Did the Empire really win the Battle of Hoth or did Darth Vader bungle the strategy so badly that he effectively snatched defeat from the jaws of victory? [Wired]

What happens when a real astronaut gets in touch with Starfleet? Something like this. [Twisted Swifter]

Last year, Gearbox released the critically acclaimed and award-winning Borderlands 2. This week, they put out the panned Aliens: Colonial Marines. So what exactly went wrong with ACM? [Kotaku]

The latest ACM rumour has Gearbox working on an 8 GB patch to fix problems with the game. I doubt the accuracy of that claim but if the game was about 7 GB in file size, the patch sounds about the right size to fix the game’s problems. [Velocity Gamer]

Just in case Aliens: Colonial Marines didn’t teach you about the dangers of pre-ordering games, indie developer 11 Bit Studios will let you get a 50% discount on their next game if you pre-order before you know what it is. So how important is $7.50 to you? [RPS]