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Nintendo taps Penny Arcade for Skyward Sword comic
Nintendo wants to get attention for its latest, family friendly Wii adventure. What to do, what to do. Oh, perhaps hire the dudes who have created Penny Arcade to make a more-often-than-not mature comic about it! Score!
Actually, I’m not kidding. Nintendo has tapped Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik to create a five page comic for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword that will appear each week over the next few weeks on the official website…
Registrations open for PAX Prime, new event aimed at developers
Just when you think you can take a breather from last March’s PAX East, here comes another one! Indeed, registrations for PAX Prime in Seattle, Washington are officially open.
Play Rock Band for Child’s Play charity at Ümloud
‘Tis the season of giving and sharing, but also of partying. And one way you can do both at the same time is by playing Rock Band at a hot nightclub in the name of charity. Ümloud! is a yearly concert held in San Francisco to raise money for Child’s Play, a charity founded by the immensely famous webcomic Penny Arcade. This year Ümloud! returns to San Francisco for another concert to raise money for some sick kids.
Get a Penny Arcade-designed belt in Dragon Age II
Dragon Age: Origins had tons of epic weapons, armor, and other gear for people to collect. No doubt that Dragon Age II will be the same. I’m already thinking about what kind of wicked swords and staves they’ll have available. And of course, the shiny, shiny armor. But what about lesser gear…such as belts?
Telltale’s crossover game is about poker
Earlier this week, Telltale Games teased us with a video starring four characters from different games. Tycho from Penny Arcade Adventures, Max from Sam and Max, The Heavy from Team Fortress 2 and Strong Bad from Homestar Runner would somehow find a way to gather in the same place. There will be no team deathmatches or mysteries to solve this time. All these characters want to do is play poker.
Telltale planning the ultimate crossover
Penny Arcade Expo East returning to Boston through 2013
East Coasters rejoice! The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority has signed an agreement that guarantees Boston will be the home of Penny Arcade Expo East for the next three years.
PAX Prime, as the original event has been dubbed, has been held in Washington (state) since its inception in 2004. The event has become such a success over the last several years that a second PAX was needed to accommodate the eastern half of the US. Thus, PAX East was created in March 2010, held in Boston.
Music games helped turn developers, gamer friends into rock stars
We have all heard about the Cinderella story of a musician from a small town turning into a rock star and getting tons of fans. For most people who like to sing or play in a band in their spare time this idea is farfetched but for a group of developers, things turned out differently.
Five bands made their debut at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) East this past weekend and all of them have something in common, at least one of their members works at Harmonix, creator of games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Some of the bands played small clubs now and then but after their music was included in those games, they were catapulted to rock stars. For The Main Drag, Anarchy Club, The Konks, That Handsome Devil and Death of the Cool, the passion for games made a way for their passion for music.
Pax East will be coming back to boston
PAX East was pretty fantastic, no? In fact, it was such a success that the event will be coming back to Boston in 2011 and 2012. It was so huge that the PAX folks are actually looking for a bigger venue than the Hynes Convention Center. From BigDownload:
Child’s Play Charity garnered $1.7 million in 2009
Some really fantastic news coming from Penny Arcade today – the Child’s Play charity, which seeks to raise money for ” toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals” raised $1,780, 870 in 2009. It was a record-breaking, banner year, in which the goal was set at $1 million – which is incredible, given the state of the economy (and the abysmal unemployment rate).
