They sure don’t make music like they use to… or do they?! Souleye, composer of the delightfully retro VVVVVV soundtrack, just released his new album, Adventure. If you’re a fan of chiptune music with a modern twist, Adventure hits all the right notes and then some.

On it, you’ll hear the music of Pulsen, some reworked and previously unreleased material from VVVVVV, and a load of new stuff. You can grab the album in physical and digital form for ten bucks. And if you shoot Souleye an email before making your purchase, he’ll even sign it for you! In the meantime, you can find clips of the album inexplicably played over the top of people skydiving in squirrel suits below. (more…)

The Humble Indie Bundle is back once again!

For those of you that are unfamiliar, the bundles let you pay whatever you want for five excellent indie developed games (a $50 value). You can choose to send the money to the developers, or to either the Child’s Play or Electronic Frontier Foundation charities, which is the real purpose of the deals. But hey, they aren’t telling you where to spend your hard earned cash. That decision is up to you.

To sweeten the pot further, the games are completely DRM free, and run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. The games included this time around are Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, Hammerfight and And yet It Moves. Check out the trailer after the break.

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Prepare to cross “helping in the fight against cancer” off of your life’s To-Do list. The American Cancer Society is hoping to raise $10,000 by April 29th and they have no intention of leaving your generosity unrewarded. Far from it, in fact!

By making a donation as low as $10, you can receive not one, but three full length Songs for the Cure albums in digital form. Bump your donation up to $15 or more and you’ll even get physical copies of all three albums.

You might be wondering what all this has to do with video games. As it turns out, the over 40 artists involved with the albums include a number of Indie Game composers, OverClocked ReMix veterans, and even some musicians from bigger titles. (more…)

If you’re anything like our Editor in Chief, you probably got at least a few of those VVVVVV tunes stuck in your head as you died over 700 times in your playthrough. Well now you can hear them as you’ve never heard them before, re-imagined by a wealth of other indie artists that composer SoulEye affectionately refers to as “true heroes.”

Among the artists are Danny B (Super Meat Boy), Mattias Haggstrom Gerdt (Cobalt), and Mutherpluckin B (8 Bit Democracy) to name just a few. The $10 price of admission will grant you a digital or even a physical copy of the 23-track album, PPPPPPowerup! (more…)

Not every game we love makes it into the WingDamage top 10. Some of them just don’t have enough unanimous support. These are what we like to call “The Leftovers.”

These days it is literally impossible to play every game that comes out in a year and not get fired from your day job or completely alienate your spouse. We suffer an embarrassment of riches with so many big name titles and indie gems hitting the market on a regular basis.

I did my best to play as many games as I could get my grubby mitts on, especially in the last few months of 2010.

But I’m only one man…

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On a very special ninety-seventh episode of “Barrel Roll! A Video Game Podcast”, there was an accident in the lab. Despite every safety precaution, a series of random and increasingly wacky events lead to the experimental shrink ray scoring a direct hit on the podcast.

This week, the Gregory brothers team up to talk about what we are all here for (here on WingDamage, not here in the philosophical sense), video games.

Jesse has finally finished Monster Hunter Tri… well, the single player campaign anyway. He also picked up a sweet new Wii joystick for some Tatsunoko vs. Capcom action. Jonah finished the fun but incredibly difficult VVVVVV and also started up Epic Mickey to see what all the fuss was about.

We also discuss the meager news and game releases on this especially abbreviated episode of our podshow. Enjoy!

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On a very special ninety-fifth episode of “Barrel Roll! A Video Game Podcast”, we find our heroes facing off against the worst thing that could ever happen to the audio format: Sound Killers. Oh sure, they sound like a crappy heavy-metal band, but they are out to end all sound as we know it.

This week, the guys talk about a wide variety of games, including The Secret of Monkey Island, World of Warcraft, Donkey Kong Country Returns, VVVVVV, 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, Puzzle Agent, Sonic Colors, and Pac-Man CE DX.

We also discuss the news (meager as it is) and the new games coming out this week.

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