Penny Arcade

The only reason I authorized this hateful, anti-Ballard propaganda is that it is deeply true. Ballard - and the wild, unregulated border zone known as Frelard - constitute my beloved homeland to the extent that I would defend it from an interstellar incursion. I'm not saying it would go well. Our only real hope would be that they might attack during the Farmer's Market and get something that hadn't been, like, a hundred percent pasteurized all the way. There was a point where Mike…

As is known to all, but polite to reiterate, since time immemorial PAX has offered succor to the indie developer with the power of PAX 10. If I had been smart when I was naming it, maybe I would have tried to work in something about "PAX to the Tenth Power" or something. In any event: Here are your winners! Be sure to track them down at the show, and investigate this game garden curated by a phalanx of industry professionals. Gunhead by Alientrap Mirror Drop by Ian Lilley Overload by…

We play Paladins every night. We were curious about Realm Royale at one point, which we haven't played since it launched, because we got slurped into the rest of their ecosystem somehow. Now we're in its fuckin' jaws to the extent that Gabriel is watching developer livestreams and shit. I don't know if Paladins is big or not! Sometimes you can tell if something is big because news sites talk about it all the time. It's not ironclad as a rule; they have their fetishes, like anybody else.…

And so, after going through all the stages of grief or whatever, young Gabriel emerged stronger and armed with talk show platitudes. He can now play Symmetra without a nagging pain, and with enough success that he's returned to the fold. It'll be interesting to see if the rework is enough to have her find play in the next season. The stuff I watched from dangerous avian warlord A_Seagull was incredibly communication heavy, but when it worked, the shit she can enable - for example,…