Take up the reigns of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Academy of Champions: Soccer (Wii)
• Band Hero (NDS/PS2/Wii/PS3/X360)
• Chronicles of Mystery: Curse of the Ancient Temple (NDS)
• C.O.P. The Recruit (NDS)
• Disney's A Christmas Carol (NDS)
• Dragon Age: Origins (PS3/X360/PC)
• EA Sports FIFA Manager 10 (PC)
• Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked (Wii)
• Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier (PSP/PS2)
• LEGO Rock Band (NDS/Wii/PS3/X360)
• Mountain Sports (Wii)
• Need for Speed NITRO (NDS/Wii)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (PS3/X360)
• Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (NDS/PSP)
• Star Wars The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition (PS3/X360/PC)
• We Cheer 2 (Wii)

We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: Rush is a 3D puzzle game with more than 70 challenging levels. Players need to guide Cubes to color coded exit points. Using the Wii Remote’s intuitive controls, players herd the colored cubes along by using Conveyer Belts, Warps, Stop Signs, Directional Signs and Splits.

For the real estate mogul in everybody, Real Estate Empire 2 contains over thirty different levels packed into four different scenarios, now featuring a streamlined upgrade and renovation system that makes the game easier to pick up and play.

New Star Soccer 2010 is a football game where you must train hard, play well and live the life of an up and coming sports star. The road to success is never easy but you can achieve fame and fortune if you have what it takes!

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a first-person survival horror game set in the late 18th century, and will take the player on a thrill-ride through the depths of madness, exploring the dark side of the human emotions.

Euro developer Twelve has signed a multiyear license agreement with legendary Windsurf World Champion, kitesurfing pioneer and allround waterman Robby Naish, to create a new videogame franchise of Windsurf, Surf and Kitesurfing videogames.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will see the most realistic modeling of conflict scenarios in a new contemporary theatre of war. By offering a multitude of military disciplines, gameplay will deliver warfare more realistic and intense than ever before, while an extensive multiplayer component will create battles on an incredible scale. Codemasters has teamed up with Intel to launch a mission contest with Intel Core i7 equipped PCs and collector goodies as prizes.

Today should be another crazy shipping day, with plenty of new games arriving in stores. I think I'm going to have to take a little break from CrimeCraft to check out some Dragon Age and Borderlands.

We watched The Amazing Race and last week's episode of Heroes since our DVR had a hiccup, and both episodes were good. Last week, I started watching Drag Me To Hell, and while a lot of people claim it's one of Sam Raimi's best movies yet, I have yet to be convinced of that. Granted, I'm only 15 mins into the movie, but so far, I'm quite unimpressed.

Later this week, we have a few more press trips to go on, so stay tuned as we'll be bringing back coverage, screens, trailers and interviews to keep you guys informed.

The Mass Effect trilogy is a sci-fi adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life forms and mysterious uncharted planets. In this dark second chapter, Saren's evil army of Geth soldiers has just been defeated, and humans, who are still struggling to make their mark on the galactic stage, are now faced with an even greater peril… A Microsoft retailer training quiz hints at future ME2 DLC plans as it mentions planned episodic content via DLC, full campaign expansions for download, and new downloadable worlds.