Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference today in San Francisco, THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell says this year's E3 in Los Angeles will showcase a new graphical step for the current generation of consoles.

Electronic Arts has drawn some fire for its unconventional way of distributing cheat codes lately, and now the videogame publishing giant is trying a different approach. Gamers who purchase Superman Returns on DVD will gain access to an exclusive cheat code for the Superman Returns videogame. This code will allow you to play as Bizarro for as long as you want. When you play as Bizarro, you'll get to wreck havoc throughout Metropolis and make life miserable for its citizens.

Rockstar isn't afraid to spend Hollywood-blockbuster-level money on its games. According to a list compiled by gaming site Digital Battle, Grand Theft Auto IV and the currently in-production L.A. Noire are both among the most expensive videogames ever made.

While Digital Battle doesn't detail how it pulled together the games' budgets, and at least one publisher has already come forward saying the numbers are off, the list makes it clear that game developers are spending like movie studios to produce their games. The rundown:

BioWare's Mass Effect 2 is easily one of the best games released so far this year, and it's likely to stay up there for the remainder of 2010. It's good news for fans of Shepard's second outing today, as BioWare has revealed more downloadable content is going to be hitting the Cerebus Network in late March.