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One new thing you get to learn today is  that games can expire just like bread, milk and sex after marriage.

Calvin Johnson did the impossible last season, racking up 1,681 yards, 16 touchdowns and the first playoff appearance for the Detroit Lions since leather helmets went out of style. His reward for those accomplishments is the devilish curse brought on by the Madden NFL cover. Ask Peyton Hillis how last year’s cover appearance worked out for him.

While there are a bunch of gamers out there who long for the simpler days, even they have to admit that the two-tone soundtracks from classic titles sound incredibly better when played by awesome musical instruments.

Now that 343 Industries has taken over the Halo series from Bungie, they’re hard at work on the fourth installment of the best-selling series.

Last week, ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ developer BioWare revealed that it would be showering loyal players with a plethora of goodies, including a free month of play for its most dedicated devotees. The developer drew the line between the worthy Jedi masters and unworthy Padawan Learners at level 50. Anyone abo ...

Just a week later and Leisure Suit Larry is almost fully erect.

Double Fine really started something special with its hugely successful Kickstarter project. Many other developers have seen how easy it was for them to raise money for their adventure game and followed in their footsteps, and gamers have responded tremendously. Wasteland 2, Leisure Suit Larry, Tex Murphy and now Shadowrun- all returning thanks to the backing of thousands of gamers that want them,

It’s been a while since we’ve had a new Rock Band game. After Rock Band 3, people wondered where Harmonix could take their wildly popular music series and it turns out there was only one way to go – backwards.

Was there any question on the popularity of the Halo series? Bungie, makers of the Halo franchise, just released stats from the series that claims that over 20 billion Halo games have been played over 85 million days. So says this infographic that Bungie released to celebrate their achievements with the game and to hand over the series that made the game developers famous.

Cyandide Studios certainly hit the jackpot when they got the rights to George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, well before the TV show launched it into another realm of popularity.

We’re not sure whether the developers of ‘Kinect Star Wars’ actively hate George Lucas’s brainchild and sought to mock it mercilessly, or just don’t understand the appeal of lightsabers and Jedi knights and just threw something together in a crude attempt at sympathizing with the franchise’s fanatics. Whatever the case, ‘Kinect Star Wars’ is the most laughable addition to the family since the 1

2K Games has announced that they’ll have a playable demo of Borderlands 2 at this year’s PAX East. Penny Arcade’s gaming convention runs from April 6th through 8th and if you’re in Boston you can fight the crowds to play one of the two new characters in the demo- Salvador the Gunzerker or Maya the Siren.