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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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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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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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Is only too terrifyingly real, and the teaser - its agent upon the Earth - can be found here. (CW)TB

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New Comic: The LZ

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New Comic: Performance Anxiety

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I’m a little nervous about the Overwatch competition on Saturday, for all the reasons you would ordinarily be nervous and then a whole host of brand-new, custom fears borne of today’s casual, civic surveillance ecosystem. Something weird happened, where when we started practicing with our teams and playing up a rivalry that was wholly performative in nature, we both started to take it very seriously and it became real. I remembered why we don’t do this, why it’s caustic to our union, and how much harder it makes the manufacturing of jpegs, which are…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I feel like “DILF” as a slab of nomenclature is not hard to figure out, even if you’ve never heard it before. There’s certain types of people you want to F; and I’m not gonna judge. Some of them start with D. Whatever. It’s fine. You know, and maybe there are other Ds you don’t want to F, and that’s fine too. F only those Ds which are the most vaguely rugged in a kind of civilized, wholly untested way. I had a friend of mine over last night to check out some virtual realms, you know, like you do, and I thought…

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
The number of watch related activities I’m participating in at PAX East this year is pretty ridiculous. Overwatch for the Watch Dear Diary, it is three days now until I defeat Tycho at Overwatch. We’ve had some time to practice as a team, and we all really clicked. Erik is a WOW raid leader when he’s off duty and those skills are a real boon for the team. He has demanded we all spend at least 6 hours a day watching tips and strategy videos. Kiko is a stone cold killer and should probably go to real jail for some of the crimes he has committed with a virtual gun. Bill is…

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New Comic: Bumper Crop

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By Brian@penny-arcade.com (Brian) from Penny Arcade:
Brian: PAX East commences this week (!!!). So it is time for the traditional Sharing of the Banner. I’m going to split it up a bit so that you’ll be more likely to tolerate more words as I highlight a few of the items that I am most proud of and/or you might be most excited about. I’ll let you decide which items belong in which category. (Hint: They all belong in both… probably… I mean… I don’t necessarily know you, so I can’t speak to your needs re: your scarf slot.) PAX East Hoodies – We added custom, red zipper tape (that’s a thing) and matching drawstrings to highlight…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Got two for ya, here’s Welcome to PAX: Panels… And here’s Cosplay! Also, just so you know, tickets for PAX South (the show featured in these videos) go on sale May 17! Mark your calendars. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
We went on Vacation! And now we’re back. But Penny Arcade always exists, and in precisely the correct amount. Penny Arcade cannot be created or destroyed. Last Summer, Card Hunter released an update that allowed players to go through the entire campaign in co-op, and it basically reset the clock on my infatuation with it. I loved it from the jump, essentially; a hand-made dungeon crawler with glorious art, its tongue installed firmly in the pocket of the cheek, where you build decks just by equipping the loot you earn. It wasn’t long before it occurred to…

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New Comic: Sundered Spring

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New Comic: Goldman Sacs

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
My house is full of “incredibly advanced technology” which the term no longer applies to. I don’t know if it is quite garbage yet, but it is - bare minimum - garbage adjacent. Some of it is, no doubt, adjacent to the garbage can. One of my prized possessions is a USB cable Robert got me in Japan. From a single USB plug, fully four unique device charging cables emerge. Imagine packing for a trip and knowing that if this one cable was in there, you were set for your PSP, your phone, and a couple different Nintendo handhelds. I still treasure it,…

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
You might have heard - either from me, or my dastardly opposite number Grobriel - that, having made the watch from the strip for reals, we immediately felt compelled to battle for it. Primed by years upon years of gruesome comic imagery we warred for days without ceasing on the lip of an active volcano until we realized we could not finish the other. It was then that we chose our allies, and the shape our conflict would take. Sure. It may look to all outside observers as though we’re running a campaign of some kind for Overwatch. It may even be true (it is…

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