EA announced today that NFL MVP and NFC Champion running back Shaun Alexander will appear on the cover of EA's latest football title Madden NFL 07. With this year’s focus on the running game, Alexander is the perfect representative for the cover of the most popular football videogame franchise.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a detailed real-time strategy game that lets players completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia. This demo allows you to control Cleopatra and the Egyptians as you take on the Romans.

Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Metal Combat - Trailer (3)
• Hitman: Blood Money [PS2/Xbox/X360/PC] - Trailer
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When negotiations are no longer an option and the world’s most dangerous weapons are compromised, it’s time for the Winback assault team to neutralize the threat. Originally scheduled to ship April 18, KOEI announced today that the launch has been pushed back for a week, and no specifics as to why were provided.

Icculus has released an updated dedicated Linux server files for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 2. This v1.2c version addresses mods with localized strings and resolves a crash issue.

Ubisoft announced today that Paradise has gone gold and will be available in stores on April 26. Paradise is an adventure game which immerses the player in the heart of Africa, at once eternal and terribly contemporary. A young woman, the daughter of a fierce dictator, crosses the continent in the company of a leopard, to take him to the place of his birth, the peaks of Kilimanjaro.

Microsoft Game Studios and Rare Ltd are giving Xbox 360 fans a chance to unleash their inner artist and create their own original art designs for their favorite video game characters with the Kameo: Elements of Power Design Your Skin Contest.

AoE III: The WarChiefs will allow you to lead one of three Native American civilizations to expand their empire and fight for control of the Americas, as well as new gameplay elements and content including new civilizations, a new single player campaign, Home City enhancements and additional maps and units.

Already available on PC since yesterday, Ubisoft announced today that three new skirmish (co-op) maps for Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood are available for free download via Xbox Live for owners of the title. The three new maps include two American skirmish missions, "Into the Farm" and "Across the Marsh," and one German mission, "Flanked From Above."

Activision and Lionhead today announced The Movies expansion pack, Stunts & Effects, adding new features such as stuntmen, a movie-making toolset, a diverse selection of dangerous stunts, astounding visual effects, impressive new sets and a number of brand-new techniques and technologies that can be used when making a movie.