How would you like to be part of an elite club with only 1,000 members? I’m talking about the official “People Who Own a Limited Edition Physical Copy of the New Bad Dudes Metroid Album” club. It’s very exclusive, but we can make it happen (we know a guy).

Club benefits include having a copy of Metroid Arrange 25th Anniversary Album by the Bad Dudes (including a bonus track not available in the digital version), the ability to feast your eyeballs on a glorious, double-sided poster and four panel comic, and the satisfaction of knowing that you’re now just a bit better than everyone else out there.

All you have to do is follow the instructions below and let us know what your favorite Metroid powerup is in the comments of this post. Do you like tearing through enemies with the screw attack? Or maybe you prefer turning enemies into platforms with the ice beam. Space jump over to the comments section and let us know!

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below and tell us your favorite powerup from the Metroid series
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 5:00pm PST on Friday, December 30th. We will then randomly select one winner

Gather thine sword and shield and preparist thou for combat, verily!

OK, enough of that nonsense. If you like strategy and/or Arthurian Legend than have we got a giveaway for you. We have several codes for Paradox Interactive and Neocore Games’s King Arthur: Fallen Champions that we want to give to you, the faithful WingDamage readers.

All you have to do is go to twitter, follow the WingDamage account and tweet “To Arms! Follow and RT to win King Arthur Fallen Champions from @WingDamage & @PDXinteractive” between now and Friday. On Friday night we will pick 5 (five) winners at random and message them their sweet, sweet codes.

Click past the break for full contest rules.

Contest Rules:

1. Follow our twitter feed and tweet “To Arms! Follow and RT to win King Arthur Fallen Champions from @WingDamage & @PDXinteractive”
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 5:00pm PST on Friday, October 7th. We will then randomly select one winners

All the kids these days are jamming to the sound of acoustic frontier trip hop. It’s new, it’s hip, and it’s the coolest. You don’t want to be left behind. You need to get in on the action, but where will you find it? We got your back.

You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this! We at WingDamage.com are giving away one physical copy of the Bastion soundtrack for free to one lucky commenter. Not only is this a contender for video game soundtrack of the year, it’s also signed by Bastion composer Darren Korb himself.

To win, simply follow the instructions below and tell us your own mish-mash of musical genres in the comments. The crazier the better! We’ll dig our hole if you build a wall. Just don’t pick acoustic frontier trip hop. Korb already cornered the market with that one.

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below and give us the name of your own crazy mish-mash musical genre (inspired by Korb’s acoustic frontier trip hop)
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 5:00pm PST on Friday, September 23rd. We will then randomly select one winner

Time marches on and a brand new Humble Indie Bundle has hit the net. What’s that you say? You missed the last one featuring the excellent wizard/puzzle/platformer Trine?

Well have no fear, because we are giving away a copy of the last bundle, The Humble Frozenbyte bundle. It features the aforementioned Trine, along with Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor. They also threw in their unfinished title Jack Claw along with the game’s editor software and their upcoming title Splot. And all these games can be yours for the low, low price of nothing. Don’t worry, we donated to the bundle back when it was still active to get this extra code, so you can sleep well.

All you have to do is leave a comment telling us who your favorite wizard is. It’s just that easy.

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below telling us who your favorite wizard is
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 7:00pm PST on Friday, August 5th. We will then randomly select one winner

Disclaimer: We are in no way affiliated with the Humble Bundle and are giving this code away to a reader out of the kindness of our hearts.

If you follow WingDamage at all, you’ve no doubt noticed that I started going through my backlog and playing through games I never finished in the past. There are quite a few of them, since I have the bad habit of playing large chunks of games but never finishing them.

This is where you, the reader, come in. As I go through my stack, I’ll periodically put up a poll where you can vote on which out of several games I will be forced to play and write about next.

There is no theme or commonality this time. Later polls might be specific genres, systems, etc., but for this first one I just picked six games from my stack that sounded interesting. So feel free to vote and even plead your case in the comments. The poll closes March 1st at 6pm Pacific and I will do my best to start playing whatever game wins that night.

If there is a lot of interest in a game that doesn’t end up winning, it will be back up for voting next time for sure.

As you probably noticed last week, there’s been a bit of a change in the flow of content here on WingDamage. Instead of every post being a large, banner-style image like the one used above, there are now smaller stories mixed in. These are, of course, “the news.”

For a long time, we only discussed news on the podcast, keeping the site’s posts based around original content. But as our schedules in life changed, we realized we needed a new way to bring you content more regularly.

Still, we never want to become a redundant site. We don’t want to regurgitate all the same news posts you can find everywhere else. That’s why we’re making our focus a bit off the beaten path. Expect to see mostly coverage of indie games and game music, along with whatever else strikes our fancy on the road less traveled.

Have no fear! This in no way replaces the original content the site is known for. Instead, the news is meant to supplement it in order to provide readers more content than ever before while still keeping their interests in mind. And if the very sight of news posts offends your eye, there’s a neat little filter in the sidebar that let’s you switch to a filtered view, excluding all news posts (except “site news” like this post) from the page.

We hope you enjoy this revised direction for the site. If you have any comments or feedback, feel free to email us or leave a comment.

Is there a distinct lack of funky jams in your life? Have you been suffering from a deficiency of tracks with which to get down and funky? We at WingDamage are here to help.

We’re giving away a copy of The OneUps new album, Intergalactic Redux, to one lucky reader. You can hear for yourself the new sound of The OneUps as they transform the classic videogame songs you love into funktastic voyages through space and time. All you have to do is read the rules below and tell us which videogame song you’d like to hear the band take on someday and you’ll be entered to win a physical copy of their new album.

And while you wait to find out if you’ve won, why not check out our interview with the band’s main man, Mustin?

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below and tell us a song from a game you’d like to hear The OneUps do a version of someday
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 5:00pm PST on Friday, February 11th. We will then randomly select one winner

Ah yes, Minecraft, the indie game delight that stole the show in 2010. Now everyone’s talking about Minecraft like it were paninis or something. And if you still don’t have it, you’re missing out on the trendy pulse of the cool indie world. (You’re also missing out on what’s a really unique and fun game.) But WingDamage is gonna be your WingMan and get your back. Back before the game entered beta, wonderful ol’ me picked up a download code for the title.

How do you get that download code? It’s pretty simple: just think of what material you’d like in the game. Follow the rules below, and before long you may have your very own key to getting WingDamage’s #7 game of the year for 2010. For FREE. Because that’s how we buy your love and respect.

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below and tell us what element/material you’d like in the game, and what it would be used for (you can take a look at what materials Minecraft currently has here)
2. Limit one entry per person
3. Entries must be accepted by 6:00pm PST on Friday, January 21st. We will then randomly select one winner

Good luck to you all!

Sure, you could play a racing game where you drive a car on a road like you have so many times before. But why not play a game where things are randomly on fire? Why not play a game that let’s you jump over hot air balloons? While nail’d might not be the most polished racer on the block, it let’s you do all these things. And thanks to your close personal friend, WingDamage, you’ll be able to do all these things for free.

That’s right, we’re giving a way a free copy of nail’d for the Xbox 360 to one lucky reader. All you need to do is read the rules below and tell us a one-word name for a new racing game of your own creation along the same lines as titles like nail’d, Blur, Pure, and DiRT.

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below and tell us a one-word title for a new racing game (like Blur or Pure, but using your own imagination)
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 5:00pm PST on Friday, December 31st. We will then randomly select one winner

Good luck! And don’t forget to check out our review!

Well, it happened. We got a 3D Sonic game that’s actually pretty fun. Now that we’ve grabbed some sweet rings, saved an alien race of marketable creatures, and spouted off the cheesiest of dialogue, it’s time to pass the torch to you.

That’s right, we’re giving away our review copy of Sonic Colors (Wii) to one lucky reader. Just read the rules below and let us know your favorite color in the comments. It doesn’t have to be one of the colors represented in Sonic Colors. If “Puke Green” or “Neon Brown” is your favorite, go for it (you weirdo). A winner could be you!

Contest Rules:

1. Leave a comment below and tell us your favorite color
2. Limit one entry per person
3. All entries must be made by legal U.S. residents
4. Entries must be accepted by 5:00pm PST on Friday, December 17th. We will then randomly select one winner

Good luck! And don’t forget to check out our review!