By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
My associate Gabreazy-E was trying to engage is some kind of mystical measuring contest with Gandalf, who was called Olórin. If being a bad-ass is in any way a function of how many names you have, Gandalf is probably gonna win - even if he is just a fighter.. Super Important Info, at least, if you’re into that kind of thing: You may have heard of our fork-tender D&D Twitch Offering, Acquisitions Incorporated: The “C” Team. But did you know that my friend Mike Krahulik is running the game this Thursday? No? How about NOW WA-CHOW…

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New Comic: Reductionism

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Starting at 2:00pm PDT, we’re back at it again with the second of three sponsored streams for Gigantic. I like games that can’t be easily expressed as X + Y, and I also like games that learn from their betas, and all of that stuff is happening here. We had a a lot of fun last time talking with wizened-ass back-end platform sorcerer Alex, who makes sure your XP goes into the right bins. We have two guests today, so Josh had to modify the couch. It’s cool! Worth it. We’ve got Game Designer Henry Martinez and Environment Artist Tomas Gomez in…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Oh! It ended up being another Zelda strip. I wasn’t sure how much we’d get out of the first pack, but apparently it’s almost a week of comics. This is probably a strong indication of the Pro-Zelda bias Gabriel is leaking into the writing room. Somehow I ended up getting back into VR pretty heavily. Not somehow, I guess. Some would suggest that “things which occur in a specified locale are, optimally speaking, best retained in the confines of that space.” But it didn’t work that way, this time. The things that happen in…

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
I was looking back through some of my old Thornwatch design docs the other day and saw that the earliest one was created back in September of 2012. Now I’m working on the cover of the game and I feel like I’m finally getting to ice a cake I’ve been baking for five years. It’s hard to describe just how exciting it is to see all these components coming together. In addition to Kiko and Dabe here at Penny Arcade, I also have the help of Liz Spain and Skylar Woodies over at Lone Shark games all plugging away on the graphic design. Check out how rad this game is looking! Our player…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Discretionary Heroism

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
We’ve held summer events to help support Child’s Play in the past but this year’s is unique. We’ve still got Ping Pong for you die hards, but we’ve also structured it to be more of a family friendly event. How so? Well for starters there is a bouncey house! We are calling this our Summer Faire and Table Tennis Tournament and it’s coming up on July 22nd. We really do want this to be something you can bring the family to and play some games while you learn a bit about what Child’s Play does and how your donations help. It should be an awesome (kid friendly) day! You can find all…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I have a list, in the McCarthyite sense, except it doesn’t concern the communist foes of America. It’s more about the linguistic crimes of word villains. I feel that something like EverRoast doesn’t happen at random, can’t happen at random. It’s an act of conscious aggression that wobbles atop a Jengan framework of tributary evils. I had no choice but to act. In the way there are Black Hats and White Hats in the security space, I fancy myself a White Hat in the sense that I revere a kind of sanctity in language and that reverence…

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New Comic: That Which Can Eternal Roast

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Our exquisite Josh is sick, and Tuesday is some kind of America thing. I’m going to try not to think about work tomorrow (and fail miserably). (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I guess we’ll see if something can top it, but I’m pretty sure The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is Gabe’s favorite game of the year and might even be his favorite game ever. “Open World” by way of Nintendo is a rare sort of creature. The first DLC just dropped, and watching how he’s traversed the place over the last hundred hours or so was fascinating for him. There’s places he’s never managed to be funneled into, places that have somehow remained persistently dark, even though they’re completely accessible, just…

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New Comic: The Bone Zone

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Black Panther was one of the best parts of Civil War, I just… I bought into him completely. He stands outside the rest of the established power structures in a way that exposes them as weird-ass pageants. 100% gonna watch this movie. One of the things that the projection of traditionally niche media into the mainstream is that there are things that make sense in its own original context of high-flung psychodrama that can’t necessarily survive the state change. Watchmen cut that raw material like a gem, trading on mythological and psychological themes. It…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Black Panther was one of the best parts of Civil War, I just… I bought into him completely. He stands outside the rest of the established power structures in a way that exposes them as weird-ass pageants. 100% gonna watch this movie. One of the things that the projection of traditionally niche media into the mainstream is that there are things that make sense in its own original context of high-flung psychodrama that can’t necessarily survive the state change. Watchmen cut that raw material like a gem, trading on mythological and psychological themes. It…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Calorie Dense

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
At long last! The long road that started with the “Bring Automata To Life” Kickstarter is nearing its end. Download links to watch the show have been sent out to backers. Would you like to see the trailer? Huh? Wouldja?! I want to thank the backers who made this possible, the dedicated cast that made it real, and the team at Vantage Point that hauled this thing over the finish line. Excited to see what we can do next. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Playing games with Gabriel, as I have for many years, involves a certain cadence. Around ten o’clock at night the action must pause while he obtains and then noisily processes snacks of various kinds. Historically, it was Oreos. (An aside. Looking at the word, I wonder if there is some kind of Oreo stickler, akin to the Lego stickler. As in: when I go to the official site, a cursory examination does not turn up the word “Oreos” at all. Oreo Sandwich Cookies, sure. This never occurred to me before.) His consumption of this caloric form…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Medicinal

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
The Mario Marathon has been marathonning Mario in support of Child’s Play for a thousand Earth years. Now they’re getting into the home stretch on their 2017 run, with some Super Mario Sunshine. Check ‘em out! (CW)TB

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: The Last Guardian

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