Posts Tagged “penny arcade”

On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One

May 27, 2008

Video games, webcomics about video games, video games about webcomics about video games, webcomics about video games about webcomics about video games. What a world! Penny Arcade’s mouthful of a game is, as you’d expect, aimed squarely at fans of the comic. It’s an adventure/RPG hybrid whose pleasure comes not from the gameplay itself, but (…)

The tastemaker

April 16, 2008

When I was ten years old my VideoGames magazine subscription was suddenly replaced with Electronic Gaming Monthly. It was, as I recall, sudden and unexplained — one month VideoGames simply didn’t come, and EGM took over as though nothing had happened.1 I distinctly remember it happening, too; the first issue I got was #89, and (…)