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Alright. So, a couple things happened.

One, the Sony Syndrome "story" is probably over. We're fond of this as an ending place for it, but we your comic masters are mercurial and delight in misdirection. One never really knows. We promise nothing, and you should expect nothing. Nothing!

The second thing is that the Spike event sort of put me off of awards for the time being. Just as a random comment, if your 2004 awards program does not include Metroid Prime 2 or World of Warcraft, it has no authority whatsoever to coronate the king of any genre. I'm not even saying that those games need to win. I'm simply stating that the games exist and are real, news which has not reached them out there on the ragged periphery of taste and intellect. It has been our annual tradition to list the twelve most delicious games of the year here at Penny Arcade, and though the odds of us telling you our favorites are actually quite high doing it the way we've done it for the last few years really sounds awful to me. To both of us, even. So we're not going to do that.

What we are going to do is present a very short children's book concerning a celestial alignment which awakens the doom that lies dead and dreaming in R'lyeh. The first page can be found here. Ia! I'm sure you'll agree that this will be a great deal more fun for everyone involved. It goes until the 27th of December, the Monday after next. This is the cover.

Child's Play: Kiko's Child's Play Shirt is, like his other work, a stunning act of design savvy. He still has a few left in the run, if you'd like to climb aboard. We're coming up on the end of this year's drive, and I have every faith that when we incorporate the gifts from the partner sites last year's high score will be defeated, and we will enter our initials.

Please consider what the games you enjoy could mean to a young person staring down a long-term illness. If you haven't given yet, it's possible you don't know: you're entirely capable of heroism. The barrier to entry is surprisingly low.

(CW)TB out.

Alright. So, a couple things happened.

One, the Sony Syndrome "story" is probably over. We're fond of this as an ending place for it, but we your comic masters are mercurial and delight in misdirection. One never really knows. We promise nothing, and you should expect nothing. Nothing!

The second thing is that the Spike event sort of put me off of awards for the time being. Just as a random comment, if your 2004 awards program does not include Metroid Prime 2 or World of Warcraft, it has no authority whatsoever to coronate the king of any genre. I'm not even saying that those games need to win. I'm simply stating that the games exist and are real, news which has not reached them out there on the ragged periphery of taste and intellect. It has been our annual tradition to list the twelve most delicious games of the year here at Penny Arcade, and though the odds of us telling you our favorites are actually quite high doing it the way we've done it for the last few years really sounds awful to me. To both of us, even. So we're not going to do that.

What we are going to do is present a very short children's book concerning a celestial alignment which awakens the doom that lies dead and dreaming in R'lyeh. The first page can be found here. Ia! I'm sure you'll agree that this will be a great deal more fun for everyone involved. It goes until the 27th of December, the Monday after next. This is the cover.

Child's Play: Kiko's Child's Play Shirt is, like his other work, a stunning act of design savvy. He still has a few left in the run, if you'd like to climb aboard. We're coming up on the end of this year's drive, and I have every faith that when we incorporate the gifts from the partner sites last year's high score will be defeated, and we will enter our initials.

Please consider what the games you enjoy could mean to a young person staring down a long-term illness. If you haven't given yet, it's possible you don't know: you're entirely capable of heroism. The barrier to entry is surprisingly low.

(CW)TB out.

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The two met in high school, where they collaborated on "really terrible projects," Mr. Krahulik said. He wrote, Mr. Holkins illustrated, and they left their "bad superhero" booklets in comic book shops in the hope that someone would pick up a copy.

Click Does it make you feel like a BIG MAN to bold your links like that??

Because it would have been so much better if Micro$oft didn't save Bungie from bankruptcy? You would rather that no one play Halo 1 instead of it being playable on the Xbox and later other systems? That's just foolish.

As always, Penny-Arcade summarizes your point perfectly

The guys at Penny Arcade analyzed this very subject with humor. And hitted the nail in the head, IMHO.

"as far as I know they use linux to code ps2 games didnt you knew that?"

First off, when did Linux become a programming language?

Secondly, what's the point of using open source software when you need to sell your soul to get the SDK? I've tinkered with a lot of homebrewed PS2 software and none of it involved getting Sony's SDK or even "Linux (for PlayStation 2)" as far as I can tell.

"and every geek I know has a soft spot for cool electronics and thats what sony is all about,"

Then I'm correct in assuming you own an HDTV? Either I'm not a geek, or geeks are more interested in fun toys more than they are in "cool electronics." The people who go after "cool electronics" seem to be the ones who slap stickers all over their Honda Civics.

"No offense guys but Nintendo is the Walt Disney of the videogames world"

If Nintendo were Disney, there would be no new games featuring these characters. Instead, they'd be locked in a vault somewhere with Nintendo sueing the crap out of anybody who even mentions their trademarked propeties, and their main source of profit would be from producing games with stories that rip off the public domain. The reason Mario is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse is because Mickey hasn't done anything for the past 50 years or so.

No, in reality we have people complaining that Nintendo is using their old characters in too many new games. Square Enix is the company that wants us to buy Final Fantasy Origins again barely 18 months later. That's Hollywood thinking.

"(in case you didnt knew family games are the ones who make the most money!)"

Which is why the GameCube is trouncing the PlayStation 2 in sales...

" you can even compare them and their business practices to MS at some point."

Which is why the GameCube is trouncing the PlayStation 2 in sales...

Heck, if Nintendo were so similar to MIcrosoft there'd be no point in Gates wanting to buy them. Why "embrace and extend" when you're already there?

"You cringed all over when MS tried to make all windows users pay an annual fee,"

How long ago did the GCN come out? Or the SP?

Again, Sony is the company that seems to be looking for annual fees. Want a PS2 that you can turn off with the remote? Buy a new PS2. Progressive-scan DVD playback? Buy a new PS2. A four-player adapter that works in both PS and PS2 games? Buy a new PS2. It's getting to the point where buying a second PS2 is less a luxury and more an upgrade.

"but you just smiled when Nintendo forced everyone to buy 4 gameboys for a four player game"

Sounds familiar...

Nintendo didn't force anybody to buy four Game Boys because everbody could bring their own, and everybody already owns their own Game Boy.

"when they could have made a cool multiplayer online game instead,"

Instead we got a game with a plot and a storyline, a game without camping, without internet fuckwads, without monthly subscriptions and a game we'll still be able to play in five years. Damn you, Nintendo!

"geek is cool"

War is peace! Freedom is slavery!

Geek is not cool, geek is liking what you like without thinking about whether or not it's cool. Game awards shows on Spike are cool, because they followed all the coolness rules.

"Just to beat some sense to you consider this the DS is a double screened gameboy with a nintendo 64 chip in it. the second screen is a cheap touchscreen from a palm, at the end you are just getting a cheap palm."

On the one hand, you say I'm getting a handheld version of a system I still love. On the other, you say I'm saving money compared to what Palm would be charging for a platform with far fewer games I'd be interested in. Where exactly is the downside in that?

"Why they didnt made a portable gamecube with a mi

You can check out Tycho's version of events at Penny Arcade, though it's an usually weak cartoon today so maybe you shouldn't bother...

Damn Martians!

As usual, they've commented on it already:

Penny-Arcade on Doom Movie

If you're a gamer (or even if you're not) you should check out Child's Play. It's a charity set up by the Penny Arcade guys to give games and toys to kids in hospitals who need them.

Last year (the first year) they raised something like $250k and really did a lot of good for the hospitals.

It's a chance for gamers to show the community what we're really about instead of being stereotyped as violent misfits living in basements.

Of course Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity.

I will tell you from personal experence that the battery life on the ds is more than 10 hours, I ran mine for 13 hours on a single charge. oh and to games not being 'adult' enought i point you here

...that's where I stopped reading.

The percieved anonymity of the internet has allowed cowards and ignorant fucks all over the world to show their true colors.

I think the Penny Arcade Vs. 'establishment' games media argument has striking parallels with the Jon Stewart's Daily Show Vs. 'real' news networks argument.

Penny Arcade has people light-heartedly talking about the way it is, not simply regurgitating obvious nonsense just like the games companies and corporations would like.

The Daily Show has people light-heartedly talking about the way it is, not simply regurgitating spin and propaganda just like the administration and its supporters would like.

I think the positive upshot of that is that the great unwashed, the mainstream public, the consumers, whatever you want to call them, seem to be finally wising up. If you publish or broadcast nonsense, spin, marketing drivel or a barrel load of cliché then it's pretty obvious that your audience is starting to leave you in favour of something more intimately connected with truth and public opinion.

Considering the ramifications of this article, I urge any of you with spare cash/games to check out Child's Play. It's a huge charity that collects video games and systems for children in hospitals, run by the folks at Penny Arcade

I normally don't plug things, but this is too relevant to the article to ignore, and it can help out a lot of kids.

Yes, everyone emulate Gabe. Brilliant.

I feel obliged:

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Oh yes. Quite relevant.

Obligatory PA

Care to inform anyone else about AMD's intent today?
What are you, on the fucking development team?

Your comments remind me of a Penny Arcade cartoon.
That's not a good thing.

As always, Penny Arcade has an appropriate comic on the subject.

Sure, some of it was blindingly obvious, but some of it was pretty subtle.

Japan, as opposed to China, apparently has no problem with video games that depict their history in not-so-glorious ways.

this self-described school has, as another reader points out, "awarded an MBA to a cat

this self-described school has, as another reader points out, "awarded an MBA to a cat

Speaking of cats, and degrees, and penny-arcade...
He's not an MCSE yet, he failed tcp/ip!

He's not an MCSE yet, he failed tcp/ip!

Am I the only one that read that thinking Penny Arcade was suing a university?

Damn, my cat only has an MCSE

Well, almost. He did fail TCP/IP.

Tycho's cat maybe got his MCSE from that place.

that didn't understand why Penny Arcade would sue them? :)

Bad Boys of Punctuation And the infamous... Mr. Period Returns

Bad Boys of Punctuation And the infamous... Mr. Period Returns

And, the return of Mr. Period.

I've come to believe that this penny-arcade strip should be made into a full-size poster and hung in schools throughout our great nation.

I'm sure the viewer overlap is quite large between /. and PA, but the Mr. Period cartoons seem appropriate (WARNING: Explicit material. Funny, but explicit).

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I'm sure the viewer overlap is quite large between /. and PA, but the Mr. Period cartoons seem appropriate (WARNING: Explicit material. Funny, but explicit).

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with mr. period http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-11 -03 . Many people could get some good pointers from it!

Looks like they need some help from the Bad Boys of Punctuation!

If Micro$oft made a handheld console it would be as large and heavy as a brick.

Yeah, those 5 oz bricks are pretty hefty.

Penny Arcade

This should explain everything.

Why not link to the news post so that people can actually read their review. kthx bye.

PA has a great review of PoP:WW, and a really funny comic on this.
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