Our Merchandise Manager, the incomparable Lidija Piper, has given me a code for the store. The code is KTHRISSMAS. It will give you fifteen percent off. That's real good. The only question is what you're gonna do with it.

When we wrote the strip, what I said wasn't true - but when I went into the Epic Games Launcher just now to poke around for SuperGiant's new roguelike Hades, it looks like it?

The cards in a given Keyforge deck are pulled from the whole set, and the names are generated by some kind of computerized madness. Occasionally it's lead to some, uh… Hm. There's a standing offer by multiple retailers I know where they just replace your deck if it turns out to be named in an incredibly offensive way, but if I were them I woulda been much more careful with my corpus. Most names are just goofy though and I suspect we could make comics like today's for quite a while and still find it amusing.

The Keyforge discussion is very long and I won't be able to do it right now because I have only partial access to my brain and also I was up playing Kill Team with some Germans until three o'clock in the morning.

It was the first 'frame he'd ever made from blueprints, so I think he might have been extra excited to wear it? In any case, paying to accelerate time is a core freemium notion and even though it's not efficient to pay for something that would happen anyway, it does allow a very particular, very limited form of Time Travel.

We've popped in and out of Warframe a few times - typically when it's arrived on a new platform and we want to check it out, but sometimes it's just to see where it's gotten to.

Lidija sent them over to me, and now I reveal them with a dramatic flourish!

The only game by Tetsuya Mizuguchi I haven't played is Tetris Effect. Miz, as he is sometimes called, possibly, I think I read that somewhere, was behind games like Space Channel 5, Rez, Luminez, and Child of Eden so he sits at a nexus of gaming that's always been a fixture for me - where music and gameplay are muddled with ice, lime, and a few sprigs of fresh mint.

I reconfigured the basement to be more conducive to Virtual Reality, and it has seen a spike in usage, but it never really went away. My house is a place other children go to explore these realms and has been since before the advent of retail VR. Gabe generally can't access them because his frail, rodent body revolts against the sensory input in what you might describe as "a vomit way." Every now and then, though, games his that either don't create this effect or are so good he endures it. Beat Saber's legendary rhythm gameplay has already developed a constituency among PC players, and it's now been deposited on PSVR where Gabe can get to it. The hooks are in deep.

(Here's the comic. I'll talk about it later.)

As of last Sunday, Penny Arcade has been going for 20 years. I can honestly say that right now in 2018, I have never been more proud of the work we’re doing. To help celebrate, our designers have cooked up a selection of awesome anniversary merchandise!

I was in the beta for Battlefield 1942, back in what must have been 2002. The key to open your parachute was bound to 9 for some reason, which I thought was kinda funny. I was a dedicated fan of the franchise for years, and when we left Desert Combat for Battlefield 2 I think that when I was at my most ardent - ready squads, and novel chain of command concepts really made us feel like part of a whole.

I like Fallout a lot, and I have for a long time; I also have a pretty robust history of bouncing hard off the genre I conceptualize as "Steam Survival Darlings." It's pretty clear that this isn't meant to be "the next fallout game" in anything but the most literal sense, i.e. it's not Fallout 5, no matter how hard you might want that to be the case. You will be incredibly unhappy trying to map that desire over Fallout 76 - so unhappy, in fact, that it might just not be for you.

I got an iPad Pro back in April of this year after learning that there was an iOS version of Clip Studio. Since this is the program I do all my work in these days, I was curious if an iPad could function as my travel device. After drawing on it for about a week I loved it. I didn’t just decide to use it when I travel. I started using the iPad exclusively for all my drawing.

In truth, it's Gabriel the Younger who plays more Fortnite than Elliot - but Gabriel Prime would never have deployed this kind of poetry, so it was vital that I take the fore.