If you haven't noticed yet, the Humble Indie Bundle 8 is still running for a little more then 1 day from now. It contains 11 indie developer games and 10 game soundtracks for about 6 $, or whatever you want to pay more.

• Little Inferno
• Awesomenauts Plus exclusive chicken skin*
• Capsized
• Thomas Was Alone
• Dear Esther Linux info*
• And all five soundtracks!
• Hotline Miami
• Proteus
• Tiny and Big in Grandpa's Leftovers
• Intrusion 2
• English Country Tune
• Oil Rush plus map pack
• And five more select soundtracks!

The NASA and the Orbital Sciences Corporation have started preparations for the second try to launch the new Antares space rocket. The lift-off is scheduled for 2100 UTC 4711-04-20. **Note** The Launch got just postponed to 2210 UTC. The launch is the first flight of the Antares rocket and will deploy a payload mass simulator in orbit.

The NASA TV live stream coverage will start about half a hour before lift-off.

Edit

The launch has been postponed to 2100 UTC 4711-04-21.

Live streaming video by Ustream

Valve launched Steam for Linux last week and the celebrated launch sale will end today. You need to hurry to grab some of the Linux games with discounts between 50% and 75%.

Planet 64Bit wishes you a Happy New Year 4711, the year of the snake!

The mass server hoster SERVER4YOU has still a special discount offer running until 15. January.
The ProServer line, equipped with an AMD Opteron 3280 2.4 GHz eight-core processor and 16 GiB DDR3 RAM, will get bonus admin features for free, which would cost regular 40 euros per month. The server monthly rent starts at 38.99€ with a 149€ setup-fee, or 48.99€ without setup-fee. Models with larger RAM and more disk space are available too.

Their bottom line of root server, the ECO Server, equipped with an AMD Athlon II Quad Core processor, has also a price cut from regular 28.99€ to 23.99€ with 149€ setup-fee or 33.99€ without setup-fee. On the down side, their low cost servers are missing a lot of useful administration features, you will need to pay extra for it or hope your server will run always fine or you don't care about a little more down time.

Customers can choose whether their server should be hosted at the European data center in Strasbourg, France, or St Louis, USA.

S2 Games has launched their global Hereos of Newerth tournament. Registration for teams with 5 to 7 players is open now and registration for the first season must be done until 17th october.
The teams will be seeded into different leagues, based on their skills to give non-pro gamers some chances too. There is also a huge prize pool of about total 330000$ to win.

At the same time, S2 Games released the latest HoN patch 2.6.22.1.

== New Content ==

- Added a new Madman Alt Avatar: Hook Madman

* Madman is back with a vengeance! Remember why you love being an insane killer with this new classicly inspired avatar for our resident serial killer.
* Releases on 10/05/2012

- Added a new Succubus Skin: Dark Succubus

* Succubus reveals her really dark side in the seductive new skin. See this she devil in her most tantalizing skin to date.
* Releases on 10/08/2012

- Added a new Taunt: Fat Lady Taunt

* Nothing tells your opponent it's over like a little opera.
* Releases on 10/10/2012

== General ==

- The Player Ladder Returns!

* See where you stand on the ladder and compare yourself to your friends!

- Mac and Linux clients have been significantly updated!

* Added in-game browser functionality
* HoNTV has been added
* In-Game Guides have been added
* Mac/Linux performance improved greatly (Linux client up to 50% faster, Mac client up to 100% faster)
* The new Updater has been added, including the Repair Tool
* A new type of installer for the Mac client is now being used
* OpenGL Renderer performance has been improved greatly
* Brought OpenGL renderer features in line with DirectX renderer
* Added support for GUI sharpening for OpenGL
* Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4

- Fixed pre-loading of announcer text, fixing the hitches when they get displayed the first time
- Sound glitches have been fixed
- Fixed memory leak with font loading
- Prevented duplicate loading of skins

Havn't grabbed it yet? Then you still have one day to purchase the sixth Humble Indie Bundle.

The Blender Foundation has released their fourth open movie. "Tears of Steel" is a 12 minute Sci-Fi movie. For the first time they used human actors and all post-processing effects and animations were made with Blender.

You can also download the movie.

AMD is not getting out of the dirt. Getting beaten down again and again, struggling to get out new performance or ultra-mobile products and continues loosing top personal.

In an after hour notice AMD has told now, that Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert, one of AMD's leading heads, is running away for a better company.

So what the fuck is up AMD?

The NASA Mars rover Curiosity will touch down on Mars in less then 13 hours from now! Live coverage of the event of the year is on on NASA TV.

Graphics: NASA

Live broadcast by Ustream

At the last quarter results, AMD was positive about the second quarter business, giving a forecast of flat or up to 6% increased revenues. But AMD punch into their investors faces again, shouting out an after hour emergency statement and send their stocks into free fall mode.

AMD's last quarter revenue dropped by about 11% sequentially as a result of a heavy miss in sales targets in Europe and China.

Final quarter results will be published in July 19th.

The first spacecraft from a private company is going to the ISS soon. The Dragon space cargo ship is ready for launch on the top of a Falcon 9 rocket and will then travel to the ISS for docking at the station. The launch is converted by NASA TV and SpaceX own live stream right now, the lift-off is sheduled for 8:56 UTC.

*edit*

Due a failure of engine 5, the start was aborted right after ignition. The on-board computer system detects an engine malfunction and instantly shuts down all engines. The next lauch window will be on 22. May.

*edit*

The second launch attempt was successful.

The Japanese JAXA is ready to launch the SHIZUKU climate observation satellite on board of a H-IIA rocket. The launch is live streamed right now.

Live broadcasting by Ustream

A Soyuz-FG rocket is going to launch at 0301 UTC today to tranport the Soyuz TMA-04M with 3 new astronauts to the ISS. *edit* The launch was successful.

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