The war is on and there’s only one man bearded enough to finish the fight. That man is YOU! Well, it could be you if you win this contest.

We put Medal of Honor through its paces and are giving away our Playstation 3 copy to one lucky (and hopefully bearded) reader. Simply read the rules below and let us know your favorite bearded videogame character and the game could be yours. You don’t need to have a beard to enter, but we strongly encourage you do.

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The past few years have not been kind to the storied Medal of Honor franchise. As rival franchise Call of Duty soared to greater and greater heights, the Medal of Honor series struggled to keep up. It’s setting had even become a joke as every year we gamers were treated to a glut of World War II shooters.

It was obvious that a change was needed to spark the franchise back to the top. New studio Danger Close was brought in to handle the single player campaign and legendary Battlefield creators DICE took care of the game’s multi-player mode. This was the first game in the series that was going to have an M rating. The setting has also been changed from World War II to modern day Afghanistan.

Everything was in place for Medal of Honor to challenge Halo and Call of Duty for shooter supremacy.

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The Mojave wasteland is a dangerous place. It’s full of giant mutated animals, raiders, and warring factions, all vying for the same small pieces of dust that are still livable. In other words, it’s just an average day in the Fallout universe.

This time around, Obsidian Entertainment is at the helm, and their team has some of the guys from the original PC Fallout games. While I’ve only briefly experienced the first two games, I was very interested to see what they would bring to the table for Fallout: New Vegas.

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“Friday Old Games” is a series of articles in which we review a game from the older generations of consoles, share why we picked it, and whether or not it holds up with time.

I have never been a PC gamer. When Half-Life came out for the PC, I was still rocking my Commodore 64 (which was just a teensy bit short in the RAM department). Besides I was too busy with my PS1 to worry about insanely awesome FPS games with pitch perfect atmosphere; I had some Battle Arena Toshinden to conquer.

In all seriousness Half-Life dropped with the force of a judo throw from Segata Sanshiro (which is equivalent to 10 megaton bombs.) It completely revolutionized the FPS genre. Everything from the graphics to the story to the puzzles to the combat pushed the genre in fantastic new directions. Even dedicated non-PC guys like myself stared enviously at our buddy’s copy and hoped for a console port.

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"Bomberman Act Zero 2: The Bombinating"

There was a lot of fuss made when it was announced Bioshock was getting a sequel. As a game, it is very self-contained. The atmosphere and story made it great, but also seemed to have wrapped everything up nicely. What could you even do with a sequel that wouldn’t ruin what the original game accomplished?

I am happy to say that I have returned to Rapture in Bioshock 2 and came away liking their dark, dystopian world even more.

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"...something about bubblegum"

“Friday Old Games” is a series of articles in which we review a game from the older generations of consoles, share why we picked it, and whether or not it holds up with time.

Before I get going here, I want to ask a simple question: What happened to friendly, jammin’ aliens like Toejam and Earl? It seems no matter where you look, the gaming industry is cramming ‘shoot aliens’ down our throat.

Mass Effect, Gears of War, Halo, Half-Life… all of these franchises highly successful, and all of them based on the same simple formula; Go in. Shoot some aliens. Save the day.

But before anyone confronted Saren, closed an emergence hole, pistol whipped a grunt or decided a crow bar works better as a club, Duke Nukem was the prime offender.

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When Valve first announced a sequel to their popular co-op FPS, Left 4 Dead, their was an uprising in the Steam community. Gamers were crying fowl, saying that Valve had broken their promises and their hearts.

Why isn’t this DLC? You PROMISED! They cried.

Some even started a boycott group on Steam that is currently over 30,000 strong. Never mind that the first random group member I clicked on has logged over fifty hours in Left 4 Dead 2, and the second random person I clicked on had over two-hundred hours in the main game and over eighty in the authoring tools (used for modding).

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Has your doctor diagnosed you with “cursatitus”; a disease requiring your body to hear constant, nonsensical profanity in order to not die? We at WingDamage are here to help. While normally such an ailment would require the healing power of House of the Dead: Overkill, Bethesda has released their own brand of medication, Rogue Warrior.

We may not have a med school degree, but we’re pretty sure receiving a free copy of Rogue Warrior will, in time, cure you of the dreaded cursatitus. To enter, simply follow the rules below and tell us your favorite “G Rated” replacement for swearing such as “Dadgummit!”.

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Rogue Warrior features Richard Marcinko, the real life creator and commander of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six, which is the Counter-Terrorism squad. His Wikipedia page reads like the real life adventures of John Rambo. In the game he is voiced by Academy Award nominee, Mickey Rourke.

The story sees our hero, Marcinko, taking out commies, 80′s action movie style, in North Korea and the Soviet Union. All the ingredients are there for some fun times, so why does the game come up short on the thrills? (more…)

"Beautiful, Despite the Malaria"

We all have those games that we miss the first time around. With the busy release schedule of modern gaming, no one has time to play everything. That is why we at WingDamage present to you “Fashionably Late Reviews“. This is our series on games from the current generation of consoles that we may have missed on their initial release, but have gone back to experience now.

You are dropped into Far Cry 2′s fictional African country at the height of a civil war with a very clear objective: eliminate the Jackal, the notorious arms dealer that sold weapons to both sides, igniting the conflict.

The African Savannah captured in Far Cry 2 is the perfect example of an open world done right. Dotted with unlockable safe houses and guard posts, the living, breathing world of Far Cry 2 is so expertly crafted that it becomes a character itself.

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