One of the things that's always a challenge in superhero games is giving the character new powers as they go. Infamous 2 got to bypass Cole McGrath's origin story, and as a result introduced new powers while presenting a faster-moving, more enjoyable story than the first game.

Once a game comes out, some game developers may go to tropical locations or re-acquaint themselves with families who they barely get to see during crunch time. Sucker Punch did something a little different during their summer vacation: They turned Cole McGrath-the electrically-powered hero of the development studio's…

In a cutscene for the upcoming downloadable standalone Cole MacGrath adventure, inFamous 2: Festival of Blood, we learn why bloodsuckers from fake New Orleans would go to all the trouble of kidnapping a guy with superpowers.

We featured the art of Bjorn Hurri (Total War, Steampunk Star Wars) only a few weeks ago here on Kotaku, but since then he's been given the all clear to release a ton of content from his most recent project, inFamous 2.

The trend this year in video games, only about a decade late, is to let players repel an attack on New York City. See Crysis 2 this spring, Modern Warfare 3 this fall, and other games that put a virtual gun in their player's hands and some fantastic evil in their sights. The enemy isn't explicitly Al Qaeda, rather…

I suck at being the bad guy in video games. I always get all invested, and then I'm hardly ever able to commit to being evil. But for some reason, Infamous 2 has become that game that's made it so much fun for me to be bad–-and I have those annoying guys that drum on pails to thank.

In this week's episode of Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes' excellent podcast Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, the dynamic duo spends several minutes hawking Infamous 2. Did you know the game will "suck yo dick?"

Towards the end of inFamous, Cole MacGrath is given a vision of The Beast, an all-powerful world destroyer that only he has the power to stop. At the beginning of Infamous 2, he fails.

Giving players the tools needed to create custom missions in a game like inFamous 2 is a wonderful idea, as long as the tools are easy enough that anyone can use them. You be the judge.