It is now the 18th, the last day for domestic Priority Mail, also known as the final sane shipping option.

The Vault of Winter, Module 5 is now available for feasting purposes. Get your choppers filed up and go crazy on them shitz!

Word from Brian is that the Penny Arcade store is being brutalized by the vigor of your holiday shopping.

Rejoice perverts, it’s Dickerdoodle season again!

Vault of Winter, Module 4: Blood On The Gate

Although Guide should probably be in quotation marks. The game has a dogged, uncompromising insistence on simulating a BattleMech as opposed to making twitch shooter times, which is fairly noble in the current business climate. They could have sought a larger audience by making it less, well, MechWarrior, and they chose not to. They chose instead to find their audience, and damn the torpedoes. I had a lot of fun "researching" while we put the project together; it's not inconceivable that you may like it also.

So, there's two things to mention. The first is that The Vault Of Winter, Part Three is now available.

Today is December 11th and that means we've hit a few shipping deadlines today. If you want to get something from the Penny Arcade store and you want it delivered before Christmas you should be sure and consult this list:

I like Acquisitions Incorporated a lot. On some level, it was an advertisement I suppose, but I think it's one of the good ones and the kind of thing I'd be getting up to anyway. The series we're doing now isn't work for hire, or a partnership along the lines of Scott's Table Titans - this one's on the house, which is no doubt bad business, but we can't leave these characters well enough alone. Anything official this year is a part of their Underdark push anyway, and the characters in Vault of Winter basically go to the polar opposite of that.

We've always wanted to make a longer form comic with Acquisitions Incorporated, and with the holidays coming up we had an opportunity to drop it in. I think it's, like... eight comics, and it could have been longer, but I we decided that was sufficiently ridiculous. And we have a very high threshold for ridiculousness. So think about that.

Issue 3 of our Lookouts comic book is now available online via Comixology and in stores. I think this is probably my favorite issue so far. In it we learn Voel’s back story and get to see the boys take on the bridge troll.

We did not expect to have these done in time for the holiday season but they showed up in the warehouse yesterday. So now our newest figurine is on the store and ready for your buying. It is actually a set of two that come in one box. They are based on the 16-bit Tycho and Gabe sprites from RSPD. We thought they would look cool as 3D figures and I think they came out great.

Because World of Warcraft is A DISEASE, it's no real surprise that it managed to leap off of Gabriel somehow and onto his mom, who has begun to show symptoms. Thus another of the High Houses meets its end.

Okay, so, now the Alienware he purchased is giving him the same kinds of trouble every computer always gives him eventually. This is after sending two machines in a row back to iBuyPower and then buying the new machine in a blind rage, imagining that he could outrun his own devastating electromagnetic field by switching vendors.

We have almost reached December so we should probably talk about shipping deadlines. If you want to get stuff from the PA store as gifts and you want them to show up before Christmas, here’s what you need to know. Holiday Shipping Deadlines: For delivery before Christmas, make sure you place your order by midnight on these shipping deadlines:

We used to have a private Minecraft server, but maintaining one of those and hosting a curated selection of that community's prodigious mod output can take as much time as you let it, and I think that ultimately we decided that it was a "time eating machine what eated up our time." So Gabriel the Younger started connecting to public servers, which marks the crossing of so many thresholds at once that it's the sort of moment you collect for posterity.