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. The Urdspine

   Level-5 is a legendary outfit that just drops bar after bar and has for a quarter century. My initial plan was to be, like, "Here are the games they have made which ended up being super meaningful to me," but when I looked at the list there were way too many - but Ni no

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2. The Urdspine

   New Comic: The Urdspine

3. Dadcore

   New Comic: Dadcore

4. Dadcore

   You can now kick it with Darth Vader in Fortnite, which filled the weekend with bizarre audiovisual snacks, but nothing like what we saw at

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5. Emerald Assault

   I think Doom: The Dark Ages is really, really good. I also think there's no reason to review it in the classic sense. This is not to denigrate it or to say that it possesses undetectable levels of virtue, so any attempt to access it isn't required. No! I say thee nay. It's like Kellog's trying to seek a Michelin star for a Pringle. It has plain, universal virtues that don't require any fine

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6. Emerald Assault

   New Comic: Emerald Assault

7. Parts Per Million

   Whether something is a review or review bombing is purely rhetorical; the color of the dress is based on a bunch of stuff you believed before the thing in question ever happened. It's essentially a kind of intellectual pose, an inoculation against new information, the implementation of a kind of mental hygiene. At

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8. Parts Per MIllion

   New Comic: Parts Per MIllion

9. Mid-Air Concession

   My mind can do a couple neat tricks; this site is a kind of display case for the one or two novel maneuvers I got up top. One thing it definitely cannot do is know whether I'm going to be hungry or not hungry for a specific food at a particular time in the future. I can turn a blank sheet of paper into a place you can journey to but if a feat of imagination involves ...

10. Mid-Air Concession

    New Comic: Mid-Air Concession

11. Out Of The Loup

    For those of you not in the know, a streamer named Dr. Lupo - we played Amogus with him for charity! - admitted to cheating in a chess tournament. I don't think I would enter a

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12. PSVR2 + iRacing

    I spent the last couple of days working on getting my sim racing rig set up again and I took this opportunity to attempt a new VR solution. I was curious if I could get my PSVR2 headset working with iRacing on my PC. The TLDR is yes it can be done and it looks great! 

     

13. Out Of The Loup

    New Comic: Out Of The Loup

14. 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.

15. Hot For Dots

    New Comic: Hot For Dots

16. 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.

17. 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:

     

     

18. Regional Manager

    New Comic: Regional Manager

19. 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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20. The Revolution Will Be Televised

    New Comic: The Revolution Will Be Televised