By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
Last year I had the opportunity to pitch some work to the Pokemon company. It didn’t end up coming to anything but it was a real honor just to be considered. They wanted to see my take on some starters, a trainer and a Pikachu. I’m really proud of the work and even though it didn’t turn into anything, I wanted to share the illustrations. You can click on any of these for a large version. -Gabe Out

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Of course, I have every intention of being diplomatic about things like this, but as is sometimes said, there is another. Or, you might say “always two there are.” Technically, they’re both Yoda lines I guess. Thanks, Yoda. I needed a way to communicate an idea succinctly, and everywhere I turned, you were there. Battleborn is another case of Rowling’s Syndrome, where you’ve made something incredible previously, and it’s placed you beyond all earthly bounds so Nobody Can’t Tell You Nothing and your books get super, super…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Dialectic

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
PAX South is, coincidentally, the show currently featured in the Welcome To PAX series. Here’s the latest episode, “Tournaments.” (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Gabriel killed the art in this comic. Holy shit. I even called him to tell him so. On a weekend. I think it’s entirely possible that a lot of people are done with Call of Duty. I have been buying them, but playing each successive one less, to the extent that I’ll probably just play something else this holiday. Probably Destiny II, or whatever they’re gonna call it. I mean, Activision doesn’t care; they still get paid. Having all the dislikes on your video doesn’t necessarily mean people won’t buy it. There is a very…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Engagement Index

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Sometimes you need to rely upon the kindness of strangers, or perhaps their unkindness, directed toward the weird, alien snout of the foe. Snout, or beak, or whatever. Some fucked up alien face thing. One never knows what they’re going to get in this context, we’ve discussed it. Then again, there was one time where we hadn’t gotten all the way through Vault of Glass on hard yet and we needed a sixth, so we picked one up, and this motherfucker basically taught us how to do the whole thing single-handedly. Materially speaking, he had been matched with…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Nuance

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Here’s the link if you want to tune in, which is an old person term that means “watch.” (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
The word Snarf - by itself! - is enough to make me forget the trials and exhaustion of consciousness, if only for a little while. Today’s comic is another installment of Real Conversation Theatre, where myself and my compatriot have and then subsequently immortalize the conversations that make Kara laugh when we’re playing Destiny. Also: the new Strike is really short and it’s hard not to call the new boss Maalox. So we call him Maalox, basically. We’ve got fork-tender new videos from our Welcome To PAX series up today, starting with Indies: And…

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New Comic: Crossover Potential

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
which is its actual name, and not Offworld Trading Colony like I kept saying before. In any case, I think I’m gonna try to set up a stream with OTC designer Soren Johnson, the spelling of whose name I just checked several times, where he can teach me (and maybe you) how to play a game whose genetics differ so substantially from the norm. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’m not trying to be mean in any way, here. I played the Offworld Trading Company a bunch of times before I ever finished a game. I would start, building a couple things, and then stop. I skidded entirely off its hot, non-stick griddle. I need to be completely honest with you: I could not perceive the game. I can remember playing Sacred Warrior’s “Master’s Command” for my mom, and she had a similar problem. I very nearly wrote deficiency, which is mostly a rude way to say the same thing. But mapping Heavy Metal into the musical…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Taking Stock

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
As a post-PAX digestif, Alienation has nobly provided ample spent shell casings and gouts of ropey, gastrointestinal slime. Housemarque has been a reliable amusement spigot for some time, producing good flow, though my favorite game from them was probably Super Stardust HD which Kiko and I played obsessively until completion which is a feat I’m absurdly proud of for some reason. They like lots and lots of particles to happen, and I like that also. It has a Helldivers type thing, the primary difference (from a moment to moment play perspective; they each embroider their…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Escape Is Impossible

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
It’s possible that we just don’t get Paragon; it’s also possible there’s nothing there to get. The aesthetic is so dry and clean that it’s hard to find purchase on it. You slip off of it, and fly away. Because I know there are Kingkiller Chronicle enthusiasts among you - we are counted in this number also, regardless of any comics we might have made - I thought you might want to know about the Tak Kickstarter. That is, of course, a game people play inside his books, the way players of Wakfu and Dofus used to play Krosmaster until Krosmaster…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Opposite Day

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
The D&D game we played on Sunday was bonkers. We flipped the script so to speak and I took over the DM seat from Chris Perkins who played as Drizzt Do’Urden. I ran an hour long game and then handed the reigns to my friend Patrick Rothfuss who finished out the evening. We did all of this live on stage in front of a few thousand folks with another twenty thousand (at least) watching on Twitch. You can watch it right here. I’d like to take a second here and thank you all once again for my ridiculous job. I played my very first game of Dungeons and Dragons in 2008 and I did it on a…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Gabriel didn’t need to subject me to grievous injury; I managed to lose while being ostensibly whole of mind and body. I have spent too much time thinking about my failure in Overwatch; the best thing for clarity’s sake would be just to share with you the Google doc I actively maintain at all hours of the day but it’s full of dark oaths and teammate-specific seething and I may need to call on one or more of them again - even if its just as food. It’s best, perhaps, if this information remains confidential. In general, though, in general, the show was the best…

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