I think that I understand absolutely every position on No Man's Sky, regardless of what my avatar might have related in the strip. I said that it was a personality test, but I didn't say exactly what I meant by that. There is a type of game called a Walking Simulator, it's not an ennobling term. Functionally what it means from a rhetorical perspective is a "non-game." The fissure that terminology exposes is substantial: there are people who do, and who do not, perceive exploration as…
See Acquisitions Incorporated in Theaters!
Wizards of the Coast wanted to put this year's AcqInc game out into theaters, which is pretty wild to think about. I have tried to imagine explaining this to a younger version of myself: you will play Dungeons & Dragons, which is the Devil's Game, with your friends - and it will be beamed across the nation. Right? I want to see how this goes. There's even some bonus content at the beginning for theaters, plus you get a really solid Acquisitions Incorporated adventure to take home and play…
Club PA Comic Preview
Here's a tender morsel of the strip I'm sending out with the newsletter tomorrow: What is Club PA? It's more Penny Arcade, essentially; if you like what we do, we try to make it an easy decision for you. Extra strips, early content, events, store savings, and more. Take a look, and see if Club PA is right for you. (CW)TB
Groban was essentially leaking Gen Con tales for a week when he came back, or sweating them maybe; they beaded on his irregular surface. One of them was about an encounter with Margaret Weis. I should say that he had an encounter, perhaps. Judging from the particulars of his account, it's entirely possible that Margaret Weis - who must be considered fantasy royalty - had no perceptible encounter of any kind. So, I filmed an upcoming episode of my ELI5 show about a game called Atlas…
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Vacations
Lincoln City Oregon has been my family's vacation spot for almost as long as I can remember. I have been coming out here since I was pretty little and now I am bringing my…
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Play Of The Game Shirt
Celebrate with Dabe's different bird, non-infringing, game independent garment today! (CW)TB
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Meta-metafiction
We left Tycho out of the strip on Wednesdsay so he could continue to suffer at the hands of the not-men who serve Ursus Malus, who is called The Eternal Bear. I'm pretty…
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