The end of finals is in sight.  What does this mean?  I'll be flying home and into the loving embrace of my gaming rig in less than 32 hours.  For the past four months I've been making due with my crap-tastic laptop which struggles to even run DOSBox or the original Half-Life.  God forbid I attempt to run anything less than a decade old.

And of course, there's the TF2 update incoming.  I'll be jumping on Steam the moment I get home to rack up my fair share of Demoman deaths.  Meanwhile, members of the Steam forums seem to be donning their Illuminati costumes and are attempting to deconstruct every and any tiny little detail on the TF2 blog.  I can't say I blame them; much of their crazy theorizing and speculation has paid off in the past.

While there's a chance that TF2 will distract me from singleplayer games entirely, I do still intend to get through Batman: Arkham Asylum. I've bought a 360 controller for the occasion (previously I had made due with a Logitech knock-off).  And despite the fact that I still haven't played the first game, I'm incredibly psyched about the sequel that was just announced.

On top of that I'll almost certainly be playing an unhealthy amount of Left 4 Dead 2, which I still haven't gotten a chance to try out.  I intend on playing through it entirely on singleplayer first (despite what everyone says about playing solo and the intelligence of the bots, I don't want to hop online without having a little experience with the maps).  Afterwards I'll probably run through it multiple times with friends using the splitscreen feature.

Hopefully I'll be seeing a few of you on the other end of my rocket launcher! To WAR!