Penny Arcade

The enduring vigor of Minecraft - at once a game, a place, and platform - is something I primarily observe from afar. But I like it out here. I can look in at all the stuff, and I don't have to do anything. It's my favorite place to be. But younger people have notions about their parents' omnipotence, namely that it extends in some way through all fields of endeavor, and Minecraft is a good opportunity to show that your dad is is strong in some places and at some times and in other places…

Are you getting more emails from your family members about The Beast, and his Mark? Because I am. We've utilized it as material before, but just in case, I should firmly establish that I hail from a religious tradition that, you know, has an apocalyptic bent. I think generally it's called Pentecostal. I haven't been hooked into anything like that since '93 or so; I'm not sure where they might have gotten to by now. I have some weird voids culturally, because there were…

I think it might be sort of hard to manufacture the kind of spectacle a console launch seeks to embody if everybody is recording themselves on their phones with their headphones on. I'm not saying it's impossible but I definitely think it is less possible than usual. I had very different expectations, like a lot of people, when it came to the Xbox reveals but there are a lot of teams I've never heard of who had a chance to debut on stage, however virtual that stage might have…

I had to tap into our Technomancer Mike Buland in order to understand some advanced Math concepts for my own son's homework, except eventually he had to pass it on to his wife Amy, who has the Math Degree. She… she did it for fun. I asked her about one of the problems on a page, and she did all of them for fun. She did math she didn't have to do because it was fun. Gabriel just suffered it in silence until, I am told, he "ran screaming into the night." I would rather eat a live…