EA SPORTS and ESPN are once again allowing fans to cast the vote for the next Madden cover athlete. The Madden NFL Cover Vote campaign for Madden NFL 13 has officially kicked off. Last year, nearly 13 million votes were cast through ESPNSportsNation.com and ESPN mobile in both companies’ most successful cross-platform activation. Tenth-seeded Cleveland Browns running back, Peyton Hillis, trucked through the six week competition all the way to the ultimate end zone – the Madden NFL 12 cover. EA teased this news at the Madden Bowl in Indianapolis during Super Bowl week. Check out the exclusive video below with former Madden Bowl champ Maurice Jones-Drew, who’s in the running for the cover this year.

One of the first purchases I ever made when I got the original Xbox along with a couple duke controllers, was a little game developed by Bioware called Knights of the Old Republic. I was only ten years old at the time and it came out during the prequel Star Wars era. That was my first Bioware game and was immediately blown away with how great it was. It had an amazingly crafted storyline, great gameplay and had one of the greatest twists in video gaming history. It set up so many personal milestones for me as it made me into the Star Wars fan I am today.

Emily Rose, the actress who brings Elena Fisher to life in Sony's blockbuster Uncharted franchise has helped developer Naughty Dog craft three epic interactive adventures. The star of Syfy's "Haven" has been playing games since she was a little girl, so getting a starring role in one of the biggest game franchises out there has been a thrill for her. Rose talks about "Haven" and gaming in this exclusive interview.

Bioware's gotten so deep in its other projects lately, namely Dragon Age II, Star Wars: The Old Republic and the upcoming Mass Effect 3, that some of us may forgotten back when they got their humble beginnings.  No, I don't mean Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic...who could forget that?  I mean Jade Empire, an Xbox-exclusive role-playing adventure that stood out for its sweet artwork and addictive gameplay.  We need more of that again, and it's nice to hear Bioware kind of agrees with us.

Free-to-play online game publisher Gameforge AG has seen over 300 million registered users. Gameforge has seen rapid player expansion -- adding 100 million registered users since August 2010, or more than 8 million new users each month. The company expects further growth from upcoming products, most notably Star Trek - Infinite Space, which has been announced for 2011. Star Trek – Infinite Space is the first official browser game set in the Star Trek universe and will mark a new era for the genre in terms of visuals. The game company will be showcasing games at Gamescom 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

At Star Wars Celebration V, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that the complete Star Wars Saga will finally come to Blu-ray Disc with a worldwide release in Fall 2011. The Star Wars Blu-ray Box Set will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films utilizing the highest possible picture and audio presentation, along with extensive special features – including documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives.

Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world is excited to announce that Karen Traviss, who has penned number one bestselling novels in the Star Wars universe, as well as bestselling novels for the Gears of War franchise, will be writing the successor novel to Halo: Ghosts of Onyx in the first part of a multi-book deal to explore the Halo Universe in the wake of the final events of Halo 3. Halo novels published by Tor have sold over a million combined copies to date, and in 2010 Tor will also publish the first in a new Halo trilogy by science fiction icon Greg Bear. The highly-anticipated Xbox 360 video game “Halo: Reach” is scheduled to release September 14. 

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced the development of Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, a free-to-play, action-packed virtual world for fans of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series on Cartoon Network. Developed and published by SOE, creators of the critically acclaimed kids’ game, Free Realms, and licensed by LucasArts, in conjunction with Lucasfilm, Clone Wars Adventures will launch online and in retail stores this fall. The new game will make its debut at E3 2010 in Los Angeles June 15-17.

Videogame publisher Atari and Del Taco, the nation’s No. 2 Mexican fast food chain, have partnered on a special promotion allowing eager fans early access to the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game, Star Trek Online. Created by Cryptic Studios, Star Trek Online for PC is set to release on February 2, 2010 in North America and will feature the voice acting of both Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy as the two Spocks.