At the end of 'The Lair of the Shadow Broker' downloadable content for Mass Effect 2, you'll find a terminal with all your teammates' dossiers on it. Including information only the shadow broker could get his hands on. You will find upon reading Legion's dossier that our favorite Geth happens to be quite the gamer. You can read a list of games he downloaded and even his scores and rankings on the leaderboards. There's even a bit where he is kicked for hacking some game, but he challenges the ban, and is let back onto the servers. I found this read to be worth a chuckle.

This Shepherd-only exploit works best when you have at least ten available points. Simultaneously press BLUE (X button) and GREEN (A button) when choosing the fourth rank of an ability.

This bumps up an ability to the next rank (fourth), but keeps any points spent to get there. So for example, if you decide to do this when a rank is at level three, then it would cost 4 points which you would then be given back.

When you do this using all 10 points on an ability, you get all of them back. Free Skill Points!

Note that if you do not press the BLUE and GREEN buttons at the same time you can "Back" out and "Undo Talent Points".

Go to the "Retrain Powers" menu. Retain and max out all powers using the above button exploit. Then go to the "Advanced Training" menu and buy a new power.

It seems that a character can only have seven total powers at one time but you can buy the same power more than once so that a new one over rides an old one.

Go back to the "Retrain Powers" menu and retrain all using the above exploit, again. You will receive at least 50 extra Skill Points. If you up your skills in the "Squad" menu you will NOT get the extra Skill Points.

This process can be repeated for more Skill Points. I went from 45 to 185 in two turns of this procedure. This will cost about 82,000 Element Zero points.

Remember, this only works for Shepard not the other characters, and may be patched in a future update.

When asking Zaal'Koris about his funny name/ship name the "Qwib Qwib" (on the Quarian fleet vessel), the real joke hits when he mentions desiring a more respectable ship name like "Defrahnz" or "Iktomi." These two names would have yielded the following Quarian names: Zaal'Koris vas Defrahnz (vas deferens) and Zaal'Koris vas Iktomi (vasectomy).

(Unconfirmed) When you reach the point in the Freedom's Progress mission where you are told to place your teammates around the giant blast door, you can trick the game into spawning extra YMIR Mechs (Ed: But why would you want to ... ?). First, position your team accordingly, and watch the cutscene. You'll now be confronted by a Giant YMIR Mech. Instead of killing it, turn around, and head BACK through the blast door. This will glitch the game back before the cutscene. Place your team around the blast door again, and the cutscene will play. This will spawn an extra YMIR Mech. Repeat as many times as you wish, but more than three YMIR Mechs will most likely kill you!

To do this you'll need to have the Dominate skill, the Retrain Powers and Advanced Training upgrades and tons of Element Zero. You can get the Dominate Skill by recruiting Morinth (Samara's daughter), which means you have to sacrifice Samara in her own loyalty mission. A list of planets with Element Zero can be found below. First, purchase Advanced Training and choose Dominate. This will land you a bonus skill point, which you can use by instituting the Retrain Powers upgrade. Repeat this process for additional skill points -- one at a time!

Occasionally, after completing a hacking minigame for credits etc. you can press A repeatedly as the window closes and cause the game to glitch out and let you hack a second time -- for another chunk of credits! We've confirmed that this is rare, but it does work -- so get in the habit of mashing.

If you chat it up with Yeoman Kelly Chambers often and choose to be kind to her you can instigate an "unusual" romantic encounter. You'll eventually be able to invite her to dinner. Additionally, you cannot let Kelly die in the final mission (choose a loyal escort for the crew in the final scene). After you beat the game, talk to Kelly and you'll receive an email from her. Go to your quarters and you'll be able to invite her up using your console. She'll appear and you'll be able to watch the evening's awkward events unwind. She's no Yeoman Rand, but she'll do.

Approach Legion in his quarters and highlight him but do not talk to him. He'll do "The Robot," the traditional dance of his ancestors.

You can find anomalies when scanning the following planets (listed as Cluster, System, Planet below). Anomaly = Side Quest!

    * Caleston Rift, Solveig, Sinmara
    * Caleston Rift, Talava, Taitus
    * Crescent Nebula, Lusarn, Tarith
    * Crescent Nebula, Zelene, Helyme
    * Eagle Nebula, Amun, Neith
    * Eagle Nebula, Strabo, Jarrahe Station
    * Hades Nexus, Sheol, Gei Hin
    * HourGlass Nebula, Faryar, Daratar
    * HourGlass Nebula, Ploitari, Zanethu
    * Minos Wasteland, Fortis, Aequitas
    * Omega Nebula, Ariniarkan, MSV Strontium Mule
    * Omega Nebula, Fathar, Lorek
    * Pylos Nebula, Dirada, Canalus
    * Pylos Nebula, Nariph, MSV Broken Arrow
    * Rosetta Nebula, Enoch, Joab
    * The Shrike Nebula, Xe Cha, Zada Ban
    * Sigurd's Cradle, Decoris, Sanctum
    * Sigurd's Cradle, Skepsis, Franklin
    * Titan Nebula, Haskins, Capek

Head to the Local Cluster and scan Uranus. The first two probes you launch will result in "unusual" statements from EDI.

This works for Xbxo 360 and PC versions. You must have an Bioware account to get these items. Go to this site: http://www.drpepper.com/promotions and create an account. You can use a fake email address and fake info so long as it's the correct number of characters. You do not need to confirm an email address. You must enter an age over 18. After you create your account, enter one of these codes, it doesn't matter which:

CBEEAAA41NWH
CBEEAAAE4L9N
CBEEAAAFQG9J
CBEEAAAE98ZV

After this, choose YOUR ACCOUNT and then click on REDEEM CODE. Login to your EA account and choose your prize. You can choose one of three items (Umbra Visor, Recon Hood, Sentry Interface). For the remaining items you'll need to set up a NEW ACCOUNT and use a DIFFERENT CODE. You cannot use the same account.

On EA/Bioware's interface you need to select Maff Effect 2 and then your prize. You must then click the FINALIZE link and login to your Bioware Account. PC users must download the items. 360 users will receive a message via Cerberus Network link.

Note: The Geth Pulse Rifle can only be found on Hardcore or Insanity difficulty. During the recruitment mission for Tali, look for the rifle in the same room you find Tali. It will be sitting on the ground next to a destroyed geth.

Need to speed up scanning? I found that putting the scanner all the way to the right or left, and rotating the planet the same way speeds it up a lot.

The planet actually spins quite a bit faster that way. Quite simply push both sticks in the same direction. I start at the top of the planet, and "peel" it like an electric apple peeler. It's much faster than before.