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Unigine Finally Rushes Out The "Oil Rush"The Unigine Corp. is finally releasing their debut game Oil Rush today. The game is build around their own in-house Unigine game engine, featuring latest OpenGL 4 eye-candy graphic effects with decent performance. In the game you will command your troops between different platforms to capture or defend them. The platforms are also your unit construction sites. You will have different kinds of boats and airplanes, but no ground forces, because the hole planet is flooded with water. Oil Rush features a 16 mission campaign as well as a multiplayer mode. The game can be bought at Desura, Ubuntu Software Center, Unigine Store and in some countries also in a retail DVD box for 20 petro dollars. fullscreen: 'f', close: 'ENTER' or 'ESC'
Desurium Drops Out Of DesuraThe Desura game management and shopping client got a little open brother now. The open brother is called Desurium and it comes with a GPLv3 license. The project will be kept in sync with the official Desura client and patches will be up- and down-streamed. ![]()
AMD Gives You Back Some Money For Bulldozer CoresAMD has running a cashback promotion in some european states. If you bought an AMD FX processor in Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden or the UK from one of the partnered e-tailers, you can get back between 10€ and 20€, depending on the number of cores of your processor.
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Humble Introversion Bundle Ends SOONThe Humble Introversion Bundle will end in about 20 hours. If you are interested in Uplink, darwinia, DEFCON or Multiwinia, you should grab it now. For a bonus price, you will also get Aquaria from Bit Blot and Crayon Physics Deluxe from Kloonigames. Mars Science Laboratory Ready For Launch TodayAfter years of hard engineering work, the new Mars Science Laboratory is ready to launch today on the top of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral. The Lift Off is scheduled for 15:02 UTC on 26th November and will be covered live by NASA TV. The launch preparations can be also followed in the launch blog. ![]() Photo: NASA
DreamHack Winter 2011 - Finals WeekendThe world largest LAN party is ongoing this week in Jönköping, Sweden. During DreamHack Winter 2011 there are a bunch of tournaments running. The first rounds were done in the past two days and today is the large Final Saturday. At 9:00 UTC the Hereos of Newerth finals will start, casted live by Honcast. The Quake Live TDM finals will be played on the main stage, but the time isn't given yet.
Soyuz TMA-22 Is Ready For Lift-OffThe Russian Soyuz spacecraft is ready for the 29th expedition to the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-22 will transport two Russian and one American astronaut and also some regular supply stuff. The Lift-Off of the Soyus rocket is planned for 4:14 UTC from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A life coverage is streamed by NASA TV. *edit* The launch was successful and the Soyuz is now in space on the way to meet the ISS in two days. The docking manoeuvre will also be life coveraged by NASA TV.
ZOTAC Nano PC Box With VIA Dual Core Processor Available NowZOTAC had added a second kind of their small PC boxes into their product program and it's available now. ![]() If you want some more power, ZOTAC also offers a ZBOX with AMD Fusion processor, but the price for it is around 210 €.
GLX-Dock 2.4The GLX-Dock team had recently released the new version 2.4 of their OpenGL accelerated desktop dock. GLX-Dock can be used on every window manager with compositing support. It includes a lot of small bug fixes, some new features and compatibility enhancements.
Installation packages are already available for various distributions.
AMD Embedded Radeon E6460 With Long Term AvailabilityAMD added the Radeon E6460 to their Embedded products program. The E6460 is a low end OpenGL 4 compatible GPU and has the GDDR5 video memory on the same package. ![]() Photo: AMD The specifications of the GPU are similar to the standard desktop Radeon low end chips.
AMD's Socket AM3+ May Get A Life ExtensionIn June AMD presented their new processor roadmap on the AMD Fusion Developers Summit 11. ![]() According to a report from 4Gamer.net, AMD had withdrawn their earlier decision and will design the Komodo processor for the socket AM3+ now. This would make the AM3+ platform much more attractive for new buyers. The Komodo processor will be similar to the Zambezi and includes only minor architecture enhancements. Both will be manufactured in the same 32 nm SOI process at GlobalFoundries and feature 4 or 5 Bulldozer modules, each with 2 x86_64 cores and a single shared FPU. Every module has a 2 MiB level 2 cache and the hole processor shares a 8 MiB level 3 cache. The dual channel DDR3 memory interface will support up to DDR3 1866 standard. ![]()
Acer Aspire One D257 With MeeGo Linux Available NowAcer announced their first Netbook with MeeGo Linux some weeks ago and it's a little available yet, at least in Europe. Some e-tailers had it in stock some days ago, but it was sold out quickly and must be pre-ordered now. It costs about 225 Euro and has a standard, up to date netbook configuration.
Stanford's Online AI-Class - Register NowThe University of Stanford has opened the enrollment for their Introduction to Artificial Intelligence online course. The class is free and open for everyone
ESA Summer Of Code 2011The ESA has copied the summer of code idea from Google and has made their own summer of code now. The student registration is open up to the 27th July, so if you are interested in programming for one of the 20 available open source organizations and receive a 4000 € bonus, you should run and quickly sign up.
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