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New Comic: The Ballad Of Sword Guy

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
In addition to being shredded five or six at a time, the doomed creeps in For Honor also have informative barks that they kick out - like, if your friend is perforated. It’s nice to have a second or two to process the fact that it’s about to be 4v1 and you are not on the “four” side of the V. They say these things the way a person in a movie about fatal medieval lacerations would, there’s a lot of drama involved; they’re always gonna remember somebody’s name or whatever, but some of these names might not be memorable in the classic sense. I…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
If Gabe is playing a game at home and then decides to play it at the office, there’s usually a point at which you need to make absolutely certain the save has been copied up into the cloud from his PS4. And then you need to make sure that you’ve copied it back up after you play, which doesn’t, you know… always happen. Since last Friday, he’s been playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on his Switch, and then… just bringing in the Switch. Like, the whole thing. It’s still kind of a weird idea even though I’ve seen it…

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New Comic: Miniature Horses

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
It wasn’t quite this simple, but it was fairly simple. I, um… okay. I did take off my glasses and coat and put on a stocking cap (which might be a tuque, beanie, or “knit cap” where you’re from) and go in to buy another one. But none of them were for me; I don’t even have one yet. I’m getting them for people at the office and I like the hunt - I’ve only played on Gabe’s. I thought I was super smooth; the person who told me I couldn’t have another one was stocking a shelf not three feet from me, so I had to…

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
I was able to pick up a Switch on Friday although I probably made it harder than it needed to be. I showed up at my local Fred Meyer around 5:30 in the morning and stood in the cold and the rain until they opened at 7am. Later that day a bunch of folks from the office went over to the local Amazon store and just walked right in and bought Switches. Of course if I had done that, I wouldn’t have this awesome cold I caught. Looks like I might be patient zero at PAX East this week! I am completely in love with Zelda: Breath of the Wild. First of all it’s beautiful. There are plenty of big…

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New Comic: Which Switch

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
The second Banner Saga game just hit in that dealio I was talking about before, so I wanted to remind everyone and I also wanted to expose human minds to our insane video that we made with Kris Straub again: Here is the condensed, yet still flavorful version: From March 2nd through March 6th, Twitch Prime members can get Banner Saga 2 for free via the Twitch Launcher. The novel portion is this: every time a person downloads and plays the game, Amazon gives Banner Saga developer Stoic a dollar, up to a 100k. Even if you had the games already - and I do, several times over -…

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
You might have heard that another “For the Watch” is in the works. This time we’re playing For Honor and I intend to maintain my history of success. Before I get into my team of murderers, I want to say a special thank you to the folks at Twitch Prime who sponsored this event. You might have noticed that we’ve been doing a lot more Twitch stuff recently. Someone is streaming from the PA office pretty much every day of the week now. I play games with Tycho on there but I also draw the comic strip live every Tuesday. I’ve really enjoyed drawing on Twitch and chatting with folks in the…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
A midnight launch was not attended, let’s get that out of the way. I have every faith that I would turn into a pumpkin, just like in the old story, where a man is too old and tries to hang with feral-ass youths. How real do you motherfuckers wanna get? I’m typing this post on my phone in the parking lot of Best Buy. Mr. Gribs got up at fuck o’clock and has hardware in his possession; everywhere I’ve been has only power supplies and grey Joy-Cons, storm-toss’d flotsam in the ravenous wake of the Switch. I am so excited that my jaw seems to be locked in the…

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New Comic: Inheritor

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
Pax East is next week and the pins this year are out of control. Let’s start with our partner pins. PARTNER PINS Spidaur, Barbarian, and Cyclops Pins [The Behemoth] Available at The Behemoth Booth #14000 & #14005 Transtar, Volcano, and Nuka Cola Cap Pins [Bethesda Softworks] Available at the Bethesda Booth #20001 & #18007 Panda, Gorilla, and Tiger Pins [Enfu] Available at both PAX Merch Booths. Jason d20 Pin [Bill Amend] Available at the Bill Amend table in Bandland. Guitar Viari Pin [Worldbuilders] Available at the Toonhound Booth #10009 Gwent Troll Pin [CD Projekt…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
This is all a real thing that happened. I’ve been there every day since it launched, in case we were able to play For Honor: For The Watch, and… well, here. Let my friend Kris Straub tell you all about the event, as though it were a Monster Truck Rally: Usually when we do a For The Watch, the game isn’t quite out yet - but For Honor has been out for a minute now, which means that I can build a credible fucking response to Gabriel’s bullshit and I’ve done it. Our new Project Manager Elyssa Grant is going to Project Manage Mike…

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New Comic: Occasionally For Honor

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
I have a whole new appreciation for the art of game design after watching Rodney Thompson and Mike Selinker inspect and construct Thornwatch. I knew I had a cool idea and some genuinely new mechanics but I had hit a wall. Rodney came in and looked at what I had done and saw all the little problems, but more importantly he saw what I wanted the game to do. He cut out old rules that only hurt that game and built new rules to support the Thornwatch I wanted. When Rodney isn’t working at Bungie or helping me design Thornwatch, it turns out he is making his own game! Tycho and I…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
You’ll be playing Horizon: Zero Dawn soon enough here, but since you need to manufacture practically every shot you fire from your weapons, it might be worth keeping an eye on what you’re putting out. Sony’s had fairly strenuous limitations on streaming the product, much more strenuous than you might think for a game whose reviews came out a week ago and are all incredible. I asked them, actually, because I wanted to stream it last Wednesday with Mr. Gribbz. Alas; there are authentic mysteries here, most people still don’t know much about the game,…

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New Comic: Unlucky

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Hey! I backed Banner Saga hard, like, so hard that I got to write a Godstone for the sequel and create an item and stuff. I was asked to help with a promotion for The Banner Saga 3, and I know the second one was a rough ride for the studio so I said yes several times in rapid succession. They said that I could make three to five items for Banner Saga 3, but if I could make five items instead of three, why wouldn’t I do that? So let’s go with five. Also: Twitch Prime is setting up a thing where members can download the original Banner Saga for free through…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Horizon: Zero Dawn comes out on the 28th here in the States, and March 1st in Europe. My feeling is that you should buy it. The introduction has a few very interesting moments, and my daughter Ronia was there for all of them; when the game begins, there any many games it could be. I like the one that it chooses, but they take their time to let things breathe in this unformed space. They allow the center to bake through. Horizon is clung-to by incredibly strange ideas; Ronia doesn’t know much about the game, other than the fact that the protagonist looks like…

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New Comic: Up Top

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