in this direction.

since the playstation 3 already has

PoxNora:

more of these type's of game's may be heading our way.

I'd have to check out more to see if I'd be interested

did you watch both video's?

it's one of those thing's that is pretty big thing going on.

example:

There are more player's playing Farm Town than there are in the total # of  Twitter account's!

poxnora looks like something I'd play so if they do have more games like that and less like farmville I"d be all for it

I think that's what richard "lord british" garriott was talking about

the father of Ultma

an to his claim one of 14 

Garriott became the ninth inductee into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame in 2006.

Ultima Online was "The first MMORPG to reach the 100,000 subscriber base, far exceeding that of any game that went before it". Since then, it has added seven expansion packs and dozens of free content updates.

So I respect the man's experience of 31 year's in the industry. He even stated that it's something that he see's will net big return's and He is not alone.

PoxNora is Sony's first game and I think it will not be the last. if Sony does indeed get The Portalarium Player for the PS3 indi developer will be in a very good position to make game's for the PS3, with lower cost's, which is a very good thing.

this is going to help indie developer's