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News: new paintings
Mon, 10/20/2008 - 14:41Gabe : I'm still working on a Samus piece but I am learning the importance of having multiple paintings going at once. While one is drying I can be working on another! So I picked up some small canvases and did a couple more little paintings over the weekend. These were a lot of fun. -Gabe out
Categories: Web Comics
News: Prince of Persia
Mon, 10/20/2008 - 13:41Gabe : So our big Fallout 3 project just wrapped up and our new project for Prince of Persia just kicked off. Pretty good timing. We're fortunate that we really get to pick and choose what games we create these Penny Arcade Presents projects for. Every year we end up turning down way more than we accept. Fallout was obviously a game that Tycho had a real passion for. It was fun for me as well since it was my my first experience with that world. I ended up really digging the setting and the idea of the vaults. This new project ...
Categories: Web Comics
Comic: A Valid Line Of Inquiry
Mon, 10/20/2008 - 03:00New Comic : A Valid Line Of Inquiry
Categories: Web Comics
News: A Valid Line Of Inquiry
Mon, 10/20/2008 - 03:00Tycho : Golden Axe: Beast Rider isn't a good investment, on any axis of assessment. Also, the title is ambiguous. These are the things I spent all weekend thinking about: - As you reach the culmination of Dead Space, it begins to take on a shape much more akin to quote survival horror than previous. The store that seed so friendly and inviting in a long-gone idyllic Golden Age becomes black altar of greed and usury, a grasping, mercenary savior with a coin slot. The game only improves as you progress, and Dead Space - as good as it is - is ...
Categories: Web Comics
News: Spectromancer Is Now On Greenhouse
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 14:36Tycho : I've been playing the open beta of Spectromancer for months - even pre-release, it was a game that managed to find its way into any spare moments at the keyboard. A game of wizardly battling (yes!), it combines tactical unit placement with judicious use of clever, wildly varied powers. The strategic depth on display here is something I really urge you to investigate, and I'm honored to have it on Greenhouse. It features a full single-player campaign in addition to hotseat, LAN, and online play. If you have something you really need to get done today, downloading the demo would ...
Categories: Web Comics
News: Brutal Diplomacy
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 03:00Tycho : After hearing that some Best Buy stores were breaking the street date for LittleBigPlanet, we indulged in a fantasy that we would enter that infinite blue cube and secure one for ourselves. Calling the store, the young man on the other end informed us that, yes, they had like a hundred and fifty of the Goddamned things, and no, they weren't selling them. We resigned ourselves to this living nightmare, shuffling from hour to hour like men who wait for death. This was when October Twenty-Second still represented release - the release of the title itself, as well as our ...
Categories: Web Comics
News: What? New Garments?!
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 17:40Tycho : Yes, it's true. It's almost... self-explanatory, in its self-explanatoriaety. (CW)TB
Categories: Web Comics
Comic: The Breaking Point
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 03:00New Comic : The Breaking Point
Categories: Web Comics
News: The Breaking Point
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 03:00Tycho : The costume here referenced is a real thing, and conversations about canon and apocrypha as they relate to children's garb generated the strip. Without going into cloying, interminable detail, being a father is pretty fucking sweet. Because my computer has been gone so long, the time I spent in Warhammer has taken on a kind of Autumnal glow, with sunlight easing its way through orange leaves. A lot of the coverage of Warhammer is actually coverage of World of Warcraft, in the same way that Rock Band and Guitar Hero coverage is densely commingled. I'm as guilty of it as ...
Categories: Web Comics
Comic: The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part Two
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 03:00New Comic : The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part Two
News: The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part Two
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 03:00Tycho : I used to see Chris Remo at virtually every industry event I attended - this was back when I attended industry events. He was always in the same spot: camped out low against some wall, laptop open, the perpetual newsman. I know that the intersection of DRM and the PC gaming community is a nexus of interest to him, and I wanted to offer up a space to collect his thoughts. - (CW)TB I've been reading Penny Arcade since it was mainly about the PC, the gaming system I grew up with, and a system that still holds a lot ...
Comic: The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part One
Wed, 09/24/2008 - 03:00New Comic : The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part One
News: The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part One
Wed, 09/24/2008 - 03:00Tycho : With his wavy locks and hard-ass goatee, Brian Crecente brings a venturesome, tremendously Zorro quality to games journalism. As Managing Editor of Kotaku, our paths tend to cross alot. He's good people, and I was curious what he'd have to say on this week's topic. Turns out he's kind of a poet. - (CW)TB Digital Rights Management is gaming’s own little Ouroboros: A snake in the grass consuming itself, a seemingly endless problem without beginning, end or solution. As long as there are creative works people will want to buy them, protect them and, yes, even steal them. Even ...
News: Moichandise
Mon, 09/22/2008 - 16:08Tycho : We just did a huge restock, so a lot of stuff is ready to go. In particular, these things may intrigue slash delight you: Available in men's or women's. Also available in men's or women's! (CW)TB
News: Honesty
Mon, 09/22/2008 - 13:16Tycho : I would say that your paintings are, in general, far more honest than your digital output. What I mean by this is that you are a liar and your "work" constitutes a suite of hostile, spiteful acts against the viewer and humanity itself. Those who have the misfortune of viewing your ordinary work - and I believe "ordinary" is the correct term - become less human as a result. (CW)TB
News: Painting number 3
Mon, 09/22/2008 - 13:09Gabe : I've still been painting most nights and I'm learning a ton. I suppose I could try and take a class or something but I've always figured that learning by doing is the best way to go. You make a lot more mistakes but there's value in that process. This latest painting for example got completely painted over three times I think. I know it's a pretty simple piece but it was really fun to do. I learned a lot about blending and mixing colors on this one. I also learned the importance of priming the canvas. This latest piece is ...
News: The Christmas In September
Mon, 09/22/2008 - 03:00Tycho : Gabriel's birthday has an epicenter, and its effects flow out, so that the week before and after these interminable coronations represents an grim kind of season, devoted to the cursed day of his birth. We suggested during last year's comic and post that we would reveal how this holiday is celebrated in other countries, and in a rare kept promise, we have done so. We've known about this "Bejeweled in WoW" thing for awhile, long enough to have considered it for the strip we would draw at PAX, but after simmering the concept for nearly an hour we gave up. ...
