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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Patential
I think you sorta have to read the patent that Nintendo was granted to understand the whole thing, but as a generality broad patents preemptively constrain possibility and so I oppose them. Also, the people who seem to grant patents don't seem to know anything about anything; they're like newly hatched chicks for whom all the world constitutes wonder and novelty. The early Internet was full
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Patential
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Deadheads
It goes without saying that the Deadzone is dangerous. It's not a preferred zone. If it had any other redeeming characteristics, we would be calling it something else. Still, when you shoot an enemy's weakpoint, the game makes a sound like a river of coins flowing from a garish slot machine. Whoever made it sound this
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Deadheads
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Hollowgram
I thought Hollow Knight looked cool when Gabe was playing it on the couch about a million years ago; I have a memory that I might have made up of him using some kind of bug-oriented fast travel mechanism inside a big tunnel. He bounced off it, ultimately, so hard that he didn't even remember playing it. Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Hollowgram
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Fresh Kicks
After Jasmine and Gabe both pushed Deadzone: Rogue on me in the same weekend, and because it's twenty five bucks, I crumbled quickly beneath this assault on heart and mind. There aren't surprises on the surface; it's gonna do exactly what it said it was gonna do. Then you fall into the loop. Part of
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Habitats
The last time I tried to write about the censorship of content on Steam and elsewhere, I proved unsuited to the task. Well, that may be a matter for debate. Maybe you would have liked what I wrote. Gabe certainly would have liked it; that's part of why I didn't post it. Let me try this again, in the mode of
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What I'm Playing
I am back home after another great PAX West. Thank you to everyone who came to our various Penny Arcade panels and events over the course of the weekend. I am confident that someday Jerry and I will walk on stage for a panel and find a completely empty room, but that day is not today!
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Clientele
Here's the strip from the make a strip panel at PAX West 2025, to celebrate a new vendor I'm really excited about. In other news, Ronia wants to get Alien tattoos together when she turns 18; she wants me to get the xenomorph and her to get the facehugger, because "that's the baby." I'm weirdly touched by it. We must consider that
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Clientele
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The Name of The Wind (Greg)
What we can say for certain is that the eighties were a very interesting time for cross-cultural product. Gabe's verdict on Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance is that it kicks ass, and he says the demo is super hefty. Usually if he likes a demo, he'll just stop playing it -
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The Name of The Wind (Greg)
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PAX West 2025 Catalog!
I just got the pages, and the Design Team has of course killed it. Keep an eye out for the Blue Circles - those are the ones that will be available at our relaunched store.penny-arcade.com very soon! The incredible Metro Jackets are an online exclusive this year because of a shipping issue, but we'll have them to try on at the show and they will ship free!
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Unphased
My criminality is well known, in lexical circles - my base contempt for the tyranny of accepted nomenclature always on display. I'm the joker/smoker/midnight toker of not spelling things correctly. But I have a very complex and yet absolutely wrong reason for why "phase" means "faze," just completely made up, and yet internally consistent enough to stay lodged there with primacy over
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Gundammit
A lot has to go right to get a new TCG going in your friend group. It's like founding a new religion, or maybe a terror cell - you need to make firm believers of them, and fast. They need to see the face of God instantly and hurl all doubts into a cleansing flame. You can always fall back on Magic the way you would D&D or, I don't know, Catholicism? These are proven brands that have stood
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Gundammit
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