The issue of Game Informer blowing the lid off Valve's Portal 2 is now in people's hands, and those people are scouring it for details. Most important of which is confirmation the game is going to be available on Mac.

To: Luke
From: Owen

Out for a jog on the Willamette today I was passed by a kid, riding no-hands on a BMX bike - and doing Sudoku. If that's not multitasking, I don't know what is.

I'm off in about 10 days. I'll be in here next weekend though. Here's some highlights of this one:

Billboard for Southern Polytechnic State University of Marietta, Ga., as seen by reader Ant just outside that city. The school, however, is not one of the top 50 game design programs recently ranked by the Princeton Review.

Yes, yes, simmer down, I know you were all dying for another installment of konsole karaoke. Happily, the ESRB issued another of its fabulous spoiler alerts, letting us know we'll be wailing along with one-hit wonders sometime soon.

This is Final Fantasy XIII's week, as the game arrives in North America on PS3 and Xbox 360. Other releases of note: Assassin's Creed II, DRM and all, on the PC, BlazBlue on PSP, and the BioShock 2 DLC.

Let's not forget Mega Man 10 on the PS3, Yakuza 3 getting its North American and Supreme Commander 2 on Xbox 360. This week's count: Seven for PC, five for PS3 and 360, Four for DS and Wii, one for PSP,

Each week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What's better? A list of those. Here's a roundup of the rundowns out there.

The game of baseball was brought to video game consoles long ago. The total experience - the Pastime - represents the next frontier of simulation, for a public delighted by every stat and detail, no matter how small.

If MLB 2K9 had been an actual ballplayer, last year's performance would have sent it to the minors, if not the waiver wire. After a soul-searching offseason, 2K Sports decided to focus on the fundamentals for MLB 2K10.

It's there, and you know how to use it. It's an exploit or a glitch or some imbalance in the AI. Morally, it's wrong. But what if everyone else is doing it? Or just the potential for them doing it?

Some recent weekend screengrabs of Sonic and Mario engaged in vice and loansharking supply fodder for the latest edition of Kotaku's 'Shop Contest.