Penny Arcade

Michael Keaton returning to the role of Batman after passing through a metaphorical looking glass in Birdman is almost too much. Like so, so much now, the arc feels written. There's an unsettling level of symmetry I would say generally but specifically here. I don't know how many times art has to imitate life has to imitate art before we understand that these things are just synonymous. If you ever wonder why people want desperately to control art, it's because consciously or…

We are playing Godfall again, I think maybe it's just us. I don't know why. I have theories. This is the era where we were looking at our Digital Game Collections and we are asking ourselves if we can extract any additional nutrients from them. Gabe wasn't able to secure a PS5, and he has thus far been able to resist the lure of the reseller, so he ended up grabbing Godfall on EGS where a couple of these PS5 exclusives have ended up as a kind of consolation prize. I'm…

After a couple weeks off, Gabir Motors is returning this week. It’s true that 2020 was a rough year but getting into sim racing and the creation of the Penny Arcade iRacing league was pretty awesome. We’ve got more than 200 drivers in the league now and my son Gabe has been working on making the Gabir Motors website he built a resource for the league. Obviously I drive for the world's premiere pretend motorsports company Gabir Motors but other teams have sprung up inside the…

We make comics about resolutions but I don't know that I've ever actually made one for real. Every time I've made an effort to change it was because I was obviously fucking up and I couldn't keep fucking up in that particular way and retain dignity. I would describe these events as "frequent' but they rarely occur at the beginning or end of the year. Had an incredibly elaborate call last week about what 2021 has in store for Penny Arcade - that's how we're…