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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Novellas Dropping 7/30!
They're all done, laid out, and made beautiful by the design team, but the store aspect - and making sure Kickstarter Backers get theirs cleanly - has to be made perfect. So! On Tuesday, prepare yourself mentally and physically for a pair of tender novellae about Omin and Jim, which is to say "Ominifis Hereward Dran" and "James Winifred Darkmagic The Third."
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#FriDabe
Gonna jump into the channel and check out some cool stuff with Dabe - Go Mecha Ball, Kunitsu-Gami, and more!
(CW)TB
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The Worst Descendant
The First Descendant has its claws in me and I can’t escape. Early this week I was engaged in an activity called Outpost farming. These open world events were on a five minute timer. Essentially a bunch of monsters spawn at a given location every five minutes and after defeating them a
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Boss Hog
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Boss Hog
The First Descendant has emerged from the novelty phase, the will they or won't they phase, and now it appears to have truly entered the rotation. Sometimes called "Warframe But Your Face Doesn't Look Like A Bug," to hear our own Gabriel tell it it's a game where when they patch something most of the time you're happy to see it. For example: in the
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The Debut Novel
As I suggested on Twitter, I wrote the last line - so feel any kind of way about him that you didn't feel already. I knew exactly what he was talking about, because I have seen this be-bearded gentleman in all his guises - every finger of that extradimensional entity, pushed through the membrane of reality.
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The Debut Novel
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Nightlight, Grace
Jerry mentioned Sand in his most recent news post but another multipart series started this week 9 years ago. Our story “Grace” is a Nightlight tale and you can get started with part 1
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Sand
Specifically, the comic. I saw via Design's perpetually delightful "Feeling Nostalgic" section that it had run about eleven years ago this week, but the initial page actually ran a couple years before. That was sort of a busy time for us! It took
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My Novellas Come Out This Week!
Very soon, indeed this very week, I am releasing two novellas - indeed, two versions of the same novella. One as a fantasy adventure, and one as a fantasy adventure that is also a romance. We're gonna start digital; if it was good enough for MIke's living god Hugh "Wool" Howey, it's good enough for me. They'll be available right
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Antisocial Media
I left Social Media a few months ago and I don’t regret it at all. Twitter has always been a weird place but after it was purchased by Ebon Husk it became a true cesspool. Out of morbid curiosity I looked at what was trending this morning and it’s some of the most vile, psychotic
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Actual, Factual
He doesn't know about shit! I can't even imagine the comfort. In the end, I suspect it mostly leaves him with more time to grapple internal demons. He doesn't know about Hawk Tuah. Poor Hawk Tuah! She had a whole thing happening, and then the world reconfigured itself twice in about a week. I should check her socials, make
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Succor
There are two videos for the new Worlds 1 update for No Man's Sky, one in a more traditional vein and one where Sean Murray physically opens his ribcage and bares his soul:
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Succor
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Terminal
Was I able to get Gabe to draw a Neurotyrant? Yes. Time was, this would have been a fraught proposition - but these days he has tons of Adeptus Astartes and Death Guard and Tyranids and Tau and all kindsa shit going on over there. A lot of it is even painted! I know, right? Wow. But also, I'm not sure we've had a
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Terminal
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August Sticker Pack Preview!
It looks like Club PA members are starting to get their July sticker packs! This pack included the stackable ice cream as well as Motorcycle Helmet Tycho. I’m excited to
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Descenders
Steam has a running tally of Gabriel's accomplishments in The First Descendant, and I don't doubt that they represent true valor in the war against whoever that guy was in the intro I played. I'm not a hundred percent sure what some of these things mean, though; it says he's completed ten Void Intercept battles, which seems like a nice round number.
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Tales from The First Descendant
It’s true I’m still hooked on The First Descendant but I haven’t actually tried to push it on any of my friends or family. I think it’s a game you have to come to on your own and decide for yourself if you like it or not. I only played it because it was free and because I like to at least try as
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