SpaceShipOne's second ride may have been a little wild, but its builder and crew say it was not unexpected. Read the full story.

SpaceShipOne successfully made the first of two qualifying runs for the X-Prize yesterday. Read the full story.

The guys at Red vs. Blue got to test drive Halo 2's multiplayer game. They liked it. A lot. Read the full story.

A review of the sequel to the mega-hit, The Sims. Read the full story.

UK-based Virgin is licensing SpaceShipOne's technology with the intent of create a new suborbital flight business named "Virgin Galactic". The name of their first ship? VSS Enterprise. Read the full story.

The gallery's September newsletter includes two beautiful paintings by Bryan Larsen entitled "Self Absolution Of The Titan" (which Ayn Rand fans should immediately recognize and enjoy) and "Winter Evening", which is a warm, comfortable painting of a woman reclining by the fireplace, reading a book, while snow falls on a cityscape behind her. Read the full story.

Why aren't "mature" games more, well, mature? Read the full story.

My gaming group is contemplating our first new Greyhawk campaign in about two and a half years. It's going to be a first-level campaign, set in our homegrown city of Obsidian Bay, and I'm going to be the primary DM. The game is still in its planning stages, but I've already identified a few themes.

A review of Larry Niven's new novel, Ringworld's Children, which is set a huge, inhabited ring 600 million miles in circumference. Read the full story.

A new e-mail is circulating the net claiming that the Bush administration is quietly attempting to bring back the draft, with an eye towards springing it on the country in Spring 2005, after the elections are over. In truth, while almost all of the elements in the e-mail are true -- there are draft bills before the Legislature, the Selective Service has been overhauling it's operations -- the spin the e-mail gives them is dubious at best.