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News: PATV

gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:25:11 -0800

Gabe: I forgot to mention it on Friday, but the latest episode of PATV went up. This is the first of two parts detailing our incredible ping-pong victory over Bungie. -Gabe out

News: Penny Arcade Book Tour

gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:46:20 -0800

Gabe: Our new book, The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11½ Anniversary Edition AKA "Nearly Twelve Years of Bullshit" will be coming out on February 23rd. This is a huge hardcover book full of great stuff including a history of the comic, Stories about PAX and Child's Play, Interviews, photos, an Art Gallery, A selection of our favorite comics from the past 11 years, and some of our best story-lines. I'm really proud of this book and in order to celebrate its release, Tycho and I will be kicking off a cross country book tour. Here is the full list ...

Comic: You Know What I'm Talking About

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Comic: You Know What I'm Talking About

News: You Know What I'm Talking About

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Tycho: Mass Effect 2 is finally in the bag after perhaps thirty hours of interstellar ramblin', and I'll be God Damned if they haven't ended up with something like a new genre. Bioware's unsparing assessment of their first go-round has resulted in a taut-ass sky-journey that spends hour after hour cinching itself around your throat. I suggested a few days ago that the conversations ME2 engenders - conversations which might unfold during wholly spontaneous confabs - recommend the experience and reinforce how distinct different playthroughs can be. You run into trouble around the sixty or seventy percent complete mark, though, when ...

News: This Lady

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:59:02 -0800

Tycho: is so fucking rad. The link is more or less a video appraisal of what makes English such a Goddamned whorehouse. Trying to explain this satanic gumbo to a new speaker - my task as a father - is beyond daunting. When he wants to know why this or that bullshit is so irretrivably fucked, I've begun telling him that our language is haunted. (CW)TB

Comic: The Appocalypse

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Comic: The Appocalypse

News: The Appocalypse

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Tycho: Virtually every person who's "done time" in Azeroth has begged for a portable Auction House application, a hunger which is being answered with a premium application - and may it be the first of many. I'm not a current player, though Gabriel made an honest entreaty yesterday morning to that effect. Even so, I'm intrigued by the idea of secondary screens as vectors of gameplay. Make no mistake: the Auction House is absolutely a game. For my part, I hope they don't implement this and then recline in satisfaction; harvesting and crafting in particular are open to a systemically valid manifestation. ...

Comic: Questionable On Many Levels

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Comic: Questionable On Many Levels

News: Questionable On Many Levels

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Tycho: You may have guessed that we'd feel it necessary to comment on the most recent local news offering about videogames. I'm of the opinion that we've already illuminated their general practices with this ancient comic, created almost two years ago to the day. If there's a better way to characterize the essential mendacity and debauched ethics of that format, I know it not. We did approach the subject matter though, with a strange comic, the sort of thing you might discuss in a private context but never within earshot of the larger society. Obviously, the prowlings of decrepit older men ...

Comic: The Future Is No Escape

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Comic: The Future Is No Escape