Penny Arcade

Gabe heard Titanfall downstairs, but on multiple axes - none of which made sense. His sons were playing multiplayer, which they were able to find enough players for somehow, and Kara was playing the single player campaign. The failure of Titanfall 2 is generally laid at the feet of Electronic Arts for not managing their stable of releases strategically, though there are many fans of the first Titanfall who'll say - independent of any business considerations - that changes to titan shielding…

There was a spike of normal functionality mid-week, like one might expect from a modern city, but just as soon as we'd tasted civilization it was gone again. Brenna went shopping for the End Times, like she was stocking for a radical shift in governance from something like we have now - with established channels of authority from Federal, State, and County - to a marked declension of it centered primarily around tattooed despots with shotguns on quad bikes. It has served us well. We…

I was watching Ninja stream Apex Legends this morning, and the title of the stream implied that while it had previously been a sponsored stream, he was now playing it because it's fun. I mean, I think so too. We just made another comic about it. It's had twice Fortnite's viewers on Twitch since it came out, but of course that's two-fold; the dynamics are such that you can pay a person to play your game, but you're also paying them not to play the other game for a 2x perceptual swing bonus. …

The only bad thing about Apex Legends is the name. And it's… You know. It's probably too late to change that. Since we spoke last, I have played a lot of Apex Legends. I've won twice, which for me is such a statistical aberration that it makes me want to look at the checksum for the last few days. But I'm actually not bad at their shooters, for some reason. Well, not some reason, a specific reason: even if there aren't Titans, or the radical mobility pilots have even on foot,…