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By Gabe – January 29, 2010

It is Friday and that means we have a new episode of Penny Arcade TV. This is one of our "4th panel" episodes in which we show you the trials and tribulations of the writing process. Enjoy!

The Morning After

By Tycho – January 29, 2010

That iPad presentation had to be the worst thing I've even seen on on the Apple stage. There is a part where they - I am not making a joke - there is a part where they try to make creating spreadsheets seem awesome. Jilted may be the word. Of course, we're at the second wave of commentary now, the reflexive defense phase, but I've seen this practiced arc too many times to feel its pull. Apple didn't make a case for the device.

Gwaihir In The House

By Tycho – January 27, 2010

The story about a prisoner deprived of his Dungeon Master's Guide and custom campaign world resonated. It sucks when the guards are all coming down on your shit, and, like, taking your stuff, but it also sucks pretty bad to be beaten to death with a sledgehammer, which is what this guy did to get in there. Tends to dilute the sympathy.

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PAX East Is Going To Sell Out

By Tycho – January 20, 2010

Part of the reason we opened the Eastern Front of this convention was to relieve some of the pressure on the PAX Prime, but the show has its own momentum, and it's barrelling toward Boston with full force.  What this means is that if you want to attend PAX East at the end of March, you should preregister now.  We're already looking into an expanded venue for next year - we saw at a couple solid candidates when we were out there originally, so that's already being managed.  In the meantime, though, yes.  You want to preregister.    

Sandbox D&D

By Gabe – January 20, 2010

I mentioned a while ago that I was pushing my D&D game into a new direction, that being more of a sandbox style adventure. I also said I'd answer your questions about it and now that I've got three games under my belt I feel like I can do that.

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Fundamental Assertions

By Tycho – January 18, 2010

It falls to us to explain some pretty elemental shit on occasion, a task I relish. The version I gave my own son was (for lack of a better term) rendered at a substantially higher resolution.

Moby Dick!

By Gabe – January 15, 2010

My twitter is going crazy with requests for a larger version of today's comic. How can I deny the twitterverse?

A Trend We Wholly Endorse

By Tycho – January 15, 2010

We had originally read that a new printing of Dante's Inferno was a "novelization," which implies that the game had been turned into a novel, which is untrue: the truth is actually much weirder. Tie-ins (particularly for Visceral Games, whose Dead Space could be considered a broad-spectrum new media template) would be utterly normal, dog-bites-man stuff, with a pH of seven exactly.