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Penny Arcade EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin: Penny Arcade Expo 2009 35 Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin' is Destructoid's surreal comedy series about videogames and gamer culture. It's pretty good. At this year's Penny Arcade Expo, Ash and I had a panel, and that was fun. Du... Here are your 2009 PAX Omeganauts 12 PAX has revealed the 20 randomly selected contestants for the Omegathon competition. Over the course of PAX 09, the contestants will be battling it out in six games: ROUND 1: Mario Kart ® Wii... Penny Arcade's Cardboard Tube Samurai a playable in Tekken 6 58 The Twitter feed tekkenbob, the official feed for Tekken 6, dropped an interesting twitpic today. Along with a tweet mentioning that he "got a sneak peek at something I can't talk about yet&... Penny Arcade scholarship open for 2009-2010 7 The generous folks at Penny Arcade have just announced that their scholarship is now open and accepting applications for the 2009-2010 academic year. The Penny Arcade Scholarship was established ... Child's Play CD 2008: great music for a cause 20 The Child's Play charity was created by Penny Arcade founders Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins back in 2003 to combat the negative stereotypes assigned to gamers by the media. Their goal, aside fr... Gabe and Tycho will appear at New York Comic Con as guests of honor 20 New York Comic Con is already the place to be if you have the hots for toys and comics -- but what about games? This year not only will feature Penny Arcade celebs Gabe and Tycho as the featured ... Get your Child's Play charity auction dinner tickets before December 5th 4 It's almost that time again. The Child's Play charity hosts a swank auction and dinner event this time of year every year to raise money for the chilluns. The whole thing goes down this year on D... Destructoid review: Penny Arcade Episode 2 26 When Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One was released, I eagerly gobbled it right up. It was brash, absurd and hilarious, exactly the sort of lampooning t... Penny Arcade Adventures Episode Two dated for October 29th 17 I quite enjoyed the first installment in the Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness series, my only beef being that it wasn't long enough (but good episodic content neve... Penny Arcade's Prince of Persia comic launches today, a total tease 2 An online Prince of Persia comic, drawn by the good folks over at Penny Arcade, has gone live today. The Web-based, 32-page comic book will be updated with new pages daily, leading up to the game... Penny Arcade Episode 2 has gone gold 12 [video]105968:456[/video]Awesomesode indeed!Hothead games has announced that the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of Penny Arcade: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 2 has gone gold. ... Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2 coming soon, have some new screens 10 The boys at Penny Arcade know how to capture both our hearts and our expendable income. After hosting the best open-to-the-public gaming event on the West Coast, it seems a perfect time to showca... PAX 08: Jerry and Mike class up their hustle 14 [video]101722:256[/video]If you did not attend PAX or the opening keynote last year, you may have heard word of how Penny Arcade rock stars Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik came out on stage -- to... PAX schedule is up and Destructoid is on it 31 The 2008 Penny Arcade Expo is still a couple of weeks away, but it seems that this event is all anyone can talk about here lately. And who can blame them? It's going to be an exciting event, pack... PAX 08: This is the map of the floor, plan accordingly 33 It's with squeals of delight that I present to you the floor plan for this year's Penny Arcade Expo, set to take place August 29 through August 31. Go look at the calendar ... that's soon! Lookin... Comic-Con 08: Liveblogging the Penny Arcade panel 32 It's all said and done, but you can check out the archived logs after the jump. A few photos from the conference and a snapshot of the exclusive Comic-Con poster are also attached.If you missed i... Penny Arcade Adventures coming to PSN 16 I loved Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness so much that as soon as I finished it, I promptly went back to the title screen and started a second playthrough with hard... Penny Arcade Adventures comes to Steam, gets new achievements 16 So, Penny Arcade Adventures? We liked it. Quite a bit, actually. However, the price and the game's length (I finished in about 8 hours) were somewhat debated after people plunked down their hard-... Penny Arcade Adventures takes the honors for highest grossing XBLA debut 45 Despite extensive bitching all over the internet that the price of the first chapter of Penny Arcade's new serial title, Penny Arcade Adventures, was too pricey for their pocketbooks, it seems mo... Penny Arcade Adventures takes the honors for highest grossing XBLA debut 45 Despite extensive bitching all over the internet that the price of the first chapter of Penny Arcade's new serial title, Penny Arcade Adventures, was too pricey for their pocketbooks, it seems mo... Destructoid review: Penny Arcade Adventures Episode One 101 I'd like to start by explaining my opinion of Penny Arcade as a comic strip, because your enjoyment of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will be, either partly or in whole, dependent on wh... Destructoid review: Penny Arcade Adventures Episode One 101 I'd like to start by explaining my opinion of Penny Arcade as a comic strip, because your enjoyment of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness will be, either partly or in whole, dependent on wh... Penny Arcade promotes their game with flamebait from their biggest critic 84 Denis Duckfat hates Penny Arcade ... and they're loving it. The ads (see gallery below) are the direct opposite of what you'd expect -- instead of using positive review quotes from gaming publica... PAX 2008 to feature Ken Levine, Jonathan Coulton, and the OneUps 25 We had a blast at PAX 2007, and Destructoid is already gearing up for a repeat performance in August of this year. The guest list is also looking pretty hot for PAX 2008.Ars Technica reports that... Penny Arcade Adventures hits XBLA next week! 44 We've been talking about Penny Arcade's upcoming game On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness since way back last year, long enough ago that I had actually forgotten about it a little. After all,... Penny Arcade announce PAX 10, an indie games showcase 23 Last year, the Destructoid team felt like PAX offered everything we could possibly want when it came to having fun at an event from screenings of classic (if slightly painful) gaming films to the... PAX 2008 tickets on sale now 91 Tickets for the Penny Arcade Expo have just gone on sale. This year's show takes place from August 29th to August 31st and three-day pass tickets are going for $40 right now for the early birds.L... Child's Play beats their $1 million goal 26 The videogame chairty Child's Play had a really good year. It seemed like gamers and game makers did their best to get behind the cause, and that has paid off. The Child's Play Web page ... Cheap Ass Gamer raises over $17,000 for Child's Play in a week! 27 Cheapy D and the fine folks at Cheap Ass Gamer have managed to pull together over $17,000 for videogame charity Child's Play. They started their own CAG Fund for Child's Play in the hopes of rais... Child's Play Charity Dinner pulls in over $225,000 10 If you didn't know already, Child's Play is a charity organized by the fine gents behind web comic Penny Arcade back in 2003. Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins created it help the kids of the Seatt... Charity auction for an epic date with an Epic Games programmer 17 Are you a charitable female that resides in the greater Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina? Are you free on the night of December 9th? No, I'm not trying to pick you up -- I'm trying to hook y... Penny Arcade, IGN enter verbal kumite, provide idiotic filler for Ol' Nexy 90 There's nothing I like more than kinky sex in dangeous situations, like fellatio in a lion's cage or bondage play with jars of scorpions and firecrackers. Since that has nothing to do with this s... Child's Play charity drive officially open 13 One of the coolest charities around (and the world's largest game charity) has just kicked off for 2007.If you didn't know already, Child's Play is a charity organized by the fine gents behind we... With Biggie dead, MC Frontalot tapped to create track for Penny Arcade game 29 Moments ago I received a press release announcing the latest work of nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot, a cut on the soundtrack for the upcoming Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of... With Biggie dead, MC Frontalot tapped to create track for Penny Arcade game 29 Moments ago I received a press release announcing the latest work of nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot, a cut on the soundtrack for the upcoming Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of... MSNBC covers video game band The OneUps 20 MSNBC has been all about the game music lately, haven't they? Today they posted a feature on the video game cover band The OneUps, covering their recent performance at the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo.... PAX 2007: On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness coming to XBLA 17 I was only about half conscious when they announced this earlier today, but the Penny Arcade guys have decided to bring their upcoming game to the Xbox Live Arcade early next year. To recap, that... PAX 2007: New On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness trailer 21 The above is the brand new trailer for the upcoming game based on the webcomic that spawned the event I'm currently at. That last sentence should illustrate just how huge Gabe and Tycho have be... Pre-PAX Primer: Destructoid interviews The NESkimos 10 We continue our series of interviews with the biggest and best game music cover bands slated to rock this year's Penny Arcade Expo concert with The NESkimos, a metal Nintendo cover band. Guitaris... Pre-PAX Primer: Destructoid interviews The Minibosses 6 In two weeks, thousands of gamers from all over the United States (and even beyond) will converge on Seattle, Washington to attend the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo, a three-day gaming festival packed w... On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness trailer; Lovecraft is the new Heinlein 15 Gabe and Tycho, the boys behind Penny Arcade, PAX and the annual charitygasm that is Child's Play, decided one day that they wanted to make a game. Unlike you, however, they apparently had... On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness trailer; Lovecraft is the new Heinlein 15 Gabe and Tycho, the boys behind Penny Arcade, PAX and the annual charitygasm that is Child's Play, decided one day that they wanted to make a game. Unlike you, however, they apparently had... Tycho and Gabe make digital debut in Penny Arcade Adventures 27 And, lo, the first episode of Penny Arcade's game, "On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness," is upon us, and I saw that it was good.Penny Arcade Adventures looks like a cartoony f... A Penny Arcade comic worth posting about 38 I'll come clean and admit it: I don't usually like Penny Arcade comics. I think their art style is cool, but many times the humor just isn't there for me. However, there are some real... A parent's side of the story, courtesy of Penny Arcade 46 Flash backwards to February 19th. You were sitting at home, probably crying, and the rest of the world was going along on its merry way. Gabe, one of the dynamic duo behind Penny Arcade was writi... Child's Play, where gamers give back 15 What's Child's Play you say? For the ignorant, yes I'm looking at you, Child's Play is a charity run by those two crazy guys over at the webcomic Penny Arcade. Child's Play i... Bunnies invade Penny Arcade 6 At the request of Ubisoft, Penny Arcade writer Gabe and artist Joe Pekar have come up with their very own comic book take on the "Bunnies can't..." advertising campaign for Rayman ... Inside the Childs Play 2006 charity event 4 Want to know how gaming insiders spend their buckets of cash? Well, for some, they use that dough for a good cause. The latest is the Penny Arcade Childs Play 2006 auction which not only rais... CheapyD's $1000 shopping spree charity 7 CheapyD may be pinching coppers, but he's got a heart of gold. To help raise money for Penny Arcade Child's Play Charity he's created a raffle with Play-Asia to give away a $1,000 Pla... Child's Play charity raises serious bucks 10 Penny Arcade has truly outdone themselves -- their 4th annual Child's Play fund raised a whopping half million dollars in toys, games, and those bound printout things for children's hospi... Child's Play once again online 5 For the past four years, Gabe and Tycho, the comic masterminds behind Penny Arcade, have run a charity drive called Child's Play that aims to provide hospitalized children with video games. T...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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