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Comic: Mum’s The Word

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-08T07:01:01+00:00

New Comic: Mum’s The Word

News Post: FF XIII-2

gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) — 2012-02-06T21:02:47+00:00

Gabe: I ended up enjoying FF XIII by the time I got to hour thirty or so. My biggest problem with that game was how slow it was to start. Also the story didn’t make any fucking sense but I don’t really care about that. By the time I got the hang of the paradigm system I was bored with the game. FF XIII-2 gets rid of all the bullshit set up and throws you right into the fun stuff. There is a bit of a tutorial but for the most part the game assumes you know how Paradigms work. In

News Post: Le Chat Avec Le Chapeau

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-06T07:01:49+00:00

Tycho: Gabriel played Final Fantasy XIII the requisite number of hours to know that he liked it, and so he was well prepared to like Final Fantasy XIII-2: the XIIIening. He was also well equipped by his previous experience to dominate the game’s earliest chapters, as he’d already long mastered the Paradigm system. I never quite got there myself, because I quit too early, and also because I was playing a game that I’m not entirely sure even exists. I was playing the one where instead of simply calling “plays” in the form of tuned Paradigms you do that and

Comic: Le Chat Avec Le Chapeau

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-06T07:01:25+00:00

New Comic: Le Chat Avec Le Chapeau

Comic: Transposition

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-03T07:01:25+00:00

New Comic: Transposition

News Post: Transposition

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-03T07:01:15+00:00

Tycho: Readers are lashing out at William C. Deitz’ addition to the Mass Effect ouvre, with his new novel “Deception.” Indeed, they feel deceived! And they are cataloguing this beast-man’s transgressions in an endlessly elaborated upon codex with such terrible granularity that I’ve begun to feel sympathy for the man. I was under the impression that I liked Mass Effect, maybe even liked it a lot, liked it more than most people. But, no. I’m not entirely certain I want to like Mass Effect this much. Tie-In Fiction seems like a tough racket, all told. It has a mercenary quality

News Post: The Creative Spark

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-01T07:01:57+00:00

Tycho: Douglas Adams suggested in his opus that mice were not simply mice but rather the unassuming projections of a pan-dimensional race into our universe. I’ve met Daniel Cook before, wiry and lean, compact, an organism apparently designed for fold-up travel, and I wonder if there isn’t something similar going on with him. If you’ve played Panda Poet or Triple Town, you’ve played his games. There is a very interesting (though perhaps “inside baseball”) account of his dealings with publisher 6waves that we have taken great care to summarize in today’s strip. Gabriel wanted to know if I had

Comic: The Creative Spark

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-02-01T07:01:51+00:00

New Comic: The Creative Spark

News Post: Plurality

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-01-30T07:01:54+00:00

Tycho: Gabriel the Younger expressed intense delight at the prospect of Minecraft Lego, a state of affairs his father could not entirely understand. A member of the forums awaits with great anticipation the inevitable Lego Minecraft videogame. This is the Circle of Life; one can very nearly hear Elton John. I didn’t even know about any extra quests or whatever in Kingdoms of Amalur with new copies, but learning that such a thing exists isn’t as startling to me as it is to other sentients. The version of Kingdoms of Amalur we have contains no DLC code, it was just

Comic: Plurality

tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) — 2012-01-30T07:01:20+00:00

New Comic: Plurality