By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’m back from Spokane - whole of body, but perhaps not whole of mind. I’ve been doing a D&D game on the weekends for my son Elliot and his friends, and it’s been pretty fascinating so far. I was dropping him off at a social skills camp for kids on what is called The Spectrum. I don’t like this term, and I want another one. I’m considering Spectrumites. Anyway, what reminded me to talk about it was that I’d seen the guys from Wheelhouse Workshop out front, which made sense because they use D&D and other social games in such a…

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New Comic: Spocairn

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Polygon did in fact have to change their article about Apocrypha, and I am pleased, plus technically (as I am being told on Twitter) it should be “lupursine.” I was trying to come up with something that sucked really bad, though, and being profoundly incorrect is certainly one way to suck. Apocrypha is by Lone Shark Games, who works out of our office downstairs. And they know everybody, so Patrick Rothfuss has several pieces of very, very short - like, micro short - fiction in there. I have some writing in one of the expansions myself, and I agreed to do it for…

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New Comic: The Worsdman

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Patrick has been a friend of ours forever, and as proof of this immutable bond he’ll be joining us tonight for another episode of The “C” team with his half-orc dilettante. Hit up HyperRPG’s Twitch and drink deeply. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I bounced off LawBreakers, and - like usual - I’m happy to accept the blame. I couldn’t find it; it’s possible I didn’t try hard enough. It’s also possible that there is more than one game out right now. I haven’t checked, but I feel confident. As an adherent of what might be called “old school” shooter, Gabe thinks it is super fun - but the art really bothers him. We talk about it a little bit in an upcoming podcast. I don’t have his condition, but I do understand it in some ways. The first time I ever…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Won’t Someone Think Of The Laws

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
I remember when I first conceived the idea of stealing the idea of pin trading from Disney. I hoped that some day it would grow beyond just our Penny Arcade characters and cover all the things we love about games and comics and nerd shit. Never in my wildest imagination could I have foreseen someone at PAX West 2017 trading Garfield and Master Chief. This is seriously an incredible group of pins and I love that a few of them are for good causes. Speaking of which, I did draw the Take This pin. Gamers and mental health are very close to my heart, so I hope you’ll go pick up the pin and…

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
My oldest son Gabe is about to turn thirteen and already I can feel him emitting powerful teenager angst rays. One of the things he wanted for this momentous birthday was for me to run a D&D game for his group of friends. Well I ran it on Friday and I have to say that running D&D for twelve year olds is the absolute best thing ever. Especially when it’s everyone’s first game and they have no fucking idea what to expect. I let them pick from some pre-generated characters and made them pick names. I know in Tycho’s game the kids are roleplaying as kids but at my table they…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
It’s coming up fast - only an hour or so until noon PDT. Drop some Qs in here! (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Sonic fandom a robust and layered thing. You need a source of energy, of psychic calories, to endure what they have endured. The good memories generated by a Puyo Puyo reskin or the explosive Sonic Adventure are as subject to entropy as anything else. There are some for whom it is a matter of identity, an anthro trojan horse driven deep into the consciousness of a nation. Some are simply very, very fond of the color blue. For Galabriel, it’s bound up in his pledge to an ancient order - he was a Servant of the Master System, and the Genesis inherited his fealty. …

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New Comic: The Ring Within

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Hey! I had a couple requests for this on the Twitch channel, and here it is if you have any questions. We’ve been putting out a lot of new work lately, on various channels, so it’s worth getting this in front of you if you’re curious about one or more of our nefarious tendrils. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I love Housemarque - Super Stardust HD is one of my favorite games of all time, and defeating it with Kiko is one of my favorite gaming memories. I thought Resogun was very good also. Now they’re dropping this Matterfall shit, and it’s bonkers but I love it too. As an adult, I was surprised and delighted to learn that Hair Metal (I’m aware there are more technical terms, subgenres which begat subgenres, etc.) continued to progress elsewhere in the world after it stopped being a going concern here. That is the ground Housemarque treads: they make arcade…

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New Comic: The Digital Revolution

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
My wife Kara planned a vacation to celebrate me turning forty next month. We just got back from eight glorious days in Maui and my sunburn has officially entered the “itchy as fuck” phase. I’m not good at vacationing and eight days is actually the longest I’ve ever allowed myself to take off. I really like my job and the work I do so sometimes it’s difficult to step away from it. I’m very glad I did though as I was starting to get a little burned out and I think the time away really helped. As Cypress Hill so aptly put it 17 years ago, “It’s a fun job, but it’s still a…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I always have a good time working with my friend Kris Straub; we’ve been working for years to find a project to do together, and it happened sort of without us realizing it - with AcqInc: The “C” Team. I didn’t realize that’s what we had done at first, but we have three solid hours or so a week to make a story together now, we just do it in real time and he doesn’t know a hundred percent of it. His entire character is an ironic OC Self-Insert called “K’thriss Drow’b” that he tucked into his intro videos for Acquisitions…

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New Comic: Peep This

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I had mentioned on the Twitch thing that I like hobbies that have a lot of custom language, that is to say Jargon; most hobbies are like this, but some are more dense than others. Someone bellowing from the depths of Twitor, The Truncated Realm, suggested that my hobby is actually learning new words, and the particular genuflections of these hobbies are essentially just the rind. I can’t imagine why I would argue with that. Gaming has tons and tons of words. It used to have even more, if you were playing during the MS-DOS era, and these terms weren’t flourishes -…

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New Comic: Sniperclips

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