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The Great Game

By Tycho – December 11, 2013

I don't feel like Age has distributed itself throughout my person in a uniform way. I feel like my aorta probably got the worst of it, its calcified accruals metering blood in strict measure. I would apologize to it if I thought it had any conception of my treachery. The only thing I can do now is to try and avoid reading articles about the shit my government gets up to without a couple pensive, preparatory breaths.

Streaming Hot

By Gabe – December 10, 2013

Gonna play some Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer tonight and I'll go ahead and stream. You will be able to watch right here and even join in on the chat.

Child's Play dinner

By Gabe – December 9, 2013

The Child’s Play Charity dinner was last week and I had an incredible time. This year Scott and Kris took over hosting duties and I was a big fan. Since I wasn’t on stage this was the first year I actually got to sit at a table and eat dinner with my friends and family. I enjoy running the auction but I have to say actually attending the dinner is pretty awesome.

Who wore it best?

By Gabe – December 9, 2013

My wife will deny it but she reads US magazine sometimes. I will occasionally find them in the house and thumb through them to see what Kim and Kanye are up to or if Miley really did that thing I heard about. They do this thing called “Who Wore It Best?” where they catch two celebrities wearing the same clothes and then ask their style experts to vote on who wore it best. Why am I telling you this bullshit?

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Dickerdoodles 2013

By Gabe – December 9, 2013

It is that time of year again. No I’m not talking about Christmas. I’m talking about Dickerdoodles!

Game of the Year

By Gabe – December 9, 2013

I didn’t watch the VGX awards live but I checked out all the coverage online after the event. When it comes to awards you’re never going to get everyone to agree. Even knowing that, I have to say I was really surprised at some of their decisions. I’m not going to go category by category but I figured I’d talk about game of the year.

Subtlety

By Tycho – December 9, 2013

The Child's Play Charity Dinner & Auction balled out of control. Scott and Kris (yes, that Scott and Kris) handled the auction itself, and well; my customary princess wave was not required. I just talked to people, actually talked to them because I had the opportunity, and tried to deflect the greater part of their gratitude for Child's Play onto you.

Changes

By Tycho – December 6, 2013

The 18th of last month was Penny Arcade's 15th Anniversary.

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PA Merch

By Gabe – December 6, 2013

I’m still trying to take care of all my Christmas shopping and you might be in the same boat. If you are looking to the Penny Arcade store for your Christmas gift needs I should point out that today is the cut off day for items shipped first class international to arrive before the 25th. You can see the rest of the shipping deadlines over on the front page of the PA store.

Incorporated

By Tycho – December 6, 2013

Once Assassin's Creed 3 entered canon, it became possible to have a pretty sophisticated philosophical conversation about the setting. That's the one people don't like, of course; the one with the best twist, the one that drops the mask. The one that makes you understand at the edge of a knife that your entire conception of the narrative is essentially propaganda.

I beat some games

By Gabe – December 5, 2013

I don’t beat most of the games I play. It’s partly because I play so many games. I’m usually jumping to a new game before I’ve completed the last. I also have a short attention span and it takes a lot for a game to hold my interest until the very end. I’m telling you this because I actually beat three games just in the last week or so. What are they and why did I stick with them?

Them There End Days

By Tycho – December 4, 2013

We've had a lot of conversations about "privacy" as a cultural value, because we are staffed by huge dorks who have become cyborgs to some extent. Certainly, in the strip, we declare that concerns in this vein are the sole purview of unmedicated psychotics, but that's obviously not true. Issues of privacy today are incredibly complex, and speaking from my own experience, the more engineering knowledge you have the more freaked these kinds of things make you.

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Don't Cross the Streams!

By Gabe – December 4, 2013

So a new game called Tiny Brains hit the PS4 today. It is apparently a puzzle game with some cool looking visuals. I'm going to fire it up tonight at 9:00pm PST. That's about a half hour from right now. This is my first time playing it or even seeing it and I'll go ahead and stream my session.

Child's Play

By Gabe – December 3, 2013

The Child’s play Charity dinner/auction is coming up on Thursday and I wanted to mention one of the items I donated this year.

Cyber Monday

By Gabe – December 2, 2013

It’s Cyber Monday! We’ve speculated that tomorrow could be Tech Tuesday followed by Web-sday, Internet Thursday and Wi-Friday.

Window Of Opportunity

By Tycho – December 2, 2013

I was surprised to learn that Gabriel's experience with Ghosts mirrored my own, because it's not like he was bad at it before, yet he's still feeling the energizing benefits of the platform shift. There are a couple things going on, though, and I know what the other ones are now.