From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Crouchomancy

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Available now.

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
Or don’t. You don’t have to. Maybe you shouldn’t. Anyway, I jumped on Twitch yesterday to stream some comic drawing. It was my first test stream on Twitch and it went great. Thanks to everyone who kept me company in the chat and judged my taste in music. I had a great time and ideally it’s something I’d like to do once a week. If you missed the stream yesterday you can still watch it right here. They yank out all the music for the VOD version which honestly, is probably for the best for a number of reasons. Watch live video from on www.twitch.tv I picked up a PS4…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Desert Bus is an Internet Institution; it’s nice to know that even on this unruly young Web, a global, perpetual collision of thoughts, there exists such a thing as tradition. Ten years in, and they’ve only condensed their hearty broth: on many occasions, and for many years, a sickly world has been made plump. I’ve called in to the big drive before, and, you know… linked things, but I’ve never made it up there to the real deal. It is very small. At least, the part which the camera sees. The everything-else part is a Keeblerian joy tree,…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Furnace

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I was going to say that we are the only two people playing Titanfall 2, but I know for a fact that isn’t true: we also play with Kara. When you play, AI Grunts scramble around asking if there are any Pilots In The Area, and we always answer Yes, technically, we are Pilots. We are garbed in a manner befitting a Pilot. But in terms of our performance, you know, maybe not Pilot level. I’m like one of these goofball Grunts in every way, basically, except you get a lot more points for killing me. I am a source of points in the way liver is a source of…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: In Name Only

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
The thing that must be contended with in any discussion of Battlefield is this: Battlefield is very Battlefieldy. You can’t say I’m wrong. I turned the word itself into an adjective that describes itself, a kind of lexical judo that puts would-be challengers on the fucking mat. This is precisely the type of jelly one can’t prepare for. But it’s also just, like, true. There are games like Call of Duty, but I don’t think there are games “like” Battlefield. What it trades for its scale and spectacle is an infantry experience…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Field Of Battle

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
We posit an artifact in today’s strip, one of great power for the writer. Because I am who I am, of course I know the rest of the sides on the Writer’s Dice. One dice goes: Fish, Bird, Wizard, Robot, Dragon, and Bug, while the other one goes Guys, Ladies, Kids, Lizards, Ghosts, and Plants. It was mostly nonsense, like the lion’s share of what we get up to, but now that I think about it these devices are surprisingly robust. For example, it’s hard not to think that James Patterson‘s Maximum Ride might have been generated by a roll of the dice…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Cubes Win

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Here’s the strip we did for Wednesday’s Make-A-Strip panel, concerning Gabriel’s legitimately weird gambling prowess. It seems like you couldn’t really have gambling “prowess.” It seems like a game with a very specific outcome and what he does in these places shouldn’t be happening. If he gets anywhere near a computer, the machine ceases to be a computer at all; but when he gets near a table, pit bosses start to sweat from their necks and they don’t know why. I used to think I was good at Blackjack, but after this…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Wagers Of Sin

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Itinerary

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’m completely obsessed with Westworld. There are a lot of articles about Westworld, but I don’t read them; I only talk to my friends about it. I know enough from the headlines out barking for their wares inside that HBO has essentially weaponized the thinkpiece as a modus of self-promotion. But how could you not write about it, is my question. We’re constantly hearing about the eternal, whirling dangers of games aping cinema, or not being willing to accept that they exist in the continuum of storytelling and thus have much to learn from it, or being…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Why am I awake at 2:43 in the morning, when I SHOULD be asleep? Ask fucking Firaxis, they’ll tell you. They’ll tell you that, in collaboration with Satan the Devil, they made an electronic prison for the mind. But I managed to escape long enough to deliver unto you a vision of incredible merchandise, all of which can be clicked to see larger versions: (CW)TB (but please, call me The Thunderbolt Of The North)

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Dr. Internet, M.D.

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I fly enough now that anything below five hours or so I don’t even feel. There are flights I like less than others. Flying down into the desert bowl of Las Vegas is generally more exciting than I’d like. “Exciting” in this case meaning that it’s easy to imagine the plane becoming two smaller, useless un-planes by virtue of whatever forces are making the plane behave in what Jane Austen might have called an “ungentleman-like manner.” Gabriel wasn’t able to make the trip to Australia last year because a doctor said “I…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Halloween seems like the right day to push a game where you make monsters out of other monster parts and then use those monsters to fight another, weirder monster. I know these guys, but don’t let that put you off: they’re very reasonable, possibly even good people. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Civilization VI is out, which you might know already, because you have become fused with your computer over the last week or so and are reading this post as data shunted directly into your visual cortex. We had a Scout par excellence that eventually met his end in the northeast, at the hands of Gilgamesh if I recall correctly, and we discovered Drama and Poetry close enough to his death that we made his demise the impetus for the creation of these art forms. The societal grief was too great to be contained and so art was required. This is one reason to play Civilization, all by…

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