Video game narratives have so much potential. Through this interactive medium, we are often able to forge our own version of a story with the power of player choice. But despite so many games providing us with options, we are often left creating not the story we want, but the one that fits in line with predetermined binary extremes.

The moment a game rewards you with good or evil points, you start to decide which of the two moralities you want to base all future decisions on. This is because we have been trained to assume that there are far greater benefits from leaning to one side than finding a happy middle ground. Sadly, this assumption is usually correct.

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"Click for Maximum Awesome"

On a very special fiftieth episode of “Barrel Roll! A Video Game Podcast”, we are joined by two amazing guests.

Returning for the second time is “Number One Super-Fan”, Russ Walsh, to tell us all about Cave Story, probably. We also have the first appearance of Adam “Heat Man” Anania from The Mega Man Network. He is here to tell us all about the site, CES, and Mega Man 10.

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“2 Player Reviews” is a series of articles in which two members of the Wing Damage staff separately review a game, so as to give our readers multiple perspectives on the subject matter.

Player 1 – Jonah “spambot” Gregory

Have you ever played a game that is actually playing you?

That is the claim that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories makes when you first boot it up. It starts with a “Psychological Warning” that the game will be profiling you as you play it. It is an interesting way to open a game, and is the developers way of letting you know you are in for a unique experience.

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In West Grenoble, born and raised, on a podcast is where he spent most of his days. Chillin out, maxing relaxing all cool and all shooting some b-ball outside of the 1968 Olympic Winter Games… OK, I think I broke that one. Plus, the show was like, twenty years ago.

On a very special forty-ninth episode of our humble podcast, Barrel Roll, we are joined by The Xbox Domain‘s PR rep,  Holly Attesi. She gives us the low-down on the site and what they do at their community focused site. She also tells us about what she has been playing lately, which is mostly Forza 3.

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"You think I don't know Space Glasses when I see them?"

On a very special forty-fifth episode of “Barrel Roll! A Video Game Podcast”, the guys learn the hard way that even a man with space glasses can’t always trust his own space glasses to get him out of space glasses related troubles.

…or CAN he?

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It’s that time of year again! The fourth quarter of 2009 is already upon us and we at WingDamage are here to keep you in the loop about some of the notable games coming out for each platform. Below you’ll find some of our most anticipated titles for both the DS and the PSP.

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It’s that time of year again! The fourth quarter of 2009 is already upon us and we at WingDamage are here to keep you in the loop about some of the notable games coming out for each platform. Below you’ll find some of our most anticipated titles for the Nintendo Wii along with a few multi-platform titles.

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