I would have though that games like Mario and Zelda are more mainstream than most of the core Sony titles. In fact I'd think Sony titles are the nerdiest of the 3 consoles. Mario/Zelda and Halo/Gears are way more mainstream than games like Uncharted/GOW/Infamous/Killzone/Ico.

And Portal 2 should run fine if you bump down the settings a little.

These are the minimum settings, and to make sense of it, down near the bottom of the page there's a window which lets you compare your own specs - but you'll have to enter them manually.

You can check most of your specs my going Start>Accessories>Run and the  entering dxdiag and hitting enter. It'll bring up a window with your RAM and Processor listed. To check your graphics card, Start>Right click My computer>Manage. Hit Device Manager on the sidebar and then go into the "Display Adapters" drop down menu. Your card should be the one with a few numbers and letters through togther randomly with something like "Geforce" at the front.

They have Portal 2 listed as 3/10 on the scale, I don't have a gaming PC and I managed to get a 7/10, so you should be fine.

EDIT: If you had Portal 1 and it ran fine, you're all good. If you haven't played portal 1, there may or may not be a demo on Steam which you could download to see how it runs/looks yourself.

EDIT2: And Portal 2 is amazing. It blew away all of my expectations and surpassed portal 1 by lightyears. It really felt like a full proper experience with a fully fledged story. And Coop, it's just so much damn fun. I'm only like halfway through that, but it's just so bloody fun. I'ts like the most fun I've ever had in an online multiplayer game. Just make sure you do it with like a close friend and use voice chat. I can't imagine how annoying it would get trying to use the ping tool with some random idiot. Also, play with someone that's around your skill level. Having someone who is bossing you through the levels would suck all the fun out of it, as would having someone who dies at every corner. soo yah.

EDIT3: Yeah there's a demo for Portal

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Is the demo free, Riley?

I finished Portal 2's single player at my friend's house in under 6 hours. Great campaign. Still suffers from Portal 1's issue. Length. Some of the puzzles are rather hard but it's still too short.

In other news, Social Club details for L.A. Noire have been released.

http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/socialclub

You get a free suit after linking your SC account, it improves your accuracy with a shotgun or machine gun.

And the map...

Looks huge.

And an extremely positive preview: http://www.msxbox-world.com/xbox360/fea … Sucks.html

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Gaming PCs tend to have more of a focus on the graphics card, since most games nowadays rely heavily on the gfx unit to construct the 3D, particle effects, shaders and physics. If you look at some of the lower end gaming PCs, you'll notice they have fairly average processors since not a lot of games need a CPU's grunt to run smoothly.

Strange, I just downloaded Steam so I could get a demo for Portal, but whenever I try to open it, it says "Steam is already running. You may only run one copy of Steam at a time." I went into task manager to check that it wasn't open, and it wasn't.

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I only have it on my computer. And when I mean I try to open it, I don't mean log in, I mean open the actual program, like, double clicking on the icon on my desktop.

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I encounter it all the time, try going into the hidden icons bar and closing steam if it's there. Otherwise a restart would be fine.

I can't play the demo because I do not have a Nvidia graphics card.

Portal 2's giving me a headache. Thank God for online walkthroughs.