January 2012
1 post
News Post: Side Effects May Include →
Tycho: DAS RIGHT MOTHAFUCKAS Here is today’s strip, which I will get into momentarily, but I’ve just now realized that I could leave this graphic up and nine times out of ten it would probably be…
December 2011
18 posts
News Post: Christmas Eve D&D →
Gabe: I was asked to run a D&D game on Christmas Eve for my wife and some friends. I decided to take the opportunity to try and give them an Christmas themed adventure. I kicked around a lot of…
News Post: an update →
Gabe: I just wanted to post an update with some of the stuff that has happened over on my end with regards to all this Ocean Marketing stuff. Around midnight last night Paul sent me a mail saying…
Comic: Good Data →
New Comic: Good Data
News Post: New PATV →
Gabe: This week, on a very special Penny Arcade TV… Episode six of my life is online now. Recently it’s been wedding central around this place. This latest episode attempts to document the…
News Post: The Maestro →
Tycho: I wore the only sweats I had one day, ancient sweats, because I had to go to the gym and be debased by a man I’m ostensibly paying to improve me. Their coating of wholly undefined materials…
News Post: SW:TOR →
Gabe: I quit playing the Star Wars Beta months ago because I didn’t want to spoil the game for myself. I think that statement alone says a lot about the sort of MMO Star Wars is. Now that the game…
News Post: It Ain’t Even About The... →
Tycho: These people are catching whatever you have and they are getting SICK. You are catalyzing the end Goddamn times! (CW)TB
Comic: Blurb →
New Comic: Blurb
News Post: Cryptozoology →
Tycho: The second of three Industrial offerings summoned by my cohort had arrived, this time from Cryptozoic. If you aren’t already familiar with them, either via their incredible World of Warcraft…
Comic: Cryptozoology →
New Comic: Cryptozoology
News Post: Scalzification →
Tycho: The first of three outsourced strips arrives today, courtesy of longtime friend of the site John Scalzi. When I say longtime friend, what I mean is that he gave us money at one point, which…
Comic: Scalzification →
New Comic: Scalzification
News Post: Usurpers, Plural →
Tycho: It’s true. Gabriel has ensconced his family in flying steel and launched himself toward warmer climes, and he has left the rudder in my capable grip. In reality, a series of guest works from…
News Post: Dickerdoodles 2011 →
Gabe: It’s that time of year again kids! DICKERDOODLES 2011! So get into the kitchen and start sending me your amateur cookie porn!You should all know how this works by now. I want your photos of…
News Post: The Conflux, Part Seven →
Tycho: Ooooooh. So that’s what he meant. I hope that you’ve enjoyed the series, as we had no real plans to make one. It just turned out this way. This strip is probably more honest than I prefer to…
News Post: PAX is Hiring! →
Gabe: We are looking to hire a special events manager for PAX. This person would actually be working at the Reed Exhibitions (our PAX partner) corporate office in Norwalk, CT. You can get all the…
News Post: New Episode Of Penny Arcade: The Series →
Tycho: Here it is; it concerns The Enforcers. (CW)TB
News Post: Tribes Codes = All Gone →
Tycho: I’ll see if I can get some more.
(CW)TB
November 2011
16 posts
News Post: Holiday Deals! →
Gabe: We have a few special deals going on in our store that I wanted to share with you all. -Starting today and going until midnight on Monday, all of our posters are half off! -We have a brand new…
News Post: The Conflux, Part One →
Tycho: Gabriel put his Dungeons & Dragons campaign on hiatus almost a year ago, which happens, and is more often than not a euphemistic device for “never playing again.” He wants to fight that…
Comic: The Conflux, Part Two →
New Comic: The Conflux, Part Two
Comic: Remember, Remember →
New Comic: Remember, Remember
News Post: 10,000 Star Wars: The Old Republic... →
Tycho: They gave us a huge pile of these, more or less out of the blue, and we’ve never had to do anything like this before. So Kenneth whipped up a little machine that will dispense a code in…
Comic: Mitigated →
New Comic: Mitigated
News Post: Last Week For Season 2 DVD Preorders →
Tycho: A brief repost follows. Any preorders received before 11/20/11 will be signed by everybody here, just like last time around. Here’s one of the bonus episodes, which is something like a Fourth…
Comic: Thulsa Broom →
New Comic: Thulsa Broom
News Post: Skyrim →
Gabe: I never got into any of the previous Elder Scrolls games. I could never get past the graphics which as Tycho likes to say “has kept me from enjoying a great many things.” I just always thought…
News Post: Posebook →
Gabe: As I’ve said before Stephen Silver has been one of the biggest influences on my work. I am a huge fan of his stuff and I’ve learned a lot over the years by studying his work. He approached me…
News Post: Deliverance →
Tycho: As another data point in a growing set correlated with the fact of my advanced age, “modding” once meant creating your own game. Now modding almost invariably means actively ruining games for…
News Post: Child’s Play Auction →
Gabe: Back in 2007 Blizzard gave away a really cool bronze statue to all their employees. It was a smaller version of the massive Orc on a Wolf statue that graces their courtyard. These are really…
Comic: Working Conditions →
New Comic: Working Conditions
News Post: New Laser Cell →
Gabe: Our newest limited edition Laser Cell is now available in the PA store. This particular one features the Lookouts and you might remember it as the cover to the PAX East guide last year. In…
News Post: Penny Arcade The Series, Season 2... →
Tycho: Any preorders received before 11/20/11 will be signed by everybody here, just like last time around. t Here’s one of the bonus episodes, which is something like a Fourth Panel that didn’t…
News Post: Child’s Play 2011 →
Gabe: The Child’s Play 2011 season officially started yesterday! We kicked things off this year with an incredible new website design that should make keeping up with all the different CP events…
News Post: Surprise Ending →
Tycho: Having been harrowed by various modes of Halloween Party exposure, a strip like this was almost a certainty. I’ve mentioned before how I rarely to get to choose the platform I play on; I…
October 2011
17 posts
News Post: Penny Arcade: The Game, Gamers vs. Evil →
Gabe: The brand new Penny Arcade card game is now available in our store. This is a deck building game along the lines of Dominion or Ascension that uses characters and art from all 12 years of…
News Post: Fibocracy →
Tycho: Everybody is screwing around with Fitocracy at the office it seems like, or the beta of it, which Gabriel managed to wheedle an invitation for. It’s a social/gamification engine designed to…
News Post: PAX D&D Live Video →
Tycho: We did it again! We made Dungeons and Dragons into a stage show at the last PAX, which you can see here. Many thanks to Wizards of the Coast, particularly our DM Chris Perkins, who is seen…
Comic: The Menagerie →
New Comic: The Menagerie
News Post: Penny Arcade: The Series, Season Two... →
Tycho: Just like last time, everybody here will sign all the Season 2 preorders. There are several ways to get it: you can preorder the set itself, which is fresh, and looks like this. You can also…
Comic: Priority Override →
New Comic: Priority Override
News Post: Twofer →
Tycho: The “rumor” is that the protagonist of the last three Assassin’s Creed games - Ezio Auditore de Firenze - will be making an appearance in Soul Calibur V without a trip into the character…
Comic: The Heresiarch →
New Comic: The Heresiarch
News Post: Maybe Not Every Toy →
Tycho: Here is the strip. We were at GDC for something or other a few years ago, and the same dude kept winning awards - over, and over, and over. It was approaching comical levels, and the…
Comic: Maybe Not Every Toy →
New Comic: Maybe Not Every Toy
News Post: The Line →
Tycho: The strip is here. We like it. But you also might need it for… something else. Meet Elonka Dunin. Longtime game developer at Simutronics Corp, creator of GemStone, DragonRealms, CyberStrike…
News Post: Demographic Mismatch, Part Two →
Tycho: New strip’s here. Part One of James’ PAX story is here. Part Two begins… now!That’s why, at 2:55 PM on Saturday, August 27th, I was more nervous than I’d ever been in my whole life. With a…
Comic: Demographic Mismatch, Part One →
New Comic: Demographic Mismatch, Part One
News Post: Humble Indie Bundle →
Tycho: I already own Frozen Synapse, but I could gift it; I really wanted Trauma, which I saw at GDC a few years ago but it never seemed to come out. It was like a Photosynth of a nightmare. Now…