Halo is proving to be a nice diversion; a level or two here and there and I'm pretty happy.

Gears of War for Windows has gone gold and I simply cannot find out what the system requirements are. This is a little off-putting for me, obviously. I'm half tempted to get the Bioshock demo just to try and gauge performance on my machine, but that's 2 gigs worth of demo and Bittorrent murders my bandwidth (makes City of Heroes unplayable, just about).

I thought about picking up Bioshock at some point, but a friend of mine actually got the 360 version even though his PC can handle it. Reason given? SecuROM is installed with Bioshock's demo and the purchased game (another fine Sony product). My antivirus already reports GameGuard as being a trojan, so I'm a little curious if it would do the same for SecuROM also. Similarly, I don't know if SecuROM would or could allow for the same problems SunComm's DRM caused for PC owners in terms of virii and cheating bastards.

That being said, my buddy aside (who's co-owner of a technical support service here on Maui), I haven't heard much, and at least Sony isn't Starforce, but aside from the Sims 2 and Bioshock, I don't know any games that use it, so I can't research how much of a problem it is or isn't. That being said, I just wish more people thought like Brad Wardell.

Speaking of which, I haven't played Galactic Civilizations 2 in ages. Or Guild Wars. Darn my mood based gaming.

And tomorrow City of Heroes Halloween event gets started, so I'm looking forward to trick-or-treating in Paragon City :D