When the guys at Penny-Arcade announced that they were releasing a game based on their personas, there was a mix of excitement and trepidation across their fanbase. Penny-Arcade is an enterprise founded on dick jokes, video game humor, and, well, integrity. You get the feeling reading both the comic and their regular musings that they The Guys Who Will Play It Straight with you, the ones who are willing to look ridiculous or be proven wrong if it’s the right thing to do. This, combined with their self deprecating charm, has taken them from gaming schlubs to internet icons over the course of more than 8 years. The announcement that they would enter an arena that has been the source of years of scorn and comic material would put more than a few questions on the tip of any reasonable tongue.

And yet, for months, I’ve felt as though the situation is a tightrope they’ve walked gracefully. They don’t pimp the game on their page very often, save for when they’ve reached a substantive milestone, and they generally let the game speak for itself. I’ve defended them in private and on the nets, as I’ve felt that they’ve earned some leeway to try to make this thing that they care about without charges of sellout or hypocrite. Unfortunately, they’ve officially done quite a bit today to lose a lot of that respect from me.

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No, the preview I wrote is not going to be posted here. I wrote a full length preview for 1up.com that you should check out if you are interested in this game. Despite the trailers that were abysmally received a while back, the game is shaping up really, really well. The writing is superb, the graphics are very stylized, and the blend of RPG battles with point-and-click adventure is sure to get most any gamer’s nerd-sense tingling.

Check it out here.

Chufmoney

If you read our website often, you know that we love us some shooters. We are avid Rainbow Six Vegas fans, and play pretty much most any game that makes us look down the site of a rifle. Keeping that in mind, let me say that we were a little perplexed at the amount of shooters slated for release in the next six months.

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We’re off to PAX! We should have some interesting news and photos coming your way soon enough. We’re doing the 12 hour doom drive … it is currently 6:42 AM. So hopefully, if i can get the other two people going with me to actually get the hell out of bed, we can be in Seattle around 9pm. Sigh…9pm.
Anyhoo, if posting seems slow over the next couple of days it’s because we’re getting some original stuff to post about! Look here soon and you’ll see the fruits of our labor!

Chufmoney