In Real Life

Space Marines Make Extremely Important Deliveries In This Poignant Video For Child’s Play

You’ll never look at interstellar soldiers the same way again after watching this video by the MAKE design studio. The creators there made the clip pro bono — producing work which looks like it took weeks, if not months, to finish — to drum up support for the Child’s Play charity started eight years ago by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, creators of mega-successful webcomic Penny Arcade.


November 8, 2011
News

Registration For PAX East 2012 Now Open

If you’re itching to get your single-day or three-day passes for the 2012 Eastern Time branch of Penny Arcade’s fanfest, then head over to the registration page. Next year will be the third year for PAX East, which is scheduled for the weekend of April 6th-8th.


September 30, 2011
Mobile

Decide-O-Tron 8000 Extrudes My 10 Favourite Games

Penny Arcade’s game-suggesting iPhone app, Decide-O-Tron, is starting to showcase the favourite games of folks perhaps familiar to gamers. They’ve got the favourites of PA’s Gabe and Tycho, Xbox 360′s Major Nelson and now Kotaku’s me.


September 9, 2011
In Real Life

A Very Huggable Charr Contemplates Manhattan

This Charr plushie just went on sale over on the Penny Arcade Store for $US35.


August 27, 2011
PC

Turns Out Penny Arcade’s Game Isn’t Dead After All

Remember when we told you that the only way you’d be able to enjoy the last two chapters of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness was buy reading through them on the webcomic’s site?


August 23, 2011
Mobile

Penny Arcade’s Decide-o-Tron 8000 Knows What Game You Should Play Next

Being the inferior meat-based life forms we are, gamers often get confused about which games they should be playing. A hardcore first-person shooter finds himself playing Bratz Ponies. It’s inexplicable. If only there were a robotic intelligence that could guide our purchases, perhaps from the creators of the most beloved gaming webcomics of all time?


August 11, 2011
News

PvP And Penny Arcade Turn The Horrors Of Game Testing Into Our Own Version Of The Office

I’ve never been a game tester, not by choice, but reviewer is often one step up from that front line in the war against game-killing bugs.


June 3, 2011
News

One-Off Penny Arcade Strip Gets A Movie Deal

In October, Penny Arcade shook things up a bit with a series of three mini-stories, each forming a cinematic opening to a larger story left unexplored. Hollywood wants to explore one of them a bit further, acquiring the rights to “The New Kid”, imagined as an animated feature.


May 7, 2011
News

PAX 2011 Sold Out Of Three-Day Passes

Getting into Penny Arcade Expo’s flagship show in Seattle, on Labor Day weekend, is notoriously difficult if you trek up there without a pass. The three-day variety for PAX 2011 is now officially sold out, according to the expo’s official Twitter feed. They’ve been processing some refunds, freeing up stock incrementally, so there’s an off-chance passes still are available. But if you waited until now to get your money down, you’re probably SOL. [Official_PAX Twitter]


April 19, 2011
News

Penny Arcade Has A Third Show (And We’re Not Invited)

Populr webcomic Penny Arcade, which already holds two gamer-focused shows throughout the year, is about to kick off a third: PAX Dev, which is an industry-only event “where digital and pen/paper game developers alike can focus on their craft”.