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My favorite N-Gage slam is this one.

See subject.

They've covered the N-Gage in detail, making fun of it since it was announced, and this pretty much sums their position:

"I really wish that these media outlets would stop pretending the N-Gage is a real game system."

(that quote was in response to this article about the worldwide N-Gage launch and the 'parties' at different stores)

They also have this insightful comic.

-Trillian

Penny Arcade already covered this one... Or I guess you'd have to read the news post. But that's also been made fun of recently.

Penny Arcade already covered this one... Or I guess you'd have to read the news post. But that's also been made fun of recently.

Penny Arcade already covered this one... Or I guess you'd have to read the news post. But that's also been made fun of recently.

Penny Arcade already covered this one... Or I guess you'd have to read the news post. But that's also been made fun of recently.

you can take a look at what Penny-Arcade thinks of GameSpy and their last top 25 list.

Apple have appeared, without payment or request, in thousands of productions.

You forgot this one.

Wrong one. Here's the right one:

Divx=Dead?

... Divx KILLS

I just stumbled across this today and thought I'd share it.

So, are you enjoying your "source code"?

I don't know... Penny Arcade could use another angry character...

I don't know... Penny Arcade could use another angry character...

I don't know... Penny Arcade could use another angry character...

I don't know... Penny Arcade could use another angry character...

You left out this one.

While I enjoyed the graphic novel in Max Payne, I kind of hope it is a little less melodramatic this time around.

There's a Penny Arcade for every situation. God (or lack thereof) knows I'm not going to try a mod where chances are decent I'm just going to break my GBA. The mod gets point for geekness, but is definitely on the impractical side.

... I'd forgotten about this one. Thanks for the reminder.

PA said it well in their Addendum To The Manual

(Warning : contains a bad word or two)

When I put in an ob. PA link I at least make them real links.

And I'm surprised you didn't even find this one... pretty fitting for the type of stuff now.

When I put in an ob. PA link I at least make them real links.

And I'm surprised you didn't even find this one... pretty fitting for the type of stuff now.

When I put in an ob. PA link I at least make them real links.

And I'm surprised you didn't even find this one... pretty fitting for the type of stuff now.

When I put in an ob. PA link I at least make them real links.

And I'm surprised you didn't even find this one... pretty fitting for the type of stuff now.

instantly comes to mind.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-09 -20&res=l

In relation to another recent weird-science happening:

If you already knew that human beings were doing this kind of thing, by which I mean the spider-goat thing, my hat's off to you. We never heard about this shit until a week ago, which is surprising because when someone squeezes some Goddamn spider silk out of a goat's titty it's the kind of thing one expects to hear about. Industry is clacking its hideous mandibles with excitement over the applications of readily available spider silk, focused largely on the swinging and thwipping sectors of our economy. I'm making goofy jokes about it because I think that we are a young species that often fucks with things we don't know how to unfuck. It's a coping mechanism.

from Penny Arcade

SCO? RedHat? How many companies really want to be the king of search engines. There can only be one Plow King.. er, Search King.. er wait, he's already sued google, too.

It's all just reminiscent of this.

Obligatory Penny Arcade response to the Afterburner.

Time to bust out the old cartoon!
Penny Arcade goodness

Those of us who've posted here about our lack of enthusiasm for Doom III... we're not alone.

I bet Hot Topic is already selling t-shirts with the screenshots.



psssss, iD....gothic industrial is so twentieth century.....

I think this news post and this comic speak for themselves.

I think this news post and this comic speak for themselves.

I know you are trying to be funny, but if you look at windows security now verses 5 years ago you will find that its drastically improved.

Windows ATM will most likley be based on Windows XP/Embedded, which Microsoft are selling for around $3 a processor. Linux would probably cost much more than that because the bank would need to customize it for their needs and also need to pay experts to keep them running.

Windows ATM on the other hand needs no kernal patches ever time a problem is found you can just download a hotfix from their site, this requires no experts and lowers the TCO. This might also be scriptable with WSH (windows scripting host). Microsoft are not stupid if they are making a windows version for ATMs they will *Make sure* it is 100% secure.

Obvously their reputation would be at steak.

I thought I was the only one that had images of an old melted C64 slushee in a cup... /weird.

I think that is more valid than people dreaming of sitting next to a C64

...has some Fair And Balanced(tm) Phantom coverage over at their site. From their comic archives:

Dude, Woah
I Hate The Stupid Phantom

...has some Fair And Balanced(tm) Phantom coverage over at their site. From their comic archives:

Dude, Woah
I Hate The Stupid Phantom

...has some Fair And Balanced(tm) Phantom coverage over at their site. From their comic archives:

Dude, Woah
I Hate The Stupid Phantom

Is it too damn much for you to use the href tag?

It goes a little something like this:

[a href="http://www.your-link-here.com"]Clicky Words[/a]

Now. Replace the [ with angle brackets, and there ya go.

Penny Arcade Clicky Link

Whoops. URL wrapping gone bad. It's the right comic if you remove the space: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-08 -11&res=l

A better yet link to Penny Arcade

Guns don't kill people, kids who play video games do.

Oblig Penny Arcade

Ooooh! That "M$" is so clever!

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-07 -22&res=l

You mean, today?

hmm.. I don't think Enter The Matrix was overrated. T'was overhyped, but that's a whole different thing.

Of course, this is gamespy, and you know how it goes with them.

On the other hand we see how the traditional client/server system can break down if it has a significant user base and not enough bandwidth. The new Steam client hasn't allowed me to connect to a game since I installed it six hours ago. Who knows how much more data could have been transferred if all the Steam users were connected to each other and sharing their cache through a P2P network?

The next step in P2P would be to combine the swarm downloading of Bittorrent with a persistent P2P network like Edonkey2000. The Achilles Heel of Bittorrent is that it can only transfer one file at a time, and the only way to download multiple files is to open multiple instances of Bittorrent, which drains upload speed, a precious commodity among home broadband users. Some work is being done towards this goal but it currently deals with upload rates for individual downloads, and doesn't manage multiple downloads.

P2P is definitely the future, and I predict its popularity will continue to rise as more consumers sign up for broadband and start sucking down large media files like full albums and movies from corporate sites who aren't prepared for the broadband explosion.

read this

... it is a hoax perpetrated on an unsuspecting public, like fluoride or Bigfoot.

Any article mentioning Scott McCloud must of course include the views of two of my favourite philosophers.

(P.S. If you read the news article that goes with it, you'll see that the comic is actually about micropayments.)