Penny Arcade

It's always a novel experience to wake up on Monday and remember that a news post is required. A lot has happened! Holy shit. Uh… Let's see. We announced our Magic: The Gathering show, The Magic Hour in the fleeting moments before last night's Acquisitions Incorporated game. That felt novel, also. It's gonna be a real weird show and I hope that's alright. I'll get the trailer up for you when it hits the channel; I think this one made it to the show on a jump drive. If you're…

It's day one of PAX Prime as I tip-tap this post on the bed, get some kissy pins on my Lanyard, and make my way down to Benaroya Hall which is much, much too nice a place to have someone like me in it. Our kids are now at a point where they can attend PAX and actually enjoy it, but even beyond that, Noah actually wanted to cosplay the event which Gabriel did his absolute best to enable. We've worked with our friend Dani Hartel on a heap of really sophisticated props and costumes, but even…

It's hard to project oneself beyond the dense, high wall of experiential variables PAX West represents, but we can try; maybe we can establish a conceptual base camp on the other side and work our way toward it. The form that is currently taking is the list. My list deviates somewhat from his - Spider-Man is a game I would gladly watch him play, I think Insomniac is gonna get the melee to a good spot, but if I'm gonna lose myself in the music, the moment, it's probably gonna be in Dragon…

I was talking to JP the other day about Path of Exile, because I knew that was one of his many fascinations and I wanted to get some advice from someone who was maybe a little nuts about this shit. I'd been playing a bit and having a good time, but when you see PoE's Skill Tree - which you might recognize instinctively as something like Final Fantasy's sphere grid - you might start to feel a little light headed. He responded to my earnest queries as though I were considering taking up…