Penny Arcade

The seal has been broken, and now, the revelations:  Every two weeks - beginning Friday, October 30th and ending December 13th - there will be new product releases.  From Acquisitions Incorporated to Gabir Motors to WASD, you will discover things to 1. Shroud your mortal form, 2. Improve the ambiance and maybe even the aroma of your space, and 3. Reward players in your next campaign. (*cough* Campaign Coins *cough*) And know this!  You can expect free shipping on Orders Over…

(At this point, continuing to demand that Cyberpunk get released this year is just dumb. I'd celebrate a delay if I thought it meant a material easing of the process for the people caught inside it, but the last delay certainly didn't and I don't think this one will either. When I was a new father, learning how to feed a child, I did so according to a clock that I'd set to make sure they were getting enough to eat. I was cautioned against this by the midwife, who taught me…

The threshold of my mind, the point where thoughts are converted into shapes others can perceive, performs a number of helpful services. It's essentially a programmable gate. Right now, and I hadn't intended to write this before, it really wants me to make sure that's how you spell the word "perceive." One of the other things it does is convert the internal concepts I have for things into the ones more people are likely to recognize. That's one of the funnier things about…

I was curious enough about Immortals: Fenyx Rising to investigate the demo they released on Stadia last week. Logging in with my google account was simple and within seconds of clicking on the game in a Chrome window, I was loading into the demo. The game itself is beautiful and the combat is cool but poorly mapped to a controller. I probably could have played more of it if not for the obnoxious tone of the entire experience. Playing Immortals: Fynx Rising is like watching a low budget CG…