Read Penny Arcade, video game referencing webcomics

Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The strip features Krahulik and Holkins' cartoon alter egos, John "Gabe" Gabriel and Tycho Brahe, respectively. Their characters spend much of the time playing and commenting on computer and video games, which forms much of the basis of the humor in the strip. As mostly a topical video gaming news comic series, there is little plot or general continuity in Penny Arcade strips, and strips are typically drawn from the perspective of fictional characters within a game or movie.

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1. Out Of The Loup

   New Comic: Out Of The Loup

2. Hot For Dots

   I'm heading down to PAX East now, maybe you are too, but I know a lot of people who make games there and I gotta ask them how in the fuck they're doing what they did in that GTA VI trailer. I didn't understand how they did the first one, and I'm even less able to get this one dialed in.

3. Hot For Dots

   New Comic: Hot For Dots

4. Regional Manager

   I finally got to what Gabe has been dying to talk to me about in Clair Obscur, and now I know why he wanted to talk to me about it so bad. That it still has serious things to reveal coming up on fifty hours is cool, but the things it goes into are gobsmacking. No part of the gob has remained unsmacked - it's barely recognizable as a gob at all.

5. My New Marvel Snap Variants!

   I did another batch of Marvel Snap cards and at the end of this week during PAX East they will arrive in the game! Since they have already been revealed I figured it was okay to share the original art. So here’s a look at my five new Snap Variants:

    

    

6. Regional Manager

   New Comic: Regional Manager

7. The Revolution Will Be Televised

   If they had dripped those first three episodes of Andor Season 2 out, the community would be in crisis. I understand what they were trying to do, because some aspects of it get unfolded in the second three episode arc - which is excellent and is exactly what I want. But those first three feel mostly like setup, sawdust in the flour,

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8. The Revolution Will Be Televised

   New Comic: The Revolution Will Be Televised

9. We Create Worlds

   All of these things more or less happened when we were playing Sunderfolk and the amount I can get away with as honorary Uncle is profound. Profound!

10. We Create Worlds

    New Comic: We Create Worlds

11. Buy This Game

    When Gabriel told me that he hadn't skipped a single cutscene in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I sat bolt upright. Well, I slouched less - let's say that. But when he told me he was walking around and initiating dialogue with random NPCs, just to stretch it out like so many Caramellos, that's when I did the thing I said I had

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12. Buy This Game

    New Comic: Buy This Game

13. My Sunderfolk and Expedition 33 impressions

    Over the last couple of days I’ve checked out two games that were not even on my radar a few weeks ago and I now love. I figured I’d pop in here and give you my quick impressions of Sunderfolk and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. 

     

14. Gloom Having

    Gabriel's family, stuffed as it is with gamers, boardgamers, and wargamers of all stripes, seems uniquely subject to what Sunderfolk is trying to do.

15. Gloom Having

    New Comic: Gloom Having

16. Yes Doz

    I was delighted to see Indiana Jones and The Great Circle hit Playstation for a few reasons - one, it should always have been a Playstation game. This was a weird one to hold back. Two, the time I've spent with Dabe playing it is some of the most fun I've had this year so far. It's just incredibly thoughtful and has an ongoing franchise play written all over it. Three, I suspected that the PS

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17. Yes Doz

    New Comic: Yes Doz

18. Lore Drop

    Long ago, what YouTube tells me is Seven Years Ago, Gabe ran an episode of my old Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team show. Called simply Jimterlude, because it was a Mike Krahulik DM Experience Tee Em, of course it involved an incredibly elaborate, fully functional board

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19. Lore Drop

    New Comic: Lore Drop

20. You've Got A Fast Car

    Steam must have this motherfucker dialed in. Gabe is obsessed with self-published indie weirdness in fiction, and discovered tons of hot shit before it got optioned and made into movies. No doubt his predilection toward pervert horseshit has steered his algo to wash up all manner of strange treasure upon his shore, and the latest is the one he was just telling you about a couple days ago - ...