I'm pretty sure that I've gone on record regarding the great format war that rages on between the HD-DVD and Bluray consortiums. But while I was in Best Buy on Friday afternoon, in the consuming mood, perusing the new(ish) releases of DVDs, I found myself with a bit of a conundrum... In my left hand I held the $20 DVD copy of Children of Men, and in my right the $35 HD-DVD, which contains the mere standard definition version on the opposite side of the disc. After a few minutes of thought and a quick run-through of Sweet Child O' Mine on the 360 display of Guitar Hero II, I decided to go with the HD version. I figured that sooner or later I would buy an HD movie player, and the HD-DVD group's decision to throw in a "legacy" version (for a sub-set) of their movies on the disc was apparently my tipping point; and I have to imagine it is (and will be) for a lot of other people as well. I've just about finished my second time through God of War II. I want to say that the first time took somewhere between 12-15 hours, and it looks like I'll be done with this second lap in just under 6 hours. After that I'll probably move on to Titan mode... But I should also probably find a newer game to test out my new PC. I reinstalled Sin Episodes through Steam, but that didn't run in 64-bit Vista. I didn't put any time whatsoever into trying to get it to work, so hopefully there's an easy fix. Although I'm not holding my breath since Ritual was sold a few months back to that "casual" *shudder* game publisher. I installed Supreme Commander, but after about 15 minutes I quit playing. I couldn't really get into it, and my first impression was not so good. This may sound pretty weak, but the mouse just jerks the screen around way too much, and I couldn't seem to find a sensitivity setting in the options. It's also kind of annoying that the interface takes up nearly 50% of the screen, making it all but impossible to see anything if you haven't zoomed well out of the action. Which is particularly confusing, given all of Chris Taylor's "face-in-a-sandbox" talk we heard in the months leading up to SupCom's release. I'm going to stick with it, but so far I'm glad that it came as a free gift with my motherboard. I also installed the demo for Command & Conquer 3, and that game looks amazing! It runs incredibly smooth even at 1280x1024 with maxed out quality settings. The original C&C is still one of my favorite games of all time, so this newest addition to the franchise may be the next PC game that I play. I'm a sucker for FMV. I wish they would bring it back...