Buying games from America for Macbook Pro

I have just purchased a macbook pro (still waiting its arrival) and wish to purchase a few games to kill time on long journeys. Firstly what are the implications of buying games from the US (cost, region settings, import costs if any)??? and secondly if i buy a game that doesn't have a Universal symbol will it still run on the intel based macbook pro??? i only ask because i've got a Quad G5 running on the power pc chip and wish to play games on that too?
thanks
P.S. i want my macbook pro

Games or software in general don't have regional zoning, I bought games in the US many times without any problems.
Regarding Universal Binary, you should have a look there:
http://guides.macrumors.com/UniversalBinaryGames
This is a report of games that are UB, and more importantly, wether a particular non-UB game works or not on Intel-based macs.
This is generally reliable, although I noticed that Star Wars Knights of Old Republic (KOTOR) doesn't work, and the UB patch that should have been available never came...

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