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.

For several years now, Japanese developers have realized that there are bigger markets outside Japan — namely, the U.S. and Europe. But is that limiting?

In his new "Itagaki's Thought" column, former Ninja Gaiden designer and currently Valhalla Game Studios developer Tomonobu Itagaki is looking at the bigger picture.

Lucasarts made a special edition of Monkey Island, and it went down real well. Know what that means? Yeah, that Lucasarts will be releasing a special edition of Monkey Island 2.

id software today announced a date, time and place for QuakeCon, its annual celebration of all things Quake. And Doom. And anything else id has ever done, or is doing in the future.

It'll run August 12 to August 15, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Entry will be free, and you can bet there'll be some id-related announcements to be had, along with the chance to meet some developers and take part in a massive LAN party.

These days, multiplatform games tend to be dominated by console gamers. Modern Warfare 2, for example, has a relatively tiny PC-playing community. Not so for Battlefield Bad Company 2!

DICE associate producer Barrie Tingle has revealed that at the moment, during the week of the game's retail release, more people are playing the PC version of the game than both the 360 and PS3 editions combined.

Joe Danger, a game about a man called Joe, who faces danger, is one of the most high profile games in this year's Independent Games Festival awards. And it's coming to the PlayStation 3.

To tease the upcoming Tron: Legacy, Disney has been releasing a series of images from the new, upcoming Tron: Legacy trailer. That's right, Disney is teasing a trailer.

So far there have been shots of Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund), son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), going into the old Flynn's Arcade.

It's not until you look at these charts that you realise that PC has been having a big couple of months.

Where normally these things are full of old or discounted titles, there are some big games here from some big publishers, some of them PC versions of multiplatform titles, others PC exclusives set to dominate the charts for months to come.

The obsessives over at Digital Foundry, who do this kind of thing for a living, have compared the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Final Fantasy XIII in agonising detail. The results? Not so good for 360 owners.

Sony has patented a new form of trial or demo for video games that, rather than presenting us with a small piece of a title, gives us the whole thing, then takes bits away as time goes on.