A fan of the 2001 GameCube game Wave Race: Blue Storm found a long-buried Easter egg in the racing game this week.

The code, posted to the NeoGAF message board by user “Raoul Duke,” unlocks a sardonic commentary track that insults the player at every move. “You don’t have an inferiority complex,” the announcer quips. “You’re just inferior.”

The code seems “pretty elaborate,” says Chris Bieniek, editor of Tips & Tricks Codebook magazine. “It’s separate from the password entry system that ..read the full article

Christopher Lloyd will reprise his role as Dr. Emmet Lathrop “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future videogame, publisher Telltale Games said Wednesday.

This will be the first time the actor has portrayed the harried inventor of time travel since Universal Studios launched Back to the Future: The Ride in 1991.

Telltale announced its intention to revive the classic 80’s films as a videogame series earlier this year. Through a licensing agreement with Universal Studios, the maker of contemporary adventure ..read the full article

Case Zero, a downloadable game for Xbox 360, gives players a few hours' worth of the zombie beatdowns that the full Dead Rising 2 game will feature in September.Image courtesy Capcom

Let’s not mince words. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is a demo that costs five bucks. It’s still worth it.

The idea of paying real money for a hands-on preview of a game might be a bitter pill for frugal gamers. But Case Zero, an exclusive prequel chapter to Capcom’s ..read the full article

Disney Interactive Studios unveiled the collector’s edition of Tron: Evolution on Monday.

The high-end package, slated to come out on December 7 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will include an exclusive Tron light cycle model crafted by Sideshow Collectibles.

The special edition retails for $130 and comes with a plastic display case for the light cycle, which has a drawer underneath for storing your game.

Tron: Evolution bridges the plot between the original Tron movie and the new flick ..read the full article

Microsoft will increase the price of a subscription to its Xbox Live online gaming service later this year, it said Monday.

Via the Major Nelson blog, the Xbox 360 maker announced that a one-year Xbox Live account will now cost $60 instead of $50 effective November 1.

The prices of one- and six-month subscriptions will also increase, as will certain subscription plans in Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

The fee increase comes as “no surprise” to Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst ..read the full article

The next expansion to the Wild West shooter Red Dead Redemption will let players gamble against each other.Image courtesy Rockstar

Rockstar will release the next downloadable expansion for its PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game Red Dead Redemption on September 21, the publisher said Friday.

The “Liars and Cheats Pack” will include multiplayer poker, liar’s dice and horse races. Players will also get a new rifle, seven new gang hideouts to attack, four new hunting grounds and new modes, scoring and ..read the full article

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Metroid: Other M is the exact kind of game Nintendo said it wasn’t making anymore.

Sometime during the last generation of game consoles, everybody decided that action games had to be big cinematic to-dos stuffed with lengthy movie sequences, Hollywood actors and epic storylines. Everybody except Nintendo, that is, who said “No thanks, we’ll just make Wii Sports forever” and made sure that its flagship ..read the full article

Wheatley guides the player through GLaDOS's murderous assembly line.

Valve released new footage from Portal 2 yesterday.

The clip (embedded below) features the debut of actor Stephen Merchant as Wheatley — a quirky A.I. that aids the player in their return to the Aperture Science complex. Wheatley was unveiled at E3 this June and was temporarily voiced by Valve animator Richard Lord.

If the video is any indication Portal 2 appears to stray much further from the Aperture Science test labs ..read the full article

In case you want to plot your own point of light and remember Noble Team’s heroic sacrifice, the Remember Reach site is up and running now.

By visiting the site, you can plot a point of light in a massive glowing monument, created in real time by a huge robot arm somewhere in San Francisco. Check out Wired.com’s video feature from last week to learn all about how this Halo viral campaign works.

Screengrab: Wired.com

Next month brings us the continuing adventures of DeathSpank.

Electronic Arts will release DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue on September 22 via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, the publisher said Monday.

DeathSpank is a Diablo-like role-playing game from Hothead Games, created by Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island). In my review of the first episode of DeathSpank, I praised the game for its smart writing and engaging gameplay.

Deathspank: Thongs of Virture will follow the titular hero’s continuing adventures as he combs the ..read the full article

Valve, creator of Left 4 Dead, has made good on its promise to produce one more expansion for its two-year-old co-operative zombie shooter.

On Friday’s episode of Gametrailers TV, Chet Faliszek of Valve revealed The Sacrifice — a new, downloadable mission starring the survivors from the original Left 4 Dead game.

As usual this expansion, will be free to PC gamers and cost Xbox Live players cash. The Sacrifice will also be available for Mac users.

The Sacrifice will be playable with both ..read the full article

A screenshot uploaded by a member of an Xbox-modding community purports to show a build of the unreleased game Halo: Reach running on the user's modified Xbox 360 console.

Halo: Reach, this year’s biggest Xbox 360 game, has been obtained by hackers and released into the wild, weeks before its official release date.

BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay currently feature torrents of the game, with hundreds of seeders and leechers downloading away. The Halo: Reach dump requires an Xbox 360 ..read the full article

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SAN FRANCISCO — A new website will let Halo fans remotely control a giant robot to build a shining light sculpture that pays tribute to a team of fallen Spartans.

Microsoft will launch the Remember Reach website Monday morning as part of a viral campaign for the highly anticipated Xbox 360 shooter Halo: Reach. When the site goes live, visitors can help construct a monument of light to honor the members of Noble Team, the main characters of ..read the full article

With all these are-they-fake, are-they-real Rock Band 3 set lists floating around, who’s to say what songs are actually in the game?

I certainly don’t know. And the people of Harmonix would never tell us before they’re darned good and ready. However, if you look very carefully at the background of this video, you might be able to catch a glimpse of one or two songs that are in the final game. Better luck next time, guys!

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will hit stores October 5, Konami said on Thursday.

The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 version of the classic series was created by Madrid, Spain developer Mercury Steam with creative input from Metal Gear Solid creator Kojima Productions. It’s something of a reboot — a fresh, slightly Western take on the story of the Belmont clan of vampire hunters.

Konami has had moderate success with the 2-D updates to Castlevania, but it has foundered when it has ..read the full article

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SOCOM 4 composer Bear McCreary isn’t just writing a pretty soundtrack for the PlayStation 3 game. He wants to heighten your gameplay experience.

In the first of our two videos about the recording of the score for Sony’s SOCOM 4, McCreary (Battlestar Galactica) told us about some of the obscure ethnic instrumentation that will be featured in the game.

Today, we get some insight from the composer as to how the music will affect the player’s moods in this ..read the full article

In June, we heard the bad news that Portal 2 had been delayed to 2011. Now we know where it landed.

Game Informer reports that Portal 2 will be released February 9 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Mac.

The Valve source that fed Game Informer the game’s release date also mentioned that Ricky Gervais Show co-host Stephen Merchant had been cast as the friendly A.I. Wheatley that we saw at E3.

Merchant replaces Valve animator Richard Lord, whose temporary audio ..read the full article

Game designer Suda 51 is making a downloadable shoot-em-up game, he said at Gamescom on Monday.

Joystiq reports that Suda’s company Grasshopper Manufacture will collaborate with publisher Digital Reality on a side-scrolling space shmup called Sine Mora for download on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

In a separate press conference, Konami announced that it will publish the hi-def re-release of Suda’s No More Heroes for the PlayStation 3 in Europe. Konami said this version of the game will utilize PlayStation Move ..read the full article