Penny Arcade

I like Devolver. I mean, yeah. They definitely have a thing. It might best be described as a "kink." I tried to find the particular phrasing I had used once before, but I think I might only have used it in my mind: Devolver often publishes the kinds of games your parents would hate. One of the sacred tasks of the creator is to lash parents. Imagine that as a genre. Gabe was vibrating in his extremities when I got into the office, he had something on his Switch, and I told him he…

Okay, so, now he's done with voice chat? When he just instantiated the policy?! Yes. Now you know the torments I writhe beneath. Now you know his scourge! I think his getting off the microphone was the first step in a generalized malaise about the genre itself. Whenever I try to play an MMO these days, even though I think they've generally gotten more humane than they once were, they're all trying to push the same button my brain and that button doesn't work anymore. It's kind of sad;…

I’ve been playing a ton of Sea of Thieves lately with my family. The four of us have been playing off and on since launch but in the last month or so we’ve been playing nearly every day. It’s a great game but it’s also an incredible team building exercises for a family. When we first started I will admit we had some frustrating experiences. My boys are 14 and 8 and I love them very much but getting them to work together can be... challenging. Sea of Thieves really requires you to work…

At lunch, while Kiko and I took turns attacking the banchan, we tried to get Gabriel to try Crackdown 3. I'd never been able to get Gabriel to try the other ones, but because Crackdown was free with Game Pass (here, "free" means "ten dollars a month") it seemed like we might finally have him cornered. He did download it, which I appreciated, and he also hated it, which I expected. There's a similar dynamic at play when one attempts to make a child eat something green; somewhere, deep down,…