Today Hothead Games announced that the first episode of Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will be available for download May 21. It will be released on Xbox Live, as well as on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux users.
According to the press release: “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an RPG-Adventure game set in the comic-book-meets-pulp-horror-meets-H.P. Lovecraft deranged 1920s universe of New Arcadia, delivering mature and compelling entertainment to gamers via accessible episodic delivery.”
Sounds pretty cool if you ask me. As someone who enjoys a good bit of Penny Arcade comics, I defiantly will be picking it up.
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On Saturday, I attended one of the many different panel discussions at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo. While I skipped a number of them because I felt they just didn’t hold the type of people I’d want to hear opinions from – a lot of the more marquee industry notables were probably in Germany for the Games Convention – this one perked my interest because it involved the guys behind the upcoming Penny Arcade long-winded title Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One. A game I admit I had never cared about personally, but did hold a genuine curiosity toward.
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The closed system of the Xbox 360 is close to being open thanks to a a kernel downgrade by a modder known only as “Robinsod.” This all requires a lot of computer geek wizardry, but the end result is that if these modders continue to push the envelope, we could see Xbox 360s running Linux and homebrew software soon.
It would definitely be a major coup for homebrew developers if the 360 platform is pried open. For one, opening up the 360 system to Linux would allow its use as a as a MythTV box with true DVR functionality — for free — as well as an emulation platform.
The ultimate utility of any potential hacks for the average user is debatable, though. And it’s worth noting that the PlayStation 3 runs Linux out of the box.
Read: Timing Attack Tested Succesfully: Downgrade from any Kernel without CPU-Key
