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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At The Speed of Hell
The only time I feel bad for not having a newer console is when Housemarque drops something. With a pedigree that goes back to the Amiga, they have developed and honed their taste to Jamon Iberico levels - I wouldn't be surprised if they let their games feed on acorns, free-range. They've perfected arcade feel, itself a kind of
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Saros Thoughts
I think Saros is a super fun game whenever it isn’t trying to tell me whatever this story is. The bullet hell gameplay is really well done and if that’s all the game was I would probably love it, but they have layered in this inscrutable story that I find completely uninteresting and unnecessary. Jerry and I often say that something is “
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At The Speed of Hell
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The Rich Roe of Wisdom
I made a joke about the feeling of being observed somehow by the creators of The Killing Stone, a crack squad of Triple A escapees who keep making the weirdest fucking crap. Deep, deep down there is someone there who knew that they would sell at least one copy of the game -
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Microboned
Discord used to be a tool that I leveraged to communicate with friends and erstwhile allies, but over the years it's increasingly become something like a car up on blocks in my front yard - something to tinker with, absent any prospect or expectation of continuous functionality. I have to constantly remind it that I don't want to use the speaker in my monitor. And mics? "Forget about
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Microboned
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Modernoir
I could link you to a trailer for Assassin's Creed:Black Flag Resynched, but there's a ton of them, and it's safest to just drop you at their YouTube where you can choose from a World Premiere Trailer, an Official Game Overview Trailer, or even the Worldwide Reveal Showcase that clocks in at life a half an hour. It looks fucking
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Modernoir
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DirectInput
I've finally started checking out Pragmata, and it's like the demo, but with a ton more stuff - exactly what you want from "product." It looks sick and for a game asking you to do some Cirque du Soleil shit with your hands it maps to a controller in a way that feels solid. Gabe is playing it on PS5 Pro, the secondary Hacking inputs just map to the face buttons - I figured it would just be an
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DirectInput
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Athena Vibes
When I named the strip, I was thinking about how Athena burst from her father's head - considering the bedevilments we had proposed in the strip. As I woke, I feared that there was a vibrator company called Athena and I was Goddamn right. You know how you can have a party where you sell candles or something to your friends? Right.
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Athena Vibes
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#Fridabe sponsored by Once Upon A Galaxy!
I've taught him everything I know about Once Upon A Galaxy, and now it's time for Dabe to travel into that wilderness alone. Well, not entirely alone. You should go hang out! Day One of this month's tournament just opened up. I don't compete in tournaments generally, I find them scary, but
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Piratical Sabbatical
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Piratical Sabbatical
It sounds like there was some networking shit early on that plagued early adopters, but Windrose - part of a genre we attempt to name in the strip - is something I'd already played a bit during one of Steam's various "Fests." These fests are getting more and more
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Sketch Swap Complete!
I recently finished my side of a “sketch swap” with the incredible Bob Qafter he had already completed his end. Bob and I have very different styles and I think he would agree that it was a difficult task trying to ink and color over the other person’s sketch. From his report, it
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Preparatory School
I have now gotten him to talk about it twice when he wanted to talk about his colon zero or even fewer times. This accrues not to my capacity for manipulation, but rather to the fact that he has been so harrowed body and mind by the experience he is now essentially just a sausage casing with a t-shirt draped over
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Preparatory School
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Kink And Shame
I always preferred Forza Horizon to the traditional Forza, but I never thought that was a compliment to me. I would love to say that I stopped going to church because I had unspun the fundamental philosophies inherent to it, and stood astride it, gleaming like a newly minted God. It's a fiction I'd love to maintain. In the end, I simply couldn't hack it - I was willing to
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