NASA crowed this past week that they had successfully orbited the barren asteroid Eros and even more successfully landed their satellite craft upon its surface! Eros, named for the mythical god of love (a gray barren rock, named for the god of love. Scientists are sooo bitter, eh?) can now be studied, however briefly, from the surface of the rock. Best of all, aside from the billions of dollars the project cost in total the landing itself only cost taxpayers a single quarter.
In a stunning role reversal the French get to divide and conquer the Germans as UbiSoft's blitzkrieg toppled the mighty bastion of Blue Byte Software. The French, led by the irrepressible and humorous Rayman had little trouble defeating the ponderous Blue Byte whose mascot consisted of three Settlers and a pig. Meanwhile, hiding deep in a bunker popular German software manufacturer TopWare (Earth 2150, The Moon Project) quietly declared bankruptcy.
Seems the best-kept secret of 2001 was the romance between aging film star HAL 2000 and the buxom game starlet SHODAN from System Shock and its sequel. The couple has been quietly roaming the cyber-space ways, and the actual space-ways for the past few months and they've finally decided to merge data in a secret ceremony on October 10th of this year. (10-10-01 apparently has some sort of significance for the couple.) Can two evil/murderous AI's get along? Well it seems J-Lo and Puffy couldn't! So, we'll have to see!
