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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Today Gabe and Tycho announced the dates for the fifth annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX): August 29-31.
Now the largest game festival in North America, PAX 2007 featured an enormous selection of panels, tournaments, concerts and other activities centered around game culture. This year’s PAX was the first held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, a move prompted by the dramatic increase in attendance. Thus far, the festival’s attendance has doubled each year: There were 4,500 attendees in 2004, 9,500 in 2005, 19,300 in 2006, and 37,000 for 2007. Attendance for the 2008 event is expected to reach forty-seven million bajillion people.
Suck it, E for All!
This past weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo was filled to the brim with not only the upper crust of nerdom, but as you can probably expect some cosplayers as well. Check out our little collection of some of the notable characters that wandered about on the show floor.
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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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Knock Sony and the PlayStation 3 all you want, but you have to give it to the company for taking chances on ideas and titles that it seems others might not have the foresight to capitalize on – games like Little Big Planet, Flow, and the upcoming MC Escher-inspired title Echochrome are just a few prime examples. The next “why didn’t anyone think of this before” title to appear on the forward-thinking PS3 is the card game Eye of Judgment.
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One of a few surprise standouts on display at PAX this weekend was the upcoming revamped take on the Turok series, simply called Turok. In development by new studio house Propaganda Games, this improved first-person shooter is actually nothing to laugh at or cast aside. Using Unreal Engine 3, it looks just as beautifully as it plays.
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To go along with versions for PC, Mac and Linux, Hothead has just announced here at PAX that the Penny Arcade game On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will be available via Xbox Live Arcade. Additionally, all coming episodes will be available as well. Other new news includes the announcement that MC Frontalot will contribute an original track for the game. Continued…
Let’s face it, first-party titles are pretty much the only thing the Wii actually has going for it. While third-party developers pump out crap title after crap title, Nintendo remains as still one of the best first-party publishers in the industry — both in sales and fun factor. So, it’s no surprise that one of the most anticipated titles for the new platform is the next step in the Metroid franchise: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. I had a chance to play the final, retail copy today, so take a look at what this game really has to offer … careful, you’re entering a no-hype zone.
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After taking a few years off, Rockstar will make a Midnight Club return on next-gen consoles in 2008 — a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version is expected to hit sometime early next year. After a last-gen overabundance of street racers, it’s refreshing to see next-gen racers improve upon the formula. Midnight Club: Los Angeles looks to be righting a lot of wrongs committed by over-eager publishers.
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In the Wii’s short life so far, it’s pretty clear what games are working and what are not. For the most part, first-person shooters don’t work. Arguably, the most popular and most-played game is still Wii Sports. So, besides a flood of mini-game titles, the other logical type of successful Wii game would be something tennis related — seeing as how most people will just play Wii Tennis. I had a chance here at PAX to grab a virtual paddle and take Rockstar’s Table Tennis for the Wii for a spin, so make sure to see what a “Wii doubter” thinks of this one.
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Yesterday, the always outspoken and respected videogame thinker Will Wheaton delivered an epic keynote speech — so epic that this was his first words: “My name is Wil Wheaton and Jack Thompson can suck my balls.” Since you may have not been here to hear it, we’ve got the full audio version of it right here. I encourage you to give it a healthy listen. Enjoy!
Quality videogame-related video content is far and few between. There are a lot of amateurs out there and then there are diamonds in the rough like Mega 64. This underground comedy group will bring videogames to life in a Jackass meets nerds mix that pretty much always hits the mark. I got a chance to sit down with the boys of Mega 64 here at PAX and get an inside look at where they’ve come from, where they are, and where they’re going. Check it out.
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