By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
The Division is what I’m waiting for now. I try not to do shit like this but believe me 100% when I say that I scammed a code for this game, and technically I could have started playing at five or so this morning when the servers went on, but I think I was still drunk from the night before. I’m trying to download it here at the office for some kind of possible interaction with it, but it’s hard to say what this attempt will actually result in. I don’t want to complain about the speed with which I access a, like, global information infrastructure from the…

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Now that we’ve moved everything there’s just this hole in the office where Virtual Reality will exist. It’s strange in some respects that we’re going to “fill” that volume with intangible places, overwriting the zone with a polymorphic suite of sensory data, but it’s true. It has to stay empty so it can remain empty physically but be colonized by alien stimuli and the occasional whatever Gabe wants to do in there. The virtumal porns that I’ve seen, primarily on the Gear VR - a device which I maintain has a unique and compelling…

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
It’s funny that at an event clearly designed to focus attention on Microsoft’s unified Windows platform and their designs for the PC in general, an off the cuff remark from Phil Spencer about upgrading the hardware on the Xbox One became the takeaway. Not funny for them, I imagine! My suspicion is that news about unannounced and unavailable upgrades to another platform were not the intended payload. I unplugged the Xbox and spun it around in the air, trying to figure out where you would put it. Came up with nothing. The first thing Gabriel thought was,…

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
Is there something you would like our opinion on? Something you’d like to know, something you could ask anyone, but you’d like ME to say the answer for some reason, bookended by scandalous f-words? Here is your opportunity - our form awaits your Qs. (CW)TB

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SuperHOT bangs like Lester.

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We’re thinking about mixing up one of our annual events - what do you think? We used to do a more traditional format a long time ago, but there’s a ton of incredible players around here and it would be cool to smash them against each other. (CW)TB

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
You might recall that our own Gabrak is set to volunteer at camp; counselor orientation just wrapped up and I am given to understand it was suffused with the ancient wisdom. I suggested when I was talking about fighting games before - and how it’s okay for them to disregard, essentially, someone who isn’t actually part of their audience - that there’s a rhythm under the surface of the genre that I can’t perceive. Then, I said that David Sirlin had made a career of simulating various aspects of fighting games as boardgames. I also said that I had a similar…

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
Because I liked The Division, aside from one or two things I’m perfectly able to live with because I’m aware of what it means to live in a finite universe, I had assumed that Gabriel would not like it. That’s typically how this sort of thing shakes out. But not this time! Its starting to look like we might play (and potentially even enjoy) the same game at the same time. I think that The Division will be around a long time, both as a product but also in terms of its ideas being absorbed generally into other games; it might not always feel like it does…

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
As I have suggested previously, one of the supernatural benefits of Club PA membership is and exclusive comic and “postito” each month. I occasionally then preview that month’s comic for you, like so: Not a lot of info there, to be sure. It’s about Monthly Crates, if that helps. Plus, it contains perhaps the most disgusting panel in our ouvre. Whether that constitutes an incentive or a disincentive is up to you! (CW)TB

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By Tycho from Penny Arcade:
My primary means of interacting with fighting games these days is watching the output of serious players. I feel like I understand what is happening in a round of LoL - I know the tiny part of a spiral that is writ large when the best players interact with it. The moment to moment aspects of a Fighting Game though, like an RTS, are opaque to me. That isn’t to say I don’t enjoy trying to even find those primary shapes, and to discover their colors and contours, but I’m one hundred percent on some preschool shit as the metaphor would suggest. There is a card…

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We have it downloading on the PS4 now, the one here in the office, and it is my intention to frown the entire time he plays it. What’s funny about this scenario is that Kiko determines what system he is going to play a multiplayer game on based exclusively on whether or not he can use the Xbox Elite Controller, which is currently only available for one system, but I guess that could change at some point. I didn’t see any reason to go into it when they weren’t even available for purchase, but the truth is that there isn’t much to talk about. If you can…

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Gabriel and the other, actual Gabriel - The Gabriel currently contained within the parenthesis of the first - have been delighted by a game called ADIOS, which is the clever truncation of Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space. It’s always funny to me when he rolls up on something like this, something I would consider “my” kind of game, and then starts regaling me with it. I don’t even know how he’s stumbled onto this shit, weirdo shit, as private to me as the inner surface of my eyelid, but of course he’s playing this stuff on the Playstation 4 and not…

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