Like a baby chick, Gabriel has imprinted on the Switch somehow. The first party roster - a melange of extended re-releases, reimaginings of franchise pillars, sequels, and a game where your arms are violent Slinkies - has already claimed well over two hundred and fifty hours of playtime.
Dumber Camp, Part Three
Thus concludes Part 3 of Dumber Camp, unless we uncover some new memory we've suppressed. He tells me this is a true story, and I don't doubt him at all. I don't think they even tried to send him to any more summer camps.
Dumber Camp, Part Two
I have every faith that I've said something very much like if not identical to the last line in the strip. I could apologize, I guess, but I'm not 100% sure it isn't true.
Here They Are - Your PAX 10!
We always offer a space for especially for indies with the PAX 10 - our cadre of experts selects their favorites from the submitted titles, and the chosen games get free booth space at the show. We're proud to announce the list! Here is the link to the official page, but they are also right here! Use whichever links you want. They all go to the same places!
Dumber Camp, Part One
I have been left completely and entirely alone, abandoned by my Mork, such that he left me with four or so .jpegs and flew away. Mechanically assisted, obviously. He didn't just "throw himself at the ground and miss."
PAX South Badges Are Available!
I like all the PAX shows, but PAX South is one of the shows where people bring me beef jerky so it definitely earns a few extra points. I eat pounds and pounds of jerky at night in bed while I watch The Town with Ben Affleck. It's an incredible convention, on and off the showfloor.
Gardinex
Destiny 2 is - I don't think this is a spoiler, because it's the whole point of the game - the part where the hero drags themselves up out of the Underworld. I suspect you won't drag yourself up for very long; optimally, the buttons on your controller do things in a game, though there are some notable iconoclasts.
Irrepairable
Having made a reality show myself, I'm aware that they don't project an authentic truth necessarily. You can change quite a bit about how something is perceived when you alter all the context that surrounds it, or do things in a different order. For example: I didn't come up with the idea that contestants in Strip Search should pin up their winning comics until, I think, the third Artist Battle. So, we just filmed them doing that as though it had always been done. We wove lies into a kind of textile. Your brain just sort of fills in the mortar.
Sub-Prime
I think we wrote something like six comics yesterday; I didn't even have time to engage in base and tawdry mercantilsms. Though I may be the only one; sounds like it was a pretty good day for them. And Gabriel's thumb was swiping all throughout the writing process, ever-swiping, in search of potentially orthagonal values.
Penny Arcade Plays: WARMACHINE
We and Privateer Press are trying to figure out who's from our Sponsored Stream is playing at their Lock & Load event. Right now, there's a three way tie between myself (Menoth), Erick (Cryx), and Jamie (Cygnar, a.k.a., the Goddamn Swans).
Reductionism
My associate Gabreazy-E was trying to engage is some kind of mystical measuring contest with Gandalf, who was called Olórin. If being a bad-ass is in any way a function of how many names you have, Gandalf is probably gonna win - even if he is just a fighter..
Penny Arcade Presents: GIGANTIC
Starting at 2:00pm PDT, we're back at it again with the second of three sponsored streams for Gigantic. I like games that can't be easily expressed as X + Y, and I also like games that learn from their betas, and all of that stuff is happening here.
Discretionary Heroism
Oh! It ended up being another Zelda strip. I wasn't sure how much we'd get out of the first pack, but apparently it's almost a week of comics. This is probably a strong indication of the Pro-Zelda bias Gabriel is leaking into the writing room.
Thornwatch Update!
I was looking back through some of my old Thornwatch design docs the other day and saw that the earliest one was created back in September of 2012. Now I’m working on the cover of the game and I feel like I’m finally getting to ice a cake I’ve been baking for five years. It’s hard to describe just how exciting it is to see all these components coming together. In addition to Kiko and Dabe here at Penny Arcade, I also have the help of Liz Spain and Skylar Woodies over at Lone Shark games all plugging away on the graphic design. Check out how rad this game is looking!
Child's Play Summer Fun!
We’ve held summer events to help support Child’s Play in the past but this year’s is unique. We’ve still got Ping Pong for you die hards, but we’ve also structured it to be more of a family friendly event. How so? Well for starters there is a bouncey house! We are calling this our Summer Faire and Table Tennis Tournament and it’s coming up on July 22nd. We really do want this to be something you can bring the family to and play some games while you learn a bit about what Child’s Play does and how your donations help. It should be an awesome (kid friendly) day! You can find all the details and buy your tickets right here on the CP site.
That Which Can Eternal Roast
I have a list, in the McCarthyite sense, except it doesn't concern the communist foes of America. It's more about the linguistic crimes of word villains. I feel that something like EverRoast doesn't happen at random, can't happen at random. It's an act of conscious aggression that wobbles atop a Jengan framework of tributary evils. I had no choice but to act.