At 88 miles per hour, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd took millions of spellbound viewers on a high-flying voyage across the space-time continuum in a trio of wildly inventive tales that broke box-office records around the world. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning cinematic franchise that generated nearly one billion dollars worldwide, the Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy will debut on Blu-ray and DVD on October 26, 2010 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.  Gamers will be able to drive the DeLorean in a new series of episodic videogames from Telltale Games.

LIVERPOOL, England – Bizarre Creations has steered away from racing simulations with its latest racing game, Activision’s Blur. The acclaimed studio has incorporated an all-new take on the classic arcade power-up system in this game. Ged Talbott, lead designer on Blur, offers an exclusive breakdown of the power-up system and some driving tips that will help you finish at the front of the pack in this adrenaline-fueled racer.

2K Sports today announced The REAL Hockey Experience on Wii, an unprecedented NHL 2K11 cross-country tour featuring NHL players, an array of fan-friendly giveaways and contests, and hands-on play with NHL2K11 months before it is released exclusively for the Wii system.  Traveling throughout the northern United States and Canada, 2K Sports will bring the excitement of NHLhockey to more than a dozen cities in a custom-designed NHL 2K11 recreation vehicle rigged with portable video game gear created especially for fans and gamers. The trail of pucks, prizes and playable demos will also feature appearances by NHL stars, including Vancouver Canucks forward and NHL 2K11cover athlete Ryan Kesler, Los Angeles Kings defenseman Jack Johnson, New Jersey Devils forward Travis Zajac and more.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina – Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 technology is fueling a major new government and commercial partnership that will send gamers to the moon, Mars and Beyond. Virtual Heroes has partnered with serious game developers Motion in Place and Project Whitecard to develop a new massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game with the help and resources of NASA. This new subscription-based game, Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond, which will launch in phases beginning with a playable demo on July 6 through Valve’s Steam network called Moon Base Alpha.

North Carolina is now home to the next generation of video game development. Joystick Labs announced Tuesday it is accepting applications for the first seed-stage venture fund and accelerator program focused exclusively on the development of digitally distributed video games.  Juan Benito, a veteran executive of the gaming industry, co-founded Joystick Labs to help independent game developers bridge the gap between having a great game idea and producing a game.

While Twilight fans have a new movie in Eclipse, there’s still no console videogame. But Twi-hards may find solace in a new mobile game from GameHouse, a division of RealNetworks, and Summit Entertainment. There are a pair of new mobile games called The Twilight Saga: Memory Quest and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Movie Game.  

Activision has a new shooter hitting Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC that just hit store shelves. The team at Raven Software has been working on Singularity, a shooter with a time-traveling twist that takes players from a near future back to the 1950s. The action is set on a Russian island called Katorga-12, where the Soviets discovered a strange new element, E-99, that they believed could end the Cold War once and for all. Long story short, the experiment is rushed and botched and the Russians rip a hole through time and space with horrible results.