In just under four hours, at 1PM PST (GMT-8), the keynote address at the first ever Minecon will commence and Notch will officially release Minecraft 1.0, the first out-of-beta iteration. If you want to watch the show live, IGN has it covered: http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212578p1.html Official site: http://minecon.mojang.com/ IMPORTANT: Do not update to 1.0 immediately if you want to play on any Empire Minecraft servers. Check out this thread for more information on how to play 1.0 and enjoy EMC: http://empireminecraft.com/threads/pre-releases-new-releases-and-emc.308/