By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I want to emphasize from the outset that I bear these birds no ill will. I am a friend to birds. And I completely understand why they might love my fucking vent: I live in a what is functionally a giant tree, of comparatively cavernous internal volume, and it has a little hole in it which occasionally emits warm, fragrant air. If I made nests, I would make one inside this vent. Like, forthwith. I had rats in my house once, and there is something about the sound of an unseen claw scraping that peels the skin off your head. It could not be less okay. …

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Invasive Species

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I think we’re at the end of Doom now; or, if there is something worse than the thing we’re fighting now, I don’t know how much I want to see it. Jesus Christ, people. If we can pulp this Hell Person, I’m of a mind to head straight back to the main menu and jump into a new campaign. Gabriel has suggested he does not do this; I don’t do it either. The story is so gloriously dumb. Good God. They know it, too. There is a voice on the intercom that sometimes tells you there’s too many demons. It’s not clear what a…

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
Coloring books are a big deal at my house. My wife likes to chill out and color in her Frozen coloring book at night while we watch TV. Obviously my little one likes them too but the reality is that all sorts of people want to color these days. So I thought it might be fun to make a Penny Arcade coloring book and I wanted to see what you all thought of the idea since you would be the ones doing the coloring. I pulled the line art out of some recent comics and Kiko formatted them for optimal coloring. You can download three pages right here, print them out and get your coloring on today!

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Renewables

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By Gabe@penny-arcade.com (Gabe) from Penny Arcade:
DOOM is fantastic. I’m just about done with the single player campaign after putting 8 or so hours into it. I’m already planning on going back and playing it again on a harder difficulty which is something I NEVER do. I’ve read a lot of good stuff about DOOM which makes me super happy but a bunch of the reviews seem to think the multiplayer is no fun. I decided to take a break from the campaign on Saturday and ended up playing multi for three straight hours. I could not stop! I played a bit this afternoon and set up a stream. Here’s the video in case your interested in…

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
There is a completely natural, thoroughly understandable wariness between gaming press and publishers. It’s not just the way it should be, it’s the way it literally is. We have discussed it before, and not that long ago, in this strip and the post which accompanied it. I get codes sometimes, God knows why, but if somebody doesn’t send me a code I don’t come on here and say “mean man no send me code” in a way that isn’t intended as a joke about trying to scam codes. The early codes alone lead to no end of problems from a rhetorical…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Precognition

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I love this show. You should come check it out. (CW)TB

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
Such is my immunity to the Supernatural in general and the show Supernatural in particular that, until the last PAX Aus I wasn’t a hundred percent sure what it was. Jeff Kalles here at the office is a huge fan; I’m sure he would like to rep for all the fans who are not ensorcelled wives. I will allow it. I was on Tumblr enough to see gifs of handsome men in coats smoldering. They would just smolder and smolder, until the heat would warp and bend the monitor. They don’t need to be referred to with any specificity in that realm, where they rule as a…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Supernatural Causes

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By Tycho@penny-arcade.com (Tycho) from Penny Arcade:
I saw Batman v Superman and didn’t hate it as much as I was supposed to. It was mostly confusing, honestly; my first edit pass on this script would have involved a machete. Writing is incredibly cheap, I’ll never understand why you would film that script but I’m typing in the dark up in Seattle and not supine in the blood channels of some Los Angeles ziggurat. Maybe there is something about being drowned in unholy blood that illuminates their decision making process. Maybe I haven’t eaten enough jaguar hearts. Right? If they had taken…

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From Penny Arcade:
New Comic: Schismatic

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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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