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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land If you somehow missed the news that the Penny Arcade/Hothead Studios joint Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One was hitting this week, here’s your handy reminder. The debut episode of the adventures of Gabe and Tycho will set you back 1600 Microsoft Points should you buy from Xbox Live Arcade, with the Windows, Mac and Linux download a mere $US 19.95 via PA’s own Greenhouse. I’m downloading it just to find out how “adult” this “adult humour” really is. If it’s anything like the adult movies I watch and the adult situations in which I often find myself, it should be worth the price of admission.
Penny Arcade Adventures [Xbox.com]
The first episode of Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness has been officially dated for May 21, 2008, coming to Xbox Live Arcade and Windows, Mac and Linux. Cost to you? $US 19.95 or 1600 Microsoft points.
As you recall, there’s no PlayStation Network version because PSN doesn’t support Torque, with which the game is built. Full fact sheet follows the jump.
After we posted new that Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One had gone gold, many of you were wondering why the game wasn’t showing up on the Playstation Network.
PAX maybe over, but Wired’s Chris Baker has a fantastic Penny Arcade feature up that profiles Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. The piece is peppered with some nice insights — even if you are a PA fanboy. And that’s always a treat. Stuff like Krahulik saying: One time in high school, someone broke into my locker and stole my stuff, so I had to wear gym clothes for the rest of the day. I developed humour as a defence mechanism. Now I drive a fucking Mercedes.
You listening clothes thief? He’s drives a fucking Mercedes. So those who were bullied in high school have hope. PA Article [Wired Mag]
When I found out that I would be attending PAX, one of the things I was most excited about was getting a really good look at the new Penny Arcade Adventures game being put together by Hothead Games with some help from Gabe and Tycho themselves. A few trailers have been out so far and in the last two days, a website has surfaced as well as the news that the game will be coming to XBLA. Well this morning I finally got a chance to see it for myself live and in person.
More Penny Arcade news from PAX, imagine that! Hothead Games announced today that the Penny Arcade Adventures downloadable episodic game will be available over Xbox Live arcade. It will join the releases destined for Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux. Now that’s what I call hi-tech! The game is set to release in the early part of 2008. I’ll be checking it out tomorrow morning so if I can push back my hangover and get the hooker out of the room early enough, I’ll be sure to let you know what it was like.
The U.S. Army is marching on Seattle. Multiple units will be converging on the Washington State Convention $ Trade Centre to deliver their payload of interactive America’s Army game experiences to this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo. The event will see the first ever hands-on demo of America’s Army: True Soldiers for the Xbox 360, which promises a true infantry experience that focuses on the Army’s core values of teamwork, leadership, respect for life and property and the riles of engagement. Pretty sure that means no chainsaw weapon *pouts*. Visitors will also be able to participate in the Virtual Army Experience, which features a shooting mission on a fake Humvee with weapons fitted with lasers and recoil. Someone will likely lose an eye. Finally SGT Tommy Rieman will be on hand to discuss the Real Heroes program and autograph action figures for the Real Heroes line of action figures, due out in September at Toys R’ Us. Video games and action figures? Can an animated series be far behind? Find out this weekend at PAX!
