I'm pumped for Back to the Future: The Game, but this trailer leaves me puzzled: How can a standard-transmission DeLorean operate -- and travel through time -- without a driver?

Video Blips:

• Telltale Games plans to release episodes of Back to the Future: The Game in December, February, March, April, and "Finale." I assume that once they're done messing with the past, "Finale" will be the new name for the month of May. [GameTrailers]

Continue after the break for the debut of Ms. Splosion Man, a peek at Darkspore's multiplayer, and the latest map for Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Vietnam expansion.

• I worry that developer Twisted Pixel might take a page from Nintendo's playbook and base Ms. Splosion Man's abilities off of her emotions, à la Super Princess Peach. Please don't let Ms. Splosion Man draw her explosiveness from PMS.

• At first, I thought, "Great, Darkspore is just another game where you customize your own badass monster and its attacks, team up with friends, and go kick the crap out of bad guys." Then I realized that that's something I would really enjoy.

• Bad Company 2 developer DICE plans to release a new map for the Vietnam expansion pack once the community collectively completes an absurd amount of in-game teamwork tasks. Naturally, the easiest way to get there is to continue playing selfishly and wait for everyone else to step up.